From the course: Underwater Photography: Wide Angle
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Strobes and the red channel - Lightroom Tutorial
From the course: Underwater Photography: Wide Angle
Strobes and the red channel
- [Deke] In part two of our examination of the elements of wide angle exposure, we're going to take a look at the relationship between the strobes, the foreground subject, and the red histogram. And the idea here is that where underwater photography is concerned, the real job of the red histogram is to report how your strobes are lighting that foreground subject. - [Hergen] So again, as Deke mentioned, in this movie we're going to look at strobes and their relationship to the red channel. So underwater, strobe light is, of course, the major source of red light. As we mentioned in previous chapters, we start losing light not just in amount, but also color, as we descend. Within the first five meters, we've basically lost all red light, so the only real red light in an image that we're taking underwater comes from our strobes. - [Deke] And I should just say here that this is not just red. We're talking about all warm colors, so reds, oranges, and yellows, all of them show up in this red…
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