Uri A
27-May-2014, 05:16
Kids,
I'm a classically trained photog. Assisted a lot of the greats back in the day. Used to scramble on ladders to tape strips of CC Magenta around flouro tubes and replace incandescent bulbs with slave flashes, all that jazz... So saying "lets fix it in post" is anathema to me. I like to get it right in camera.
But these days with all the computer power at our fingertips ... does anyone still schlep a (expensive) color meter and (also expensive) CC filter set and bag of gels around with them?
I've been shooting mixed light source interiors on chrome (the classic photog nightmare) and you know what? A few twiddles in P'shop and all is well. Especially considering the quality loss of stacking a pack of dusty wrattens in front of your German glass, vs the loss (if any) of correcting in post...
Is there still any point?
(BTW I still use filters for B&W to bring skies in, correct skintones, etc. If it's not on the film, it's not there to correct, but in color..??)
I'm a classically trained photog. Assisted a lot of the greats back in the day. Used to scramble on ladders to tape strips of CC Magenta around flouro tubes and replace incandescent bulbs with slave flashes, all that jazz... So saying "lets fix it in post" is anathema to me. I like to get it right in camera.
But these days with all the computer power at our fingertips ... does anyone still schlep a (expensive) color meter and (also expensive) CC filter set and bag of gels around with them?
I've been shooting mixed light source interiors on chrome (the classic photog nightmare) and you know what? A few twiddles in P'shop and all is well. Especially considering the quality loss of stacking a pack of dusty wrattens in front of your German glass, vs the loss (if any) of correcting in post...
Is there still any point?
(BTW I still use filters for B&W to bring skies in, correct skintones, etc. If it's not on the film, it's not there to correct, but in color..??)