On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Igor Roshchin <s...@komkon.org> wrote: > > Hi All! > > After taking photos at a party, I discovered an interesting effect. > It was indoors, with uneven and not very bright light, so, I used > a flash bounced from the ceiling, which made the light rather uniform. > > There were some party items in two colors: green and purple. > In all shots, the purple came out as blue. All other colors are > close to the original. > I tried to play with the color temperature and tint in LR, but I cannot > make it without skewing the rest of the colors.
I am seeing the purple as blue on my iMac. I have run into this problem with my D200 and SB800 flashes which as far as i';m concerned, produce a better flash shot than my K10-D and AF 360. Dave Dave > http://42graphy.org/snapshots/misc/_IR31001.jpg > > I suspect, that this particular color (dye) fluoresces from the flush, > or something like that. > > This brought up an interesting discussion question: > Imagine a well organized party with color matching of various elements > (e.g. wedding, with bride's maids' dresses matching the plates, or > whatever). In that case, the flash can change the way colors appear. > By itself, it is nothing new - the same color on different surfices can > appear differently in different light. > But, - it would be a nightmare for the photographer (and the wedding > organizer, if that person was in charge for the photographs). > > This opens up many interesting questions that I've never heard > discussed. On one hand the event organizer should be aware of such > potential problems, - but I am curious, - how many of them try to > see how things look under the flash light? > > I know that, say, stage directors for theaters/ballet are aware of such > issues, - I had a chance of talking with one from a famous Russian > ballet troup touring the US some 12 years ago. They had to deal with > the variation of the light temperature/color in different cities. > Otherwise, slightly blueish tutus (Swan Lake) in a yellowish main > stage "white" light look green. > > If you have worked with the wedding/event organizers who had dealt > with such situations, - I'd be very curious to hear about it. > And if you were the photographer, - how did you deal with it? > > Cheers, > > Igor > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
