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Jeremy Birn61459
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Shay Stephens
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By great color details, are you talking about vivid colors?
If so, then before you take your shot make sure of a few things.
1) Are you shooting in clear light, that is, not cloudy or low light situations.
2) Is your scene colorful? You have to have subjects that are bright and colorful in real life.
3) Have you set your white balance. Ideally using manual white balance with a real white balance target, or the setting that most closely matches your lighting.
4) Use a tripod, it may not make much difference to the color, but it will for the fine detail.
5) Get your exposure as perfect as possible. Under or over exposed photos will kill the color. Get it right, right out of the camera.
6) Use a gray card for metering the scene, or use the zone system, or bracket your shots to help insure getting a good exposure to work with.
7) Depending on the color, filters may help also. A linear polarizer can help with the sky and foliage, certain color enhancing filters can help boost a color.
8) Post process the image for maximum effect. Use it to correct any color casts the camera introduces.
9) Adjust the brightness and contrast if needed.
10) Boost the saturation. You may need to do this on an idividual color channel level for best results, and typically you wont boost any one channel more than 5 - 15. It depends on how well the photo was taken.
These 10 steps can help nearly any photo attain it's full potential in color.
Shay
My Sony F707 Gallery: http://www.shaystephens.com/portfolio.asp
I miss my camera
If so, then before you take your shot make sure of a few things.
1) Are you shooting in clear light, that is, not cloudy or low light situations.
2) Is your scene colorful? You have to have subjects that are bright and colorful in real life.
3) Have you set your white balance. Ideally using manual white balance with a real white balance target, or the setting that most closely matches your lighting.
4) Use a tripod, it may not make much difference to the color, but it will for the fine detail.
5) Get your exposure as perfect as possible. Under or over exposed photos will kill the color. Get it right, right out of the camera.
6) Use a gray card for metering the scene, or use the zone system, or bracket your shots to help insure getting a good exposure to work with.
7) Depending on the color, filters may help also. A linear polarizer can help with the sky and foliage, certain color enhancing filters can help boost a color.
8) Post process the image for maximum effect. Use it to correct any color casts the camera introduces.
9) Adjust the brightness and contrast if needed.
10) Boost the saturation. You may need to do this on an idividual color channel level for best results, and typically you wont boost any one channel more than 5 - 15. It depends on how well the photo was taken.
These 10 steps can help nearly any photo attain it's full potential in color.
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Shay
My Sony F707 Gallery: http://www.shaystephens.com/portfolio.asp
I miss my camera
Bill Borne
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Lisa Young74699
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Also take the same picture a few times at least using different settings to see what works best in the setting you are working under.
Lisa
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Lisa
--If so, then before you take your shot make sure of a few things.
1) Are you shooting in clear light, that is, not cloudy or low
light situations.
2) Is your scene colorful? You have to have subjects that are
bright and colorful in real life.
3) Have you set your white balance. Ideally using manual white
balance with a real white balance target, or the setting that most
closely matches your lighting.
4) Use a tripod, it may not make much difference to the color, but
it will for the fine detail.
5) Get your exposure as perfect as possible. Under or over exposed
photos will kill the color. Get it right, right out of the camera.
6) Use a gray card for metering the scene, or use the zone system,
or bracket your shots to help insure getting a good exposure to
work with.
7) Depending on the color, filters may help also. A linear
polarizer can help with the sky and foliage, certain color
enhancing filters can help boost a color.
8) Post process the image for maximum effect. Use it to correct
any color casts the camera introduces.
9) Adjust the brightness and contrast if needed.
10) Boost the saturation. You may need to do this on an idividual
color channel level for best results, and typically you wont boost
any one channel more than 5 - 15. It depends on how well the photo
was taken.
These 10 steps can help nearly any photo attain it's full potential
in color.
--
Shay
My Sony F707 Gallery: http://www.shaystephens.com/portfolio.asp
I miss my camera
My gallery: http://silvercharm.digitalphotochat.com/gallery
POTDs at DPC: http://www.digitalphotocontest.com/profile.asp?pid=11986
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