Playing with custom white balance
I’m really glad I applied as a photographer at iStock, and I’m even more thrilled I got rejected. Why? Because the rejection mail included a link to this article on how to do a custom white balance, which I just followed, and I took the photo on the right, which I never would’ve been able to without understanding custom white balance.
And it’s not hard at all, it’s just that I didn’t know what that setting was for. And now I do. Now I know how they take those photos with the very very white background. Easy as pie.
Taking that photo, though, reminded me of something. I once saw a photographer on TV who had his camera on a tripod next to his Mac, and whenever he’d taken a new photo, it would instantly show up on his Mac’s screen, so he could see if all the details were just right, before moving on.
What does such a setup require? I’d really like to have something like that, and I imagine it can’t be that expensive. I think it would make the feedback loop so much faster that I’d learn a lot faster from my failures.
Does anyone here know how to do that?
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About Calvin Correli
I've spent the last 17 years learning, growing, healing, and discovering who I truly am, so that I'm now living every day aligned with my life's purpose.
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