88 Better Available Light Digital Photography
Shade: approximately 8000 K
If you’ve been making photographs for a while, you know that
shade can add a bluish cast to portraits. That’s why many fi lm
photographers would use Skylight or warming fi lters whenThis shot was made in the shade
along the shoreline of Barr Lake.
The lighting is fl at, and cooler
than a daylight portrait might be.
Depending on how accurate repro-
duction is, Helen’s top has blue in
the shadows, which is probably
also cooling her skin tones. This is
the unretouched image with an
exposure of 1/125 sec at F/5.6 at
ISO 200. © 2005 Joe Farace.
If you don’t correct the image’s
color in-camera by choosing
the Shade setting, you’re going
to have to do it later in the
digital darkroom. My favorite tool
for this is PictoColor’s (www.
pictocolor.com) iCorrect EditLab
Pro, a Photoshop-compatible
plug-in. I clicked on the blue tones
in her white top to make it neu-
tralize the color in the entire
image fi le. © 2005 Joe Farace.