Finding the Grey Point

[Andre Pretorius]

Hello to everyone

Herr Liedmann has accompanied us to our beloved Kalahari on our last trip.

I asked for advice with PP- "first you have to find a grey point for the WB." I wanted him to demonstrate, which he did.

In processing the image I tried to turn him into a Smart Object, did not work, went back to cloning...

None of the animals in this image were hurt in the making of this..

Cheers, Andreas..TFS..

[Gabriela Plesea]

...Andreas survived this exercise and obviously helped us get better pictures

Andre, you have forgotten to give us the techs...by the way, where was your FOCAL POINT?

[Rachel Hollander]

Andre - The problem was that Andreas needed to be further back, right between the lions for this method to really work.

,
Rachel

[Gabriela Plesea]

Rachel, I think Andreas did not want to come in-between the two lions

[Andreas Liedmann]

Hey thanks folks for keeping an eye on those lions , that they don´t get me , but actually they had eaten that night so i was pretty safe .
Think we had a stunning idea all together .

Only one crit i have , i am tall as you know , but not as tall as in this image compared to the lions .
Thanks a bunch for making our ideas come true .

Really lovely Andre .

Hoping for a next time

[Steve Kaluski]

Gabriela, you know someone might just try it!

BTW that mid grey point is 4.1% over, across all three channels, 54.1%.

[Gabriela Plesea]

Steve, at the time we were plotting this image, Andreas said "don't make it look too real"...I guess he had a point - not a grey one, but still a good point: if people believed this, no one would ever come with us on holiday again!

By the way, he was holding a piece of white paper in his hands - it was his Kalahari booking

Andreas, thank you again for all the humour and fun

[Christopher Miller]

Haha! Seems like a big risk to take just for a perfect white balance!

[Gabriela Plesea]

Indeed Christopher! The things we do to take better images

[Andreas Liedmann]

Hey Gabriela it was great fun to share all sorts of stuff on this great trip , my best in the last couple of years , specially from the social POV , and you made this possible for me . Meaning you and Andre together , rarely i had that many laughs during my trips .

[Steve Kaluski]

Steve, at the time we were plotting this image, Andreas said "don't make it look too real"...I guess he had a point - not a grey one, but still a good point: if people believed this, no one would ever come with us on holiday again!

Just could not resist it. If Andreas hadn't posted since you got back then I might have thought you guys took things a bit too serious in getting the ideal WB.

[Rachel Hollander]

Steve - I'm just jealous you didn't do this for me.

[Steve Kaluski]

Well we certainly had plenty of opportunities with Lions & Leopards, you just had to ask, I would have gladly pressed the shutter.

[Andreas Liedmann]

Hey folks now i see it would not even been necessary to use a grey card , this good old german is wearing GREY socks in combo with sandals ........... what a design disaster !!!!!!!!
Is looking horrible , good that my non photographer friends here at home will not see this . .

[Gabriela Plesea]

"...Is looking horrible , good that my non photographer friends here at home will not see this . "

Err...are you on Facebook?

Just kidding, my friend! I would not do this to you Especially since you had us in stitches every day over the radios...I still smile from ear to ear remembering the stuff you said

[Gabriela Plesea]

Rachel, I'll ask Andre to do one for me pronking (jumping) with the springboks in February

[Steve Kaluski]

Hey folks now i see it would not even been necessary to use a grey card , this good old german is wearing GREY socks in combo with sandals ........... what a design disaster !!!!!!!!

Would definitely agree on that Andreas, the left sock, (as viewed) has a far better mid grey point value than the card, so good call on that, but less so on the fashion side , at least they were not white !!!

[Andreas Liedmann]

I never wear white socks ........... so i can wear them longer

[Daniel Cadieux]

You know, walking among a few rhinos or swimming with some hippos you would not have had to hold up a card to get the grey point! Fun one Andre!

[Marc Mol]

this good old german is wearing GREY socks in combo with sandals ........... what a design disaster !!!!!!!!
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You beat me to it Andreas, .

[Cheryl Arena Molennor]

Funny thread guys! Thanks so much for the laugh

[Morkel Erasmus]

LOL I just nearly wet myself, great fun!