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Controlling White Balance in Your Photos

Submitted by Barbara House on July 17, 2009 – 9:30 am
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There are always tons of questions from beginning photographers about how to correct white balance in their photos. Today’s digital cameras have many white balance options, including “scene modes” and manual white balance – but what’s it all really mean?

I was searching around the web looking for more information on White Balance, and stumbled across these references:

Light Sources and Their Color Temperature – How to Get Better …
You will have to adjust the kelvin scale on your camera to get a good balance between light sources. a shorcut would be to do a custom white balance against a white surface or a gray card or even use a EXPODISC (sample shots here). …

Get it off Auto Week 6 – White Balance
There are many different “colors” of light. Some light is more yellow , and some light is more blue. Some light is even green toned. Proper camera white balance has to take into account the “color temperature” of a light …

Photoshop Express Quicktip 6 – White balance
This episode shows how to fix the colours in your image using the white balance tool. You can test and sign up for Photoshop Express at www.photoshop.com/express. New tips will be released every couple of days. HD versions are available …

Why Auto White Balance Isn’t Perfect
These algorithms, however, are by no means perfect, including the auto white balance algorithm used to process the RGB sensor data into an accurate color image that resembles the scene you photographed. …

Auto Sync and White Balance
There’s one thing I have to chime in to what Brandon has covered so far: AutoSync, and it’s cousin Sync, totally rock in my experience for setting White Balance for a large number of photos after the fact. Think about it. …

Week Six – Tips For Better Photos
This week I am going to go over White Balance with you guys. HUH? Yep, White Balance. It is one of those buttons or dials on your camera that you were suppose to read about from lesson one. Oh Yeah, I remember now. …

How to use your White Balance button
In the dim, dark old days of film whenever we encountered a situation like the one on the left we were put in a bit of a pickle. Film is designed to be shot during the middle of a sunny day. Whenever you shoot film under different light …

So What’s all this White Balance Suff? (From Summit Daily News …
I’ve been teaching beginning digital photography workshops here in Summit County for several years, and one of the most common points of confusion for my students is their camera’s white balance setting. Many of my students are new to …

Balancing Act: White Balance and Your Images
Yesterday, I spoke about how important proper white balance is. A well balanced image shows very good, true colors. But how do we figure out that proper white balance? There’sa lot of ways, actually, and each method has some positives …

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Contributed by Barbara House

Barbara is the Editor-in-Chief for the Directory of Digital Photography, and an avid semi-professional photographer. Want to connect? Follow her on Twitter or FriendFeed.

One Comment »

  • Paul Dymond says:

    Hi there Barbara,

    thankyou for the link to my article on the White Balance button at Have Camera Will Travel. I hope your readers find it useful.

    cheers

    Paul

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