Blue Snow in Your Listing Photos?
White Balance Tutorial - This will help!
It's winter time, and we'll be taking alot of photos with snow as the subject, or with snow as part of the image, as is often seen in winter listing photos. This will also help you when photographing white buildings.
Photographing white objects can be tricky. In many cases, you will find when photographing white buildings, or images with snow in them, that your whites have a very blue cast.
It's an easy fix - whether you do it 'in camera', (the easiest way), or in post processing, it's not hard to fix the problem.
The issue is the need to adjust the 'White Balance'.
Simply put, white balance is the 'temperature' of your image. The cooler the temperature, the more blue you will have, the warmer the temperature, the more yellow you will have.
The easiest method is to set the white balance in your camera to 'cloudy'. It will take away that blue cast. Should you forget to adjust your camera settings, there are methods in post processing you can use to fix it.
In Photoshop's Camera Raw, (if you shoot RAW), you can use the drop down box for 'White Balance' and choose the 'cloudy' option. Or, you can adjust the white balance of your JPGs in this same software, or just about any other photo editing software, by moving the 'temperature' slider to the right (toward the yellow).
That's it! A simple way to get rid of winter blues!
Below are examples of what was discussed above.
Original Photo - Obvious blue cast on the building 'Cloudy' Adjustment - removes the blue cast
Final image adjusted for white balance, saturation, contrast, and sharpness, and with a couple distracting elements removed from the sides of the image.
This church is in Simla, Colorado, a small ranching town about 43 miles east of Colorado Springs, with a population of somewhere around 700. Simla was settled in the 1880's, and was the center for the area's potato harvest. It was also the birthplace of 1936 Olympic Gold Medalist, Glenn Morris. Born on his family's horse ranch, he chased rabbits to train. (No word on whether or not he ever caught one....) He was the fourth Olympic athelete to star in a Tarzan film, "Tarzan's Revenge" - in 1938. He was inducted into the Colorado Sports Hall of Fame in 1967.
I couldn't find any history on the church.
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