Duxford 25 Jan 2012

I very like when read your post. It’s great for me

I like this John Lennon quote.

On the subject of colour temp, it’s very easy to adjust in post-processing, in a program such as Lightroom or Photoshop. And you have the benefit of being able to experiment and change to your hearts content. Post-processing in digital = less time worrying while shooting.

Nice photos Orion. I havnt seen them hanging before only in the American hangar. I must pay another visit. Last visit was August 2010.

Great shots!!

Those photo’s do me realize that my last visit was to long ago(2004)!!

Hi Orion,

Nice photos.

“A friend and I visited Duxford today, a very deserted Duxford – really odd!” – Yes, I was there mid morniing on Friday 20th Jan, and it was really eerie at times being the only person wandering round.

There were a few other visitors around, but few seemed to venture far beyond the “Airspace” hangar – though the inclement weather probably put them off venturing too far.

However, it did mean I could take photos without worrying about people getting in the way! Yes, I agree light levels are poor/variable in the hangars, esp on a gloomy day if/when all doors are closed – I resorted to racking the camera ASA up fairly high myself (as flash only lights a very small area, so doesn’t work too well except as a “fill-in” to lift a few heavy shadows etc.).

Its a few years since I was last there and it was good to see the Beaufighter coming along, and the CR42.

Paul F

Nice shots.

Thank you, Anna

Regards

Nice set of photos, why is the colour change so different on the two photos of the B17 engine, white balance settings?

I was doing an experiment. I was unimpressed by the lighting in the hangar, by the amount and its colour temperatures which were very mixed and I wanted to see how a change would pan out when I viewed the pictures on the tele. To my mind the warmer photos (the shade setting on the camera) don’t reasonably reproduce the actual colours, but the singleton is too cold, too blue.

I’m pretty new to digital photography. I sold my film camera in 2005 when I took up video, but I bought my digi machine in 2008 although I haven’t used it much. I have to say that although I’m impressed with many aspects of digital photography the one thing I am disappointed by is the lack of real control over colour temperature as ‘built in’ to the camera. There isn’t the same ‘graduation’ of control that, in film photography, filters offer. I would have used an 82A in those conditions and it would have offered a solution. The pictures are ones I would expect with an 82C and it affects the results badly.

The solution I think is to use the ‘custom white balance’, but then I’m going to have to invest in one of these http://michaeltapesdesign.com/whibal.html or these http://www.expoimaging.com/product-detail.php?cat_id=1&product_id=2&keywords=ExpoDisc_Neutral&gclid=CNGw-smx360CFUkMtAod7mw17Q and that depends on just how much stills photgraphy I’m going to do.

Thank you for the kind comment and your query.

Regards

Nice shots.

Nice set of photos, why is the colour change so different on the two photos of the B17 engine, white balance settings?