![]() After selecting the shadow area the remaining white imbalance of the lighthouse can be handled by desaturating using the local adjustment brush – or leave it like it is. The shed and other areas in shadow are lit by ambient light reflected from many sources – including sky glow. An examination of the scene reveals that the lighthouse is directly lit while the shed (near the bottom of the shot) is not. Or try again by clicking elsewhere!īy selecting a different location for the gray sample tool a better compromise can be achieved as shown in the photo below. There are several solutions to this problem: color correct the lighthouse separately or compromise by warming (increasing the temperature) of the selected balance. The sky and stars are unnaturally and artificially blue. The dubious result of getting the lighthouse to its proper color via the white balance tool appears below. Stars are generally not good choices for gray-scale selection both because they are often over exposed and because many of them are NOT white! In the example below you see a photo of the Ocracoke Lighthouse which is definitely white, not the orange that resulted from sodium vapor lights. Even a white area is fine (but not an overexposed white). You click the tool, then click a gray area of the photo – if there is something that should be gray in the photo, that is. The easiest way to make the adjustment in Lightroom or Adobe Camera Raw is with the White Balance tool. You may have to compromise and have a scene that has a bias of a pleasing kind rather than the ugly variety. You may want to adjust different parts of a night image separately. ![]() Under sodium vapor lights it will be impossible to achieve a natural color spectrum. Sodium vapor lights used in many streetlights are predominately yellow-brown and almost monochromatic. Sodium vapor lights for example are horrendous. When shooting at night, understand that every light in the scene – including stars – has a different color bias (tint). At its core white balance requires adjusting the red, green, and blue colors so that an area that should have a neutral gray or white color is actually gray – not tinged red, blue or green. ![]() Our experience with night photography is that the camera choice is usually wrong – or at least unappealing. We hate to be the first to break the news, but your camera is pretty clueless about what color white is. ![]() We DO prefer natural looking scenes and eschew the over-the-top contrast and color saturation that seems to be the rage these days. We do prefer realistic over bizarre, but we are not opposed to removing telephone wires and other distractions. Healing and cloning will get it’s own short article.įirst to be clear our goal is usually to make a compelling photo, not merely to represent reality. We cover nearly all of these topics in greater detail in each of our NP150 – Photo Manipulation Webinars but we will hit the highlights here. We have been watching ourselves over our shoulders – yeah, kinda weird, right? Our goal is to figure out what it is we do the most to fix and beautify our photography – night photography in particular. ![]()
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