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The slower the film speed or digital ISO, the more detail and less noise will be apparent. Such is the case in this striking image by John Poppleton,
who often puts beautiful brides in industrial settings to produce visually incongruous images.
gether “scrubbed” layers. It’s amazing to see what can be
done with this action.
White Balance. Digital also allows you to change white
balance on the fly, providing more accurate color balance
from image to image. If you are shooting in deep afternoon
shade, for instance, you can set your white balance
appropriately. If you move indoors soon thereafter and are
shooting by tungsten room light, you can quickly adjust
the white balance to a tungsten or incandescent setting—
or rely on the camera’s auto white balance function to determine
the optimal white-balance setting.
Some manufacturers offer a wide range of white-balance
options that correspond to a range of color temperatures
(measured in degrees Kelvin). Others use more
photographer-friendly terms like “afternoon shade.” Most
also include settings for fluorescent and incandescent
lighting. Additionally, custom functions allow you to create
your own unique white-balance settings to correspond
to certain known shooting conditions or mixed-light
conditions.
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Obviously, the more flexibility you have in accurate
white-balance recording, the less color correction you will
have to perform later in Photoshop. Some camera systems
even offer a white-balance bracketing feature. The topic is
covered in greater detail on pages 44–45.
Color and Black & White. With some DSLR models
you can instantly shift back and forth between color and
black & white capture, creating even more variety in your
images. With film, this would require changing rolls or
cameras.
Quality Reproductions. With film, the negative or
transparency is the original image. When prints or copies
are made from that original, these second-generation images
suffer a falloff in sharpness and image quality. Digital
copies, on the other hand, maintain the integrity of their
data indefinitely and do not suffer any kind of degradation
in subsequent generations. A copy is every bit as good as
the original.
Reducing Costs. Bambi Cantrell, a noted wedding
photojournalist from the San Francisco area, routinely