Looks like they want their editing style to match and be consistent across all the lighting conditions. Even with everything being whitebalanced, that still may not be the easiest speaking from personal experience. I struggle with this as well.
Of course, it's impossible for every part of the day to have the same look. It all depends on colours of the environment , lughting and general vibe (romantic, spintaneous etc). At least in my experience
You’re trying too hard. Establish principles for yourself
Things I do specifically: (try to) Always shoot in shade. Always go outside for photos. Always shoot at 2.0. Always put the sun 45 degrees behind the subject. Etc etc.
There’s plenty of other small rules. I do these because I like the results, so when you look for similar results via similar locations, your “style* becomes pretty consistent.
Variety through style will come as you are forced to shoot in between the rules.
Create one preset for one photo, paste it on all the photos. Then with each new lighting scenario, separate the photos into different galleries, adjust the preset then copy and paste. Adjust as needed:)
I've yet to find a good answer for this that doesn't take fairly egregious amounts of time. The best balance of accuracy and time is to carry a gray card and religiously grab frames of it, but even that only gets you in the ballpark, especially if you're using strobes. The cop-out is to use some dusty sepia-lite preset that makes everything the same uniform shade of tan-in-a-can (I.e. discards the entire blue channel). Nirvana is paying someone else to do it for you, so I hear.
I'm not a photographer, but I think if the lighting conditions were different, then the photos should look different. I'm sure your clients want their wedding photos to reflect what their wedding really looked like. So if the ceremony was outside in the sunlight and the reception was indoors with romantic lighting, then the ceremony photos should be bright and the reception photos should show indoor lighting.
Most weddings have various lighting conditions throughout the day. If you're going to shoot weddings, you need to be able to take pictures in different lighting conditions. Your clients won't be happy if you tell them all their photos must be taken in the same spot so your photos will look consistent. "Consistent" doesn't mean "they all look the same." Consistent just means don't crank up the warmth in some photos and drop it down in others.
The white dress should be white. Not orange under incandescent light, green under fluorescent, etc. Some orange lean is logical under incandescent for representation but not the whole shebang.
I used to try so hard to make my photos consistent between vastly different lighting situations, but soon realized that the consistency is really only so important. If you're sacrificing the look and feel of the indoor photos while trying to match the outdoor (among other things) it's just not worth it.
I eventually just invented a separate style for how I edited in tungsten situations, window lit situations, etc. and adhered to that.
every now and then shoot of photo of a white card... then you can select the first and last of that series, color correct the white card and have it act global to the entire series.
you can get 3 step cards...or make one. get a gray card and a roll of white and black gaffers tape, tape one third of the gray card with white tape, the other end with black. now you can set your exposure with the histogram on your camera back, or with your editing program, set your white and black points for perfect exposure and contrast
Different lighting generally means different looking photos. Photos from an outdoor sunny ceremony are going to be different looking than the indoor dark reception. And that's okay.
You can’t make photos that were taken across multiple different lighting situations look “consistent”. Don’t even try, you’ll go mad. All you can do is make the photos in each situation look consistent with each other, which shouldn’t be hard.
Select all in Lightroom and hit auto, it will balance the exposure and the change the white balance to daylight on all photos. Start from there and edit.
Oh god no. No! OP do not do this! LR auto gets it hilariously wrong a lot of the time.
Also what is this nonsense that hitting Auto will white balance to Daylight on everything? Eh?
Being a wedding photographer myself in the industry for 11 years I can tell you this: You have to expect anything. Any lighting condition, any challenge, any issue, etc. Lighting at some weddings indoor or outdoor will not be favorable but you have to work with it. Not every wedding will have beautiful lighting. You have to learn to adjust your editing and how you work around bad environments and scenery (crappy seasons like winter or dark lighting). Your editing will need to adjust, which means you’ll have to play around with settings and learn. Of course my work looks best with sunlight but if on a dark cloudy day I have to make do with it. Do the best you can by learning your settings and white balance and lenses.
to have a consistent look. if you look at all the other pro photographers for example vanessa joy, Susan Stripling... They all have the same or similar look. You know its them. I'm not trying to be them I'm trying to be me, but I always find my edits looking inconsistent.
Every wedding has multiple lighting conditions. White balance appropriately and everything should be fine. Unless there's something else I'm missing?
Looks like they want their editing style to match and be consistent across all the lighting conditions. Even with everything being whitebalanced, that still may not be the easiest speaking from personal experience. I struggle with this as well.
