A lesson I learned once: Never trust the auto white balance of your camera when taking photos in stone buildings; the off-white of the walls will be taken as the white point.
Actually, timber buildings aren’t much better. You can’t trust that there’ll be good natural hues inside: best to carry at least a blank sheet of reasonably-white paper to do a manual white balance when doing architecture photography.
“Prompted” yes, but it’s more “oh, he avoided that thing that bit me”. What happens is the off-white tint gets identified as a lighting problem and largely dialled out: if it wasn’t set manually, the white render or whatever in background probably set your camera right.
(on the other hand, my outdoor photos of miyajima all have a green tint ’cause I kept forgetting to reset the camera… let-the-camera-sort-it-out lets you concentrate on composition, which is the thimg that can’t be fixed in photoshop…)
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Alan White 09.15.19 at 3:49 pm
Beautiful building dramatically framed!
mitzimuffin 09.15.19 at 9:04 pm
It reminds me of Escher. Lovely.
Chris Bertram 09.16.19 at 7:23 am
@mitzimuffin – same building …..
Collin Street 09.16.19 at 8:38 am
A lesson I learned once: Never trust the auto white balance of your camera when taking photos in stone buildings; the off-white of the walls will be taken as the white point.
Actually, timber buildings aren’t much better. You can’t trust that there’ll be good natural hues inside: best to carry at least a blank sheet of reasonably-white paper to do a manual white balance when doing architecture photography.
Donald Coffin 09.16.19 at 5:27 pm
Two lovely shots.
Chris Bertram 09.17.19 at 11:15 am
@Collin is your comment prompted by the pinkness of the foreground ceiling?
Collin Street 09.17.19 at 12:58 pm
“Prompted” yes, but it’s more “oh, he avoided that thing that bit me”. What happens is the off-white tint gets identified as a lighting problem and largely dialled out: if it wasn’t set manually, the white render or whatever in background probably set your camera right.
(on the other hand, my outdoor photos of miyajima all have a green tint ’cause I kept forgetting to reset the camera… let-the-camera-sort-it-out lets you concentrate on composition, which is the thimg that can’t be fixed in photoshop…)
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