On 26/11/04, Paul Stenquist, discombobulated, unleashed: >And all through the house, my wife and daughters were dragging up boxes >from the basement and working furiously to decorate the Christmas tree. >That's somewhat of a tradition around here. My part of the job was to >go out and buy a tree this morning. I opted for a long needle Scotch >Pine this year. We haven't had one of those in many years. Different is >fun. Anyway, I shot it with the DA 16-45. I dialed in about plus 1.5 >exposure compensation at f11, and positioned the camera on a cabinet. >The exposure was around half a second I think. In any case, here it is. >http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2912959&size=lg
Interesting. You have come across a classic mixed lighting situation and balanced the picture entirely for tungsten. I daily shoot pics for the news in such scenarios (minus the nice tree :-) and I can tell you that I hate the ultra blue windows with a vengeance. Some people like the cold blue exteriors through a window I gather ;-) For video, what I would do here is have a couple of redheads up with half-blue gels on them (about 3900K I think they are) and balance for daylight (5600K). This keeps the exterior light from going so blue, and allows the artificial lighting to meet the daylight half way, while giving the domestic lamps some nice warm pools of tungsten illumination. Also, the tree lights would have a nice rosy glow to them. It looks like you've sprayed gold paint on everything but the windows ;-) For stills, I would have balanced for daylight and used flash, keeping the domestic lighting from being obliterated as much as possible - I appreciate you probably shot RAW I know we all see things different, I merely present my approach in such situations. Best, Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=====| http://www.cottysnaps.com _____________________________
