Elinchrom users only- whatcha got?

Seanzky wrote in post #10915253
Guys, I've been hired to do this type of shoot. It's like a catalog kind of shoot with a mannequin on white. It's going down this Saturday with a designer for TH.

Any tips?

I know I'll blow out the BG to pure white and use an octa for the dress about 5' from the BG. I'd meter the shot, make sure I get enough details for each dress, put my camera on a tripod which would be slightly below the octa, and then keep rolling from there, dress after dress (about 40-50).

I'm really nervous about my color balance issue. Aside from auto-balance, I don't know how to set to custom with my Nikon. (Yikes!) Lol.

hi Sean, without using a color checker or grey card the only way i would do it is by setting my white balance to K

you can experiment until you find a temp that best represents the colour from your strobe

and then batch them later as they will all be consistently shot at the same temp

i'm sure Rob will have a better idea

Seanzky wrote in post #10915302
BTW, I can't believe how the Australians here can spend so much on Elinchrom when they should focus on paying Oprah's tab. LMAO! J/K!

Ed and his girls are my draw there

Seanzky wrote in post #10915253
I'm really nervous about my color balance issue. Aside from auto-balance, I don't know how to set to custom with my Nikon. (Yikes!) Lol.

I usually just set it to a fixed temp - daylight, flash, whatever - and go from there. Doing that allows you to batch correct it, whereas with AWB you're stuffed.

Seanzky wrote in post #10915253
Guys, I've been hired to do this type of shoot. It's like a catalog kind of shoot with a mannequin on white. It's going down this Saturday with a designer for TH.

Any tips?

I know I'll blow out the BG to pure white and use an octa for the dress about 5' from the BG. I'd meter the shot, make sure I get enough details for each dress, put my camera on a tripod which would be slightly below the octa, and then keep rolling from there, dress after dress (about 40-50).

I'm really nervous about my color balance issue. Aside from auto-balance, I don't know how to set to custom with my Nikon. (Yikes!) Lol.

Coffee filter WB trick


also on the link i hate how some BG are dark not really consistent with the others

sigma pi wrote in post #10915675
also on the link i hate how some BG are dark not really consistent with the others

Yeah, that wasn't great.

mickeyjuice wrote in post #10915728
Yeah, that wasn't great.

Yeah its weird its only teh first three that have that problem

sigma pi wrote in post #10915742
Yeah its weird its only teh first three that have that problem

test shots

mickeyjuice wrote in post #10915666
I usually just set it to a fixed temp - daylight, flash, whatever - and go from there. Doing that allows you to batch correct it, whereas with AWB you're stuffed.

even those numbers can change Mic, that's why i suggested a fixed one eg. 5500 K

I also got a cheap grey card from ebay. I am sure it is off a bit but I think for what I shoot I will be fine to be off that 1%

FJ LOVE wrote in post #10915761
even those numbers can change Mic, that's why i suggested a fixed one eg. 5500 K

Not according to Canon - the manual says Daylight is 5200K and Flash is 6000.

actually this is on a nikon so i dont know if this applies to him

Aren't you shooting in RAW? If so, it shouldn't matter what you set the WB to. Just shoot a Grey Card or a Color Checker once you have the lights set up, then do a batch WB setting to match all the images at once. It would only take 10 seconds in Lightroom or any other similar software.

sigma pi wrote in post #10915847
actually this is on a nikon so i dont know if this applies to him

Ah, yes. It probably is variable on a Noink

Sheldon N wrote in post #10915865
Aren't you shooting in RAW? If so, it shouldn't matter what you set the WB to. Just shoot a Grey Card or a Color Checker once you have the lights set up, then do a batch WB setting to match all the images at once. It would only take 10 seconds in Lightroom or any other similar software.

I always forget that some weird people don't shoot in RAW.

Just shoot it all raw and with fixed WB (something like K on canon would be best idea) + grey card (or color checker) wont hurt

mickeyjuice wrote in post #10915799
Not according to Canon - the manual says Daylight is 5200K and Flash is 6000.

i've had temp changes shooting daylight setting outside Mic but maybe it was just my error, don't know

oh i know what i did, i had a WB shift set