Side Effects: Special Effects for Photographers

Photographer: Scott Kelby  Exposure: 1/400  Focal Length: 200mm  Aperture Value: ƒ/2

The name of this chapter comes from the 2009 movie short Side Effects (it’s less than 20 minutes long, which is probably why you can buy it for only $1.99 in the iTunes Store. It’s either that, or it’s so cheap because of its lack of zombies). Anyway, here’s how they describe Side Effects (say this in your best movie voice-over guy voice): “An ordinary guy becomes a human guinea pig in an experimental drug test and meets the girl of his dreams...” Sounds like a pretty typical everyday story. At least the human guinea pig in an experimental drug test part. Anyway, I looked at the movie poster, and the guys in the poster all have this creepy-looking bluish/green color cast that makes them look kind of sickly, but then the female lead’s photo looks fine, with regular-looking flesh tones, and that’s when I realized why this guy thinks he’s found the woman of his dreams. She doesn’t have a creepy bluish/green color cast. I mean, think about it. If all the girls around you had a serious white balance problem, and then all of sud....