White balance within photography is mainly used to help you to change the temperature of the colours to appear more like the naked eye. To measure the white balance the easiest way to look at it is that a candle hits around 1,000k and a clear blue sky measures around 10,000k. K stands for kelvins which is the measurements which are used to measure white balance. Below is a diagram which I have found to explain the kelvin scale. To show the use of the Kelvin scale within photography I took 5 images using the Lightroom mobile app's presets for white balance which are; auto white balance, incandescent, fluorescent, daylight and cloudy. These are shown below. I have utilised white balance throughout the digital photography unit. For example, when I was doing the seeing in black and white unit, I set the white balance to daylight which is around 5500-6500 kelvins. Also, when I was doing the food photography, I had to change the white balance accordingly due to using continuous lighting. References:
Kun, A., n.d. White Balance | Understanding White Balance in Digital Photography. [online] Exposure Guide. Available at: <https://www.exposureguide.com/white-balance/> [Accessed 17 March 2022].
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Comparing Paid v Free Editing SoftwareFor my paid software I used Adobe Lightroom Classic and for my free editing software I used BeFunky. As a photographer, my go to software would be the adobe suite. This is generally because it has a wider range of functions that you can do in comparison to the free packages. That being said, for someone that wants to edit an image for social media, I can understand why it would be easier and cheaper for them to just use free editing packages. Adobe Lightroom Classic As you can see above I edited the image that I chose using Adobe Lightroom Classic. For any software, there will be pros and cons. So first of all I will talk about the good points of adobe lightroom classic. There are a few things which stick out to me in regards to Adobe Lightroom Classic with that being that there is an ability to use masking to manipulate the images. This is a function that you will not really find in free software due to the complex nature of the task. Moving along nicely to the fact that you can batch edit in Lightroom Classic which is ideal for professional photographers that want all of their images to be consistent. For example, a wedding photographer may use Adobe Lightroom Classic to change all of their photos to black and white at a clients request. This being said, the packages are non user-friendly meaning that someone that has never seen any adobe packages would be overwhelmed to even try to edit using the adobe packages. I know I was and I sometimes still am. In addition, the cost of the adobe packages can be an issue making those on a low income unable to access these packages. Below is the image post-production. BeFunky As you can see above I edited the image that I chose using the online version of GoFunky. Straight off the bat, there is a positive point about using GoFunky and that is being that it is easily accessible to anyone that has an internet connection. Another positive point is that Go Funky is very user-friendly in the video above was the first time that I have used GoFunky and it was an easy pleasurable experience.
This being said, I have to remember all of the cons about the software from my own point of view. I will list these below:
Conclusion Taking all of this into consideration, I personally will still use Adobe Lightroom Classic. But, for other members of my family I will recommend GoFunky for them to use. I found that both Lighroom Classic and GoFunky had their own pros and cons, but if it was a fight between the two Lightroom Classic wins by a mile. |