The 11th essential creative option is the saturation setting. Of all the 12 creative essentials, the saturation setting is probably the most obvious and most appreciated. The saturation setting in your camera refers to the intensity of the colors present. Lower settings mute the colors, while higher settings intensify them. This is (of course) an important part of how an…
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The Contrast Setting: Essential Creative Option #10
The 10th essential creative option is the contrast setting. The contrast setting affects the overall tonality (or the contrast between the darks and lights) of your image. By adjusting this setting (to the plus side) you can make the blacks in your image (shadows, darker areas) much blacker than they appear and the brighter areas much brighter. With a high…
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Make it Amber, Make it Blue – The Creative Side of White Balance
Being creative with your white balance can add great personality to an image, as well as enhance a message you want to convey. This week, as part of the In Camera Magic: The 12 Essential Creative Options photography course, we explored three intrinsic color options that support your vision as an artist … white balance, tint and hue/color tone. While each of these three…
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The Hue/Color Tone Control: Essential Creative Option #9
The ninth essential creative option is the hue/color tone control. The hue (sometimes called color tone) mixes yellow or red in to your image. This gives you the important option of changing the ‘color’ of the colors you are shooting. For a clearer view of what that means, think of something yellow like a banana. Now, visualize what that yellow banana would…
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The Tint Control: Essential Creative Option #8
The eighth essential creative option is the tint control. The tint control in your camera allows you to manage the amount of green or magenta present in your image. To adjust it, you move the camera’s tint control setting (usually found with the camera’s white balance fine-tune control), toward the color you wish to add, away from the one you…
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The White Balance Control: Essential Creative Option #7
The seventh essential creative option is the white balance control. The white balance control allows you to manage the amount of blue or amber in your image. The creative goal of changing the white balance setting in your camera (despite its name) is not to make the color white look white, rather it’s to allow full expression. An artist chooses the white balance setting that…
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