Thursday, August 5, 2010

dslr and photoshop

Recently I bought a Canon 450D (Rebel XSI) during my trip to Shanghai and begin my amateur photography hobby. My favorite lens right now is the 50mm f/1.8. Its a really cheap ($100) lens and if you're thinking about starting photography I highly recommend it. One of the main reasons I like it so much is because it takes great low light shots due to its large aperture. GET IT.
Here's a picture I took of Yuki in my apartment with our average light bulbs that give off some what of a yellowish light.


Notice the picture color seems a little off because of the yellow tint. It almost looks sepia aside from the lavender in the background on Queen's backpack. If I wanted to print this picture I would need to fix the color first.

Now by no means am I a Photoshop expert, but with simple color balance adjustments (ctrl+b) I've turned that picture in to this:

This is a real quick (2 min) color adjustment and it probably could look even better if done by a professional. In this picture you can really see the blue in his right eye and that lavender in the backpack looks a lot better, also my ACU pattern backpack doesn't look so brown. If I were to print this picture, this version would be it.

3 comments:

  1. nice dude.

    the 50mm is pretty awesome.

    the only thing that i would like to comment on is that if you're doing image adjustments like that on a jpeg, you'll lose incremental quality each time you save. normally you'd like to get the white balance perfect from the shot (though in this case it may be difficult because of the flourescent lighting).

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  2. I'm going to print the second one and post it up at work!

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