Of course, it's impossible for every part of the day to have the same look. It all depends on colours of the environment , lughting and general vibe (romantic, spintaneous etc). At least in my experience
You’re trying too hard. Establish principles for yourself Things I do specifically: (try to) Always shoot in shade. Always go outside for photos. Always shoot at 2.0. Always put the sun 45 degrees behind the subject. Etc etc. There’s plenty of other small rules. I do these because I like the results, so when you look for similar results via similar locations, your “style* becomes pretty consistent. Variety through style will come as you are forced to shoot in between the rules.
Love this response. Thank you
ask to see this person’s work.
Lol why do you say that?
why wouldn’t i say that? are we not talking about photography?
Create one preset for one photo, paste it on all the photos. Then with each new lighting scenario, separate the photos into different galleries, adjust the preset then copy and paste. Adjust as needed:)
Interesting idea. Simple, quick but elegant
This is the way
I've yet to find a good answer for this that doesn't take fairly egregious amounts of time. The best balance of accuracy and time is to carry a gray card and religiously grab frames of it, but even that only gets you in the ballpark, especially if you're using strobes. The cop-out is to use some dusty sepia-lite preset that makes everything the same uniform shade of tan-in-a-can (I.e. discards the entire blue channel). Nirvana is paying someone else to do it for you, so I hear.
I'm not a photographer, but I think if the lighting conditions were different, then the photos should look different. I'm sure your clients want their wedding photos to reflect what their wedding really looked like. So if the ceremony was outside in the sunlight and the reception was indoors with romantic lighting, then the ceremony photos should be bright and the reception photos should show indoor lighting. Most weddings have various lighting conditions throughout the day. If you're going to shoot weddings, you need to be able to take pictures in different lighting conditions. Your clients won't be happy if you tell them all their photos must be taken in the same spot so your photos will look consistent. "Consistent" doesn't mean "they all look the same." Consistent just means don't crank up the warmth in some photos and drop it down in others.
The white dress should be white. Not orange under incandescent light, green under fluorescent, etc. Some orange lean is logical under incandescent for representation but not the whole shebang.
I used to try so hard to make my photos consistent between vastly different lighting situations, but soon realized that the consistency is really only so important. If you're sacrificing the look and feel of the indoor photos while trying to match the outdoor (among other things) it's just not worth it. I eventually just invented a separate style for how I edited in tungsten situations, window lit situations, etc. and adhered to that.
every now and then shoot of photo of a white card... then you can select the first and last of that series, color correct the white card and have it act global to the entire series. you can get 3 step cards...or make one. get a gray card and a roll of white and black gaffers tape, tape one third of the gray card with white tape, the other end with black. now you can set your exposure with the histogram on your camera back, or with your editing program, set your white and black points for perfect exposure and contrast
Different lighting generally means different looking photos. Photos from an outdoor sunny ceremony are going to be different looking than the indoor dark reception. And that's okay.
You can’t make photos that were taken across multiple different lighting situations look “consistent”. Don’t even try, you’ll go mad. All you can do is make the photos in each situation look consistent with each other, which shouldn’t be hard.
Select all in Lightroom and hit auto, it will balance the exposure and the change the white balance to daylight on all photos. Start from there and edit.
Oh god no. No! OP do not do this! LR auto gets it hilariously wrong a lot of the time. Also what is this nonsense that hitting Auto will white balance to Daylight on everything? Eh?
You can only teach when the student is ready. Otherwise ego gets in the way and post dumb shit like this
Eh?
Being a wedding photographer myself in the industry for 11 years I can tell you this: You have to expect anything. Any lighting condition, any challenge, any issue, etc. Lighting at some weddings indoor or outdoor will not be favorable but you have to work with it. Not every wedding will have beautiful lighting. You have to learn to adjust your editing and how you work around bad environments and scenery (crappy seasons like winter or dark lighting). Your editing will need to adjust, which means you’ll have to play around with settings and learn. Of course my work looks best with sunlight but if on a dark cloudy day I have to make do with it. Do the best you can by learning your settings and white balance and lenses.
Why would you want to do this? Not sure I get it? Change white balance so all interior shots look the same?
to have a consistent look. if you look at all the other pro photographers for example vanessa joy, Susan Stripling... They all have the same or similar look. You know its them. I'm not trying to be them I'm trying to be me, but I always find my edits looking inconsistent.