Yep i always have huge problems photographing in strong coloured light. It knocks off the auto white balance and usually saturates one of the colour channels so stuff gets blown out. Especially UV because the camera’s light meter has different sensitivity to it than the sensor. And it gives weird double images in some lenses (i guess chromatic aberration). I’m only an amateur so I don’t have the best stuff.
Best thing is to manually calibrate white balance or just shoot raw, and keep a careful eye on the spectrogram to make sure all colours are properly exposed. And then adjust in post if it doesn’t look right.
And thanks! I remember waaaaaaaay back when I first learned about shooting in raw and how it felt like cheating just to be able to stop worrying about half the settings. What a wonderful format (to my poor overloaded hard drives: I’m sorry)
Hehe thanks 🤭 Yeah to someone coming from analog it could feel like ‘cheating’ I guess. Though you still have to get your exposure right (can’t fix black crush or blown out parts). I use it more for white balance.
I’d love to see a high dynamic range sensor, similar to how those audio recorders all do 32-bit float these days.
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Yep i always have huge problems photographing in strong coloured light. It knocks off the auto white balance and usually saturates one of the colour channels so stuff gets blown out. Especially UV because the camera’s light meter has different sensitivity to it than the sensor. And it gives weird double images in some lenses (i guess chromatic aberration). I’m only an amateur so I don’t have the best stuff.
Best thing is to manually calibrate white balance or just shoot raw, and keep a careful eye on the spectrogram to make sure all colours are properly exposed. And then adjust in post if it doesn’t look right.
Yours are very well exposed though!
(I see what you did there)
And thanks! I remember waaaaaaaay back when I first learned about shooting in raw and how it felt like cheating just to be able to stop worrying about half the settings. What a wonderful format (to my poor overloaded hard drives: I’m sorry)
Hehe thanks 🤭 Yeah to someone coming from analog it could feel like ‘cheating’ I guess. Though you still have to get your exposure right (can’t fix black crush or blown out parts). I use it more for white balance.
I’d love to see a high dynamic range sensor, similar to how those audio recorders all do 32-bit float these days.