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03/09/2007 10:45:02 AM · #1 |
I drive through a valley of orchards on the way to my grandparents and I love the look that my sunglasses (polarized and very amber/almost orange tint) give to the bare fruit trees and dry grasses. Here's my thought. If I shot the orchard with my polarizer and took a shot through my sunglasses at a gray card, could I sample the color from the gray card shot and adjust the color in the regular shot to match? Is that logical? Would my outcome be like what I see through my sunglasses?
Thanks for your input! |
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03/09/2007 11:25:26 AM · #2 |
| Would it be easier to just shoot the orchard w/ your polarizer and adjust your color temp when you convert the RAW file? Seems that would give you the most latitude to adjust your photo to the color you want. |
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03/09/2007 11:26:49 AM · #3 |
buy bigger glasses and put your new sunglasses up to your camera lens, hahahaha
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03/09/2007 11:33:52 AM · #4 |
Originally posted by Jmnuggy:
Would it be easier to just shoot the orchard w/ your polarizer and adjust your color temp when you convert the RAW file? Seems that would give you the most latitude to adjust your photo to the color you want. |
This is the best, and easiest solution if you already have a polarizer.
I have done the sunglasses thing with a P&S, and it works all right, but would not work with a larger lens camera. |
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03/09/2007 11:34:50 AM · #5 |
Yes, you could shoot through the sunglasses using both a gray and white card in frame and then shoot a frame without the sunglasses and "correct" it so that the white and gray are tinted the same, then save those settings. That should give a close approximation. Let the camera meter on the gray card both times, and make sure the WB is set manually.
FYI, just doing a WB through your sunglasses will move things in the opposite direction. Example: if you shoot a gray card through a bluish filter, the camera will have to boost red to make grays neutral. You'll therefore have very reddish shots, the opposite of what you expect. |
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03/09/2007 11:39:43 AM · #6 |
Shoot through your sunglasses to get a reference frame.
Shot through your polariser, with the polarisation set the same as the sunglasses (note that if you tilt your head/ rotate the sunglasses the polarisation changes)
In photoshop, crop the sunglass frame down so that all you see is through the sunglasses.
Use the 'match colour' image adjustment, on the real polarised image and match the colours in the sunglass reference frame.
I doubt whitebalance alone would account for the various colour shifts introduced by the filtered lenses. |
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03/09/2007 11:41:24 AM · #7 |
| The white balance is a good point I didn't even think about. I always shoot in RAW so it's flexible but if I set WB on, say cloudy, for both my real shots and the "color sample" ones taken through the sunglasses, that should work for WB, right? |
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