Photo Help Please - Tool Colors

[scottg]

 I was trying to get a color shot. Trying to capture colors as close to the way my eye sees them.
I realize your monitor is not the same as my monitor. All monitors are different.

Whatever I did the colors on a computer were never the same as what I see. I used Adobe and got them closer. But still not as subtle as in real life.


I tried different approaches.
OK here are some colored handles.
what do you like?
 yours Scott

[Papaw]

As you can see, the background is one thing that controls the colors you see. The "White Balance" is another, especially with digital cameras. You must set the white balance to the type of light you are using as your main light. If you ever delved into photography back in the film days, you might remember the gray card used to see what exposure you needed.
Most digitals will offer you auto white balance, but can be easily overpowered by the sun like in the photo with the sky as background.
I think your third one would have been right if it were not overexposed.

[Mel Larsen]

I just went to 3 hour class on digital photography, no one on one, but I did hear the man say that the best result would be with the camera set to "cloudy day",  it seams to me to work OK.   The manual for my camera is over 200 pages, how am I going to remember all that?  He told us about a program that would set your monitor to show more like you actually see photos.  if I can find it I will post it..
Mel

[rusty]

>the colors on a computer were never the same as what I see

They never , really, will be, the dynamic range of your eyeball is an order of magnitude higher than the cameras....

For effect, I like the third one also, tho, perhaps with just a little more ambient light...

Transparent is tough, you don't see what is really there, because your eye is focused on the wrong light source (from the point of view of how bright the camera will percieve the picture), plus, you are taking pictures of plastics with color dyes that likely flouresce in sunlight, just to somplicate things even more...;P

[scottg]

>the colors on a computer were never the same as what I see

They never , really, will be, the dynamic range of your eyeball is an order of magnitude higher than the cameras....

For effect, I like the third one also, tho, perhaps with just a little more ambient light...

Transparent is tough, you don't see what is really there, because your eye is focused on the wrong light source (from the point of view of how bright the camera will percieve the picture), plus, you are taking pictures of plastics with color dyes that likely flouresce in sunlight, just to somplicate things even more...;P

 You are absolutely right about the dyes changing color when the light hits. There are actually 3 colors of red to my eye, viewed inside.  They all look the same outdoors and backlit. All the yellows and oranges are different from each other too. That is why I picked them. They look too much alike in my pictures.

Yeah I can get colors to play with, but having colors, and with screwdriver surface details showing, is not happening.

In the middle picture, with flash, you can see the contours of the drivers, 
 (the orangest driver says
 unbreakable. It should have read  made in Canada uncomfortable as it was sharp enough to slice flesh when I met it, heh).
  but the color is for crap.
 
 With colors in backlight, I get color but no detail of the driver.  I think tomorrow around sunset or a little before I'll set the camera in the western window and try to see if I can get both back light and little flash or front light too??
  yours Scott

[rusty]

Some of those handles will glow under black light ;P

Something else to play with, if you have thermopane windows, they have a coating that will reduce UV light, which is what is making the plastic dye's flouresce......

(I love some of the transparent handle colors, but, for some odd reason, those colored handles make me hungry, they probably remind me of those transparent geletin candies ...)