From the course: Learning Craft Photography
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Correcting color balance
In this movie, I want to talk about color correcting your craft photography. Now, depending on what time of day you shoot photos of your craft, you're probably going to get a very different color cast. The example on screen is a photograph I took of these little clay earrings that I made to look like those little candy hearts that are popular around Valentine's Day. And so I made a collection of earrings and I was going to give them out to some of my friends, but I wanted to take a quick snapshot, a quick photo before I did that. I was shooting in my kitchen, which is effectively a giant light box. I've got three corners with very bright light coming in and I have white curtains that just diffuse all the light. But I was shooting early in the morning and the sun wasn't super high, so I got a very bluish look to my photo. And if I were shooting late in the afternoon, outside, this could have potentially become very yellow, orange, pink, depending on the direction of the sun and the…
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