Today: some tips on what to think about when sending your images off to an online printing service and custom white balance? Exposure? A grey card helps you with both.
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These are great tips, thanks for sharing them.
Great tips, thanks for sharing.
That video is amazing! The quality of it is probably to the point that an actual movie could be shot in that fashion. Sure, it probably doesn’t offer the full range of control that a good professional DV camera does, but surely it’s no worse than those prosumer DV cams that a lot of great movies are getting made with, right?
Hi,
thanks for a great show! Just wanted to share some knowledge with you. In the podcast you say that the colour temperature you set in white balance does not have anything to do with temperature. This is not correct. It has a very direct relationship with temperature, the temperature of the light emitter. I do not know if you know the theory behind or not, but if you do please ignore the rest. Maybe you just avoided talking about it not to confuse listeners.
I learned about it when I studied astronomy, where you classify stars based on their colour temperature. The theory behind is that the colour of light related to a certain colour temperature is the same temperature a perfect black body would emit if heated up to that temperature. And in photography we can actually use this knowledge. A candle has lower temperature than a light bulb which is cooler than the sun. Of course it does not help explain why a flash is hotter than a light bulb because it feels cooler but that’s due to the short burst of the flash. You can read more on colour temperature and black body radiation on wikipedia for instance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_temperature
Thanks again for a great show!
/Kalle
I’m a little behind on listening to the shows and just stumbled over this one, just before I was planning to send a photobook off to have it printed. Now I was wondering, are the tips you mentioned for sending photos to an online printing service also valid for when you want to order a photobook?
And even though I’m behind on listening to your shows, I still enjoy every minute of them.
@Ilse they mostly are, but it depends on the photo service. Most of the photo book printers will also want JPG with the sRGB color space