Chapter 3. Getting Great Color
In This Chapter
Working with light
Choosing white balance options
Choosing and customizing a Picture Style
Registering a User Defined Picture Style
Using the Picture Style Editor
About color spaces
With all the options for setting and refining color on the Rebel T1i/500D, you'll get excellent color in any type of light. Getting great color begins during shooting by selecting a white balance and Picture Style. And you can choose a color space to best match your printing needs. In this chapter, you learn how each option is useful in different shooting scenarios as well as learning some techniques for ensuring accurate color in any light. But before we talk about camera controls and options that ensure accurate color, it's important to understand the concepts of light and its colors.
Working with Light
One of the characteristics that will set your images apart from others is great light — looking and waiting for or setting up beautiful light makes all the difference. In addition, you can use the qualities of light to set the mood; control the viewer's emotional response to the subject; reveal or subdue the subject's shape, form, texture, and detail; and render scene colors as vibrant or subdued. This section provides the basics for exploring and using the characteristics of light.
Understanding color temperature
Few people think of light as having color until the color becomes obvious, such as at sunrise and sunset when the sun's low angle causes light to pass through ...
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