📸 Finding My Kelvin — issue .001
A simple tip to create a consistent look with your photography.
Hey friends!
Since I am truly fascinated with photography (and have been for over 11 years), I decided to make a sub-section of The Steward’s Journal called The Steward’s Photo Journal (lol).
If you are not interested in this topic, you can unsubscribe from this section and stay subscribed to the main newsletter. Otherwise, welcome to a photography-focused branch of TSJ. Glad to have you!
This publication will be less consistent. Mostly whenever I get the itch to share some photos, or some philosophy about my photos, tips and tricks I’ve found, etc.
Without further ado, here is Issue 001.
One trick to find a consistent photo look.
For many, many years I have tried hard to create a consistent theme in my photography to make that ever so delicious grid on Instagram.
Though, some would argue that this matters very little to being a good photographer, as for Instagram, having a consistent grid can be the difference between someone deciding to follow you or not.
I am at a point in my life where I am trying to pull back in caring how many followers I have/finding success online.
As a believer, I am finally coming to grips with the fact that social media as a whole is completely unnecessary to living a good life, and the pros that come with it become more and more outweighed by the cons when deciding if I should have these apps in my life.
However, outside of the grid, I think there is still something special to creating online galleries, or zines, etc. that follow a similar theme of colors and elements.
recently shared in a live stream that he sets his camera white balance to 6000k for most if not all of his photographs.Jason is a master of the grid, of consistency in his colors, composures, and motifs in his photography and it has helped him carve a path of his own in the photography community.
6000k is on the warmer side which I have always enjoyed in photos.
Therefore, I decided to crank it a little further at 6500k and have been taking all of my recent photos with this white balance constant.
I have also been setting my tint on the magenta side as I have never really enjoyed green tint in photos.
This was meant to be a really short post but here I am rambling on. I’ll leave you with this:
Find some elements that you enjoy about some of your favorite photos, see if there are any consistencies you could lock in. Be it composure, blocking, colors, vibrance/saturation or lack thereof, warmer or cooler tones, etc. etc.
Lock in those values and snap away!
Pro tip - even if you like snapping jpeg like me, make sure to double up with raw files so you can re-edit them down the line in case your styling changes over time.
Give
a follow and check out his Instagram and new YouTube Channel as well. His work is awesome and I’ve loved seeing some behind the scenes on his new YT channel.Until next time. Take care, and take photos!