Gaylord Texan - Lighting?

[rgm-photos]

I went to the Gaylord Texan in Gravevine with the family and found it to be an amazing location for photography. I saw a few wedding photogs there shooting bridal portraits. I took a few images myself of the family and now I have scheduled a couple of TFP shoots there. However, I have notice in my images, there is a green tint to them from the green glass roof .

Does anybody have any experiences shooting at the Gaylord Texan? How did you overcome the color cast? Post or Pre-production?

[jeffkohn]

I've not heard of this location, but then again I don't get out to Katy all that often (I'm in NW Houston so it's a bit of a drive). What type of place is this, care to share your pics? Do you know what their "official" policy is on photographers using it as a shoot location?

As for the color cast issue, probably your best bet is to use a custom white balance. If shooting JPG you'd need to do this in-camera, if shooting RAW you can do it after the fact during conversion. IMHO setting WB is much easier with RAW because all you have to do is shoot a reference shot of a gray card and then you can easily set WB later.

Another option if you want to preserve some of the ambient lighting for the background without getting greenish skintones is to use fill-flash on your subjects. How effective this approach would be is going to depend on how much ambient light there is and how strong the color cast is.

[rgm-photos]

Jeff,

This makes me chuckle. I'm originally from Houston (Champion Forest area)

Actually, the Gaylord Texan is a very large Hotel/Conference resort in Grapevine, Texas. This is in between Dallas and Fort Worth. It is a structure that has recreated the San Antonio Riverwalk, but indoors. It has a very larger glass roof structure, thus it provides plently of natural lighting.

I will take your ideas into consideration. Although, I'm originally a film shooter, thus I believe in color correcting within the camera and not in the computer. (GOSH, I hope this doesn't start another one of those topics)

However, I just got the D70s, so I will have to learn something new.

Thank you,

p.s. I still favor the Houston Texans! Sorry Dallas.

[jeffkohn]

D'OH!!! Guess I read your post a little too fast, don't know how I made the jump that you were talking about some place in Katy (your profile location should have been a clue if I had noticed it). Hadn't heard of the Gaylord Texan before but it looks like an interesting place, might have to check it out the next time I'm up that way.

RE: White Balance, absolutely you should get it right in-camera if you're shooting JPEG, because if you don't fixing the problem later can be difficult or even impossible. RAW is a little different though because the in-camera WB setting is just a metadata tag in the RAW file, it has no bearing on the actual image data recorded in the NEF. You can can change the WB setting at the time of RAW conversion with no ill effects whatsoever. So there's no technical reason to get the WB exactly right in-camera, it just comes down to a matter of what you find more convenient for your workflow.

You do want the in-camera WB to at least be in the ballpark though, because it has an impact on the in-camera histogram and highights warning.

Regards,

[jordankreationz]

Originally Posted by rgm-photos

Jeff,

This makes me chuckle. I'm originally from Houston (Champion Forest area)

Actually, the Gaylord Texan is a very large Hotel/Conference resort in Grapevine, Texas. This is in between Dallas and Fort Worth. It is a structure that has recreated the San Antonio Riverwalk, but indoors. It has a very larger glass roof structure, thus it provides plently of natural lighting.

I will take your ideas into consideration. Although, I'm originally a film shooter, thus I believe in color correcting within the camera and not in the computer. (GOSH, I hope this doesn't start another one of those topics)

However, I just got the D70s, so I will have to learn something new.

Thank you,

p.s. I still favor the Houston Texans! Sorry Dallas.

How awesome that looks! My husband and I are staying for 2 or 3 days in October there...I can't wait!!!!!!

DJ