February 1, 2010

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Day 32/365

A Snowy Day...

Wow! Can you believe it? One-twelfth of this new year is gone! The snow storm today kept me at home where it was safe and warm. I had the television on today while I was trying to get other things done... America's Next Top Model! It got me so inspired... no, I didn't break out my studio, but I did find me a beautiful little model! Here she is... I think I worked her too hard.

Once again you will find me playing around with the white balance. Originally this started out as me having my daughter just grab my camera and capture this gorgeous little girl's expression when she grabbed her toy.

I set the camera to automatic and had my daughter, Sarah, stand above Rachael just a bit to get only her head and the sofa in the photo as I didn't want to edit out the video cabinet or the wall behind her. That was the first 3 or 4 photos. I found one that I loved...

Then I grabbed the camera, and changed it to manual settings. With the manual settings, the camera reverted back to florescent lighting that was there the other night, as I didn't change it. So I studied the EXIF data on both images and seen that when in fully auto mode, the camera's white balance was capturing the image in 'auto' mode which gave it a more natural skin tone. And manual, well, once again, left her looking blue. I corrected the color in Photoshop. But today's lesson for me was experimenting with the settings on the camera.

But those pictures were so cute, I had to share them with you. She got a bit tired at the end so I gave her the horse back and she just fell asleep propped up in the corner of the sofa. Isn't she the cutest model you've ever seen?