e5 / White Balance:

Before beginning the exercise, visit this site:
http://www.purveslab.net/seeforyourself/
to understand how the perception of color is relative.
(Then, you can take a color test ... it is hard, but you should try it out):
http://color.method.ac/

The exercise:

In this exercise you will manually change the temperture of the light in your image
You will shoot or alter an exisiting image for the following temperatures:

cool, warm, and neutral

You can acheive this with the following options:

  1. Change the Kelvin settings in your White Balance settings in your camera (this is preferred)
  2. OR you can shoot with a series of incorrect automatic lighting settings in your camera
  3. OR (if you do not have access to manual camera color settings) you can change the color temperture in Adobe Camera RAW software - using the Basic panel.

 

Save images as a dng

What to turn in


Create a folder: lastname_e5

lastname_cool.dng
lastname_warm.dng
lastname_neutral.dng

 

Color Temperture Chart - Kelvin

 

chart