Understanding White Balance

Understanding White Balance

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More good news about our club members!

Hi everyone!

I want to share some great news with you! The Culpeper Star Exponent's 2010 calendar was just distributed and our club is very well represented.... Four of the twelve months are accompanied with photos by our very own club members!

A big congratulations to:

Paula Byers
Reid Anderson and
Jan Broom (2 photos)

The pictures are excellent and we are all really proud of you!!

Awesome job!
Scott

Having trouble with copy/paste to the Blog? Read on....

Hey folks,

Are you having trouble using copy/paste when composing in the Blog window? I found that I have this issue only when using Internet Exploder 8..... I found a fix for it on blogger.com's help page....

Thanks to everyone who has submitted their snow storm 2009 pics - they are great! I have moved them all to the winter 2009-10 gallery....

Have a great Christmas and holiday season! I'm looking forward to seeing everyone in January and throughout the coming year!

Solution for copy/paste:
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So, HERE'S WHAT YOU DO! And thank you to General Crumbs above for the answer. Put IE into compatibility view when on the blogger page. It's in the Tools menu. It works! I can now paste into the Compose AND the HTML window, where I could only do it in the HTML one before.
More info here: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/blogger/thread?tid=4b52095107dffda0&hl=en#all
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Scott
twodragonfliesphotography@hotmail.com

FREE! Color Enlarger....

Free to a good home... Please see email thread below for a few free pieces of photo equipment...

"Scott

Thanks for getting back to me. As much as I would like to get back into photography, I really do not have the time anymore. The reason I was inquiring is because I have some equipment that I wanted to donate to someone who could use it and after having only limited success on FreeCycle.org, my wife suggested I see if there was a photography club in Culpeper.

Can you let the group know that I have a color enlarger and a box of misc. photo paperwork (magazines, notes, etc.) that is free for the taking. If anyone is interested, please give them my email address.

Thanks
Vince
vincem@hughes.net
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This is the barn in Culpeper off of business 29 near Old Orange Road. This was my first successful shot using the panoramic setting on my camera.

Our very own Jack Daily has been accepted into the 13th Annual all-media show at Gallery West in Alexandria

Congratulations Jack!!

"Your artwork was accepted into the 13th annual national juried competition at Gallery West. We received over 160 entries (470 images) to be considered by Jack Rasmussen, Director and Curator of The American University Museum, Washington DC. The quality of the works submitted was exceptional. Mr. Rasmussen selected the works of 72 different artists, which include paintings in oil, acrylic, and watercolor, collage, sculpture, prints, mixed media ceramics and photography".

Let Me Introduce Myself...

Hi, I'm Cheryl and I am very excited about the Photography Club in Culpeper.  I never really paid attention to all the buttons, knobs, or function keys on any of my cameras through the years and I have SO much to learn!

I used instamatic cameras until our 4th son was born 23 years ago when I finally invested in a Canon Rebel G 35 mm.  Eventually I bought a longer lens as the boys became active in sports and I needed the range.

Then in 2004 one of my sons showed me his digital camera – I was amazed!  I loved the instant gratification of seeing the photo right away.  I finally purchased a little Canon PowerShot that I could slip into my purse and take anywhere!  Later I was in the 10th row at a concert and discovered the camera only had a 4x zoom (silly me – I should have done more research!).  I was satisfied with just a few of my photos and they were the ones I had walked up to the 4th row to take.  I already needed a bigger digital camera!

I purchased the Canon PowerShot S2 IS and later the S5 IS (both of which are now obsolete) and have been extremely pleased with them.  I was content to let the camera do the thinking for me utilizing the ‘auto’ setting almost all the time.  One of my sons challenged me to experiment with the manual settings and I dabbled with them but would often revert back to what I was comfortable with. He also showed me many techniques in Photoshop to enhance, correct, and copyright my work.  There is SO much to learn!!

I’ve been to three meetings of the Culpeper Photography Club and have been gaining confidence in utilizing the manual settings on my camera and experimenting with my photography.

Our current assignment is “white balance” or “color correction” and I have one example of a photo taken at a Jason Michael Carroll concert where they overdid the red lighting on stage (see example below).

I took it to Photoshop and did my color correction there using the color balance tool to adjust the color (see example below).

What I’m hoping to do between now and our meeting in January is to play with the “white balance” setting in my camera and do a comparison of photos.  I can’t always be experimenting with the settings on my camera at a concert.  Practice and experimentation need to be done at home so that I can be comfortable in a more intense situation.

I'm looking forward to seeing what everyone else comes up with for their “white balance” demonstration.

Happy Holidays!