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April 25, 2008, 11:50:43 AM

I challenge all of us to pick up our cameras and shoot something white. Please don't post an old photo, challenges are for inspiring you to do something new. When you post, please let us know if you used auto white balance, custom, and any post processing you did.

White can be hard to get just right, so I think this will be a fun challenge.

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Mike Hodgson

Reply #1 - April 25, 2008, 03:30:32 PM

I shot something white fresh off the presses, hey, where's yours.? Big Grin

Never auto w/b, I always use the K, I think 5200 for this one.
Resize for web, sRGB, slight edge burn. That's all folks.

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Paula

Reply #2 - April 25, 2008, 04:27:49 PM

Pretty Mike; no swans around here. Dd is napping right now so I can't get her in white...hmmm..

I noticed 100 iso on the d200? I was looking at the d300 (online) and it says it only goes down to 200 iso. Both B&H and Amazon said this. Does the d200 go down to 100?

That's one of the negatives in the d70...well..that and old technology...but I digress.
Paula

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wildmaven

Reply #3 - April 25, 2008, 05:24:04 PM

Quote from: Mike Hodgson on April 25, 2008, 03:30:32 PM

I shot something white fresh off the presses

Oooo...pretty!!!! I love the pinks and blues mixed in with the white. I love swans. Where did you take this??

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hey, where's yours.? Big Grin

I'm at work. The only thing white here is my lab coat and my patient's bottom. Tongue

I promise I'll get something tonight or tomorrow.

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Reply #4 - April 25, 2008, 05:54:11 PM

Don't worry about the ISO on the D300, if you can manage to buy it, GET IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I used my brother's the other day, I did a portrait of him at ISO 2000, the grain/noise was excellent.
D200 has 100 ISO

Anyway, thanks for the compliments.

Taken at Springbank park, London Ontario.
Now, I hope these two survive, some jackass last year killed a pair. Only in London.
Trumpeter Swans rehabilitation program, more for nature. Big Grin

Marian, patient's bottoms, white are they not.?
*ducks, runs away*

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Reply #5 - April 26, 2008, 05:37:32 PM

Okay, here are mine. I used auto white balance, because I have no experience using anything else and I don't have a light meter. Tongue

Post processing was cropping, picking a white point, and doing a black and white conversion on the first one. Oh, and I cloned out some dust on my dirty floor, ha ha. I did not change anything else.

C&C welcome!

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Reply #9 - April 27, 2008, 10:53:32 AM

Alrighty, here's my white subject. It's not an artistic shot. It is documentary from my daughter's birthday party.
The cake was delicious by the way, it was fudgy chocolate with buttercream frosting (under the fondant).
I had to take poor Barbie to a hairdresser. She was so cute in the box with ringlets in her hair, but when I opened her she had frizzy matted hair in the back. She was a collector edition Barbie, I guess she was meant to be left in the box. I was so disappointed because I bought her especially for this cake.
Anyway, shot with auto white balance (I had to take a little magenta cast out in Photoshop, no big deal), I bounced the flash off the ceiling and wall at an angle.

Edit: I should also mention, I shot in P mode, I used the exposure compensation so the white wouldn't fool my camera into an underexposure.

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Mike Hodgson

Reply #13 - April 27, 2008, 02:45:53 PM

Here is a couple of pics of Kelvin Temp of lighting conditions.
Shooting Mode has nothing to do with Kelvin.

Concentrate on the 4th row Kelvin, from there, you can determine to lower the K in whatever the lighting condition is.

For my D200
I found that 4900-5000 in the studio using photogenics was a good choice, not 5400-5500 which was too warm.
Outside 5200, I'll double check that one.
In CS3, both jpeg and raw files can be opened in camera raw, just a slight tweak on the temp gage is needed if need be.

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