Church Today

[kap55]

Had to go to church today so I took a quick picture.

[Shadowman]

Nicely captured.

[Mike Buckley]

I like the composition but wish the white balance would render more accurate white tones. The image is far too orange to my taste.

[kap55]

I like the composition but wish the white balance would render more accurate white tones. The image is far too orange to my taste.

You're probably right Mike. It had very warm lighting in the church but I may have overdone it. Here's another not quite so orange.

[Mike Buckley]

Much better white balance.

[bnnrcn]

I prefer the WB in #2 too

[FrankMi]

Hi Brian, white balance, in fact, many attributes of a scene can be captured considerably different than what we see with our eyes. In this case you can predictably get the same lighting on a revisit. If you are interested in knowing the real difference between what you see and what you capture, try an experiment.

Take a laptop (or print the best image you can from what you captured) and return to the church for a comparison. Particularly if you have a laptop, try changing the settings of the image to match the white balance, colours, brightness, contrast, and saturation of what you actually see in the church when you compare the two.

Noting the differences needed to get your recorded image to match reality should give you a good starting point for setting these values for future similar indoor images.

[kap55]

Thanks for the idea Frank, though not sure if I would go through that much trouble.

[Polar01]

Brian did you use flash as the pews close to you are really bright, if you are going to use a flash suggest that you point it way up so as not to light those pews. I would suggest that if you reshoot that use a tripod and go with a longer exposure. Below is one I did in Toronto a year ago ISO 50, f/16, 15sec. This is actually a 3 shot pano, shot at 19mm with a 16-35mm on a D600.

Cheers: Allan

[Manfred M]

Brian - the problem I have with this image is the light distribution. Our eyes tend to be drawn towards the brightest part of the image, which happens to be the pews at the rear. The front of the church is too dark to draw our eyes forward.

If you can correct the lighting, it would be a more effective picture. My 30 second effort / thoughts are sort of along this line:

[IzzieK]

Hmmmm I'll go against the grain here and chose the original post colour because it is warm, too warm but nicer. It has the cozy look in it just like how you want to feel inside a church. And the carpet looks good unlike the edits.