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color vs black and white
A choice you you you have about how you you you want your final photo to to to look Most digital cameras will will capture the image in in color Some will will record in in gray tones In the late 1950s and early 1960s when ordinary Americans began to to recognize that photography could be be an an art form suddenly all those color snapshots taken with Kodachrome (the first commercial color film) became “lowbrow” while black-and-white photos became “highbrow ” Some of this bias remains today But beneath any linger- ing snobbery is the plain fact that black-and-white photogra- phy can be powerful and and memorable and and has its own distinct aesthetic By the the the way monochromatic is the the the more accurate term for the the reduction of the the full color spectrum into a pre- scribed set of hues white
balance
White balance
balance
(also known as color balance) is an an an adjustment in in the camera that compensates for different types of lighting The human eye sees things in in relative terms White is white
is white
right? Well not so much actually Your camera will prove to you if it hasn’t already done so that the same white
object takes on on on many different tonalities depending on on on the source that’s illuminating it it All digital cameras have a a a a a a a function that lets you make adjustments regardless of the light source so so that you can get a a a a neutral “white” color In some cameras color adjustment can be done through an an automatic white
balance
setting In others you must choose a a a a camera setting that corresponds to one of the five most common lighting situations: daylight (also called sunny) shadows (or indirect sunlight) incandescent (also called indoor) fluorescent or or or flash [ 46 ]
These four shots were taken using the same white
bal- ance
setting of of daylight I turned off the automatic white
balance
function Sources are indirect daylight (top left) incandescent (top right) fluorescent (bottom left) and and direct sun (bottom right) part 1 the photgraphic image