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Creative White Balance

May 15, 2018 by Steve Berardi 2 Comments

Photo by Steve Berardi
Photo by Steve Berardi
White balance is something that’s often overlooked in photography. It’s what controls the color temperature of your photos: an image with a red or orange tint is considered “warm” whereas an image with more bluish colors is considered “cold.” You can adjust the white balance to make an image warmer or colder.

It’s called “white” balance because it’s often thought of as the color temperature of the white colors in your image—so a “correct” white balance would be one where the natural whites in your image are actually white and don’t have a red or blue tint. But, it’s important to remember that the white balance affects the entire image, not just the white colors.

The camera is usually pretty good at guessing the correct or most natural-looking white balance, but sometimes it’s not, and other times it’s mostly correct but you might still want to adjust the color temperature to emphasize the feeling of a photograph. [Read more…] about Creative White Balance

Filed Under: Tips Tagged With: balance, color, temperature, white

How To Add Contrast To Landscape Photos

April 15, 2014 by Steve Berardi Leave a Comment

Sunrise in the Mojave / Photo by Steve Berardi
Sunrise in the Mojave / Photo by Steve Berardi
Adding contrast to a landscape photo is one way to make it a more compelling image. When we think of the word “contrast” we usually think about contrasting colors or brightness. But, there’s also another type of contrast that you can capture in your images: subjective contrast.

Here’s a quick look at the different types of contrast and how you can capture them in your images:

Color Contrast

The most common way of adding more contrast to your images is photographing a scene with strong contrasting colors. With landscape photography, this is usually pretty easy to do around the “golden hours” — where you’ll likely have some of your scene in the shade while the rest of the scene is extra saturated with that warm light of sunrise or sunset. [Read more…] about How To Add Contrast To Landscape Photos

Filed Under: Landscapes Tagged With: black, black and white, brightness, color, composition, contrast, emphasize, golden hours, landscape, photos, subjective, white

8 Tips and Tutorials For Winter Photography

December 10, 2013 by Steve Berardi Leave a Comment

Photo by Vic Berardi
Photo by Vic Berardi
With all this super cold and snowy weather we’re getting up here in the northern hemisphere, I thought it’d be good to put together a list of helpful tips and tutorials for winter photography 🙂

So, here are a few posts we’ve written about winter here at PhotoNaturalist, as well as some great articles from other blogs:

#1 – How to get a perfect exposure of a snow-covered landscape

If you try shooting a snowy landscape with autoexposure, then you’ll almost always end up with gray snow in your photos. So, this post gives you a few ways to avoid that common problem. [Read more…] about 8 Tips and Tutorials For Winter Photography

Filed Under: Tips Tagged With: cold, gray, landscape, photography, snow, Tips, tutorials, white, winter

Introduction to IR Photography

May 20, 2013 by Steve Berardi 2 Comments

Photo by Steve Berardi
Photo by Steve Berardi
Infrared (IR) photography doesn’t get much attention, but it can be extremely useful for photographing landscapes in black and white. It’s known for capturing strong contrast between vegetation and the surrounding landscape.

So, here’s a brief introduction to IR photography and its effects: [Read more…] about Introduction to IR Photography

Filed Under: Landscapes, Tips Tagged With: black, dark, desert, effect, filter, infrared, ir, landscape, monochromatic, monochrome, photography, sky, trees, white

Why You Shouldn’t Rely on Auto White Balance

November 15, 2011 by Steve Berardi 4 Comments

Photo by Steve Berardi
Photo by Steve Berardi
Don’t you love it when something is “automatic”? It’s just one less thing to worry about, right?

Well, as you probably already know, “automatic” doesn’t always work (especially when it comes to cameras). But, that’s what makes photography so fun 🙂

One of those automatic features of your camera that doesn’t always work is white balance.

[Read more…] about Why You Shouldn’t Rely on Auto White Balance

Filed Under: Landscapes, Tips Tagged With: auto, automatic, balance, blue, cast, cold, color, jpeg, k, kelvin, landscape, manual, raw, red, temperature, tint, warm, white

7 great resources for winter photography

December 8, 2009 by Steve Berardi 3 Comments

Photo by Steve Berardi
Photo by Steve Berardi
We’re starting to get a good layer of snow on the mountains here in southern California, so I figured now’s a good time to start getting ready for some winter photos.

There are a few unique problems with winter photography because of the bright white snow and cold weather. So, here are a few resources to help you deal with these problems and capture some great natural light this winter season: [Read more…] about 7 great resources for winter photography

Filed Under: Landscapes, Tips, Wildlife Tagged With: birds, exposure, gray card, hawks, landscape, levels, photography, photoshop, snow, snowy, white, winter

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