2010-03-14 13:58 - Orange people make blue skies
This weekend I went to Amersfoort to do a photoshoot for a fantasy LARP group: The Inquisition of the Church of Kriegrimm. It was a fun day of shooting, and everyone was pretty enthusiastic about it! We met at the Koppelpoort in Amsersfoort, and I let them run all over the place for various individual and group shots. ;)
A downside of having many people gather in the same spot from all over the country is that you cannot easily move to a different date when bad weather happens. So, this being the Netherlands, bad weather happened. It was pretty cold, with ugly big patches of greyness in the sky, boring colors of continuously varying intensities, and the occasional rain shower.
Luckily, bad weather also presents opportunities! I got to be creative with of camera lights, to which I applied orange filters to make everybody looking orange. It's a neat trick that is all about color contrasts: if you make somebody too orange, the camera white balance wants to correct this, but it'll have the added side effect of making the sky more blue. Exactly what I wanted!.
I added the grainy structure and the almost desaturated warm "medieval" colors afterwards.
A downside of having many people gather in the same spot from all over the country is that you cannot easily move to a different date when bad weather happens. So, this being the Netherlands, bad weather happened. It was pretty cold, with ugly big patches of greyness in the sky, boring colors of continuously varying intensities, and the occasional rain shower.
Luckily, bad weather also presents opportunities! I got to be creative with of camera lights, to which I applied orange filters to make everybody looking orange. It's a neat trick that is all about color contrasts: if you make somebody too orange, the camera white balance wants to correct this, but it'll have the added side effect of making the sky more blue. Exactly what I wanted!.
I added the grainy structure and the almost desaturated warm "medieval" colors afterwards.
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