Light from the window

It was a fine day with a lot of sunlight shining through the windows. The groom was removing the veil while the bride was sitting anxiously on the bed (posing for camera), haha...

The light from the right of the couples projected shadow on the wall. The directional light worked pretty well on the couple and brought out the figure of the face. The shadow was not too obvious, probably due to the fact that I had my on-camera flash turned on as well. To make the shadow to be seen clearer, I decided to convert the photo into black and white.

Hopefully, the black and white contrast, as well as the gradient (color trasition from black to gray to white and vice versa) could give a better feel of the photo.

Album: http://picasaweb.google.com/kcshashin/WeddingShots10July2010

White Balance

In a wedding, most of the time the lighting of hotel ballrooms, restaurants are very warm in colour. It makes the photos very yellowish. The yellowish effect sometimes gives a very nice effect on the photos, but sadly to say, not all the time. The following 2 shots were taken in a restaurant.




The lighting there was totally warm. I was a 'strong believer' in taking photos without flash (I did not have an external flash). I thought the photos would be nicer without flash (Well, I admit that I did not know anything about flash at that moment). I refused to use the internal flash on camera because I really do not like the harsh effect on the objects.

I quite like the yellowish effect of these 2 photos. But I thought of giving it a try to adjust the colour of them. I used the 'Level Adjustment' tool in photoshop (Image -> Adjustments -> Levels) to play with the colours. I adjusted the Red/Green/Blue (RGB) channel separately (by selecting the colour in the Channel drop down menu).

In RGB mode, R channel is to adjust red and cyan; G channel is to adjust green and magneta; B channel is to adjust blue and yellow. So, to get a proper white balance image, I adjusted the blue channel of the images above to reduce the yellowish effect. I did some slight adjustments on the other channels too. Below are the end results after adjusting the colours.




Album: http://picasaweb.google.com/kcshashin/WeddingShots7Dec2008