Tag Archives: White Balance

White Balance

Posted on August 1, 2012 by Michael Willems

Since you presumably shoot RAW, the White Balance (WB) setting (and I do wish they had called it “Colour Balance”) is unimportant: you can set it later in Lightroom or your software of choice, for one image or for an entire group, … Continue reading →

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Set it yourself

Posted on May 8, 2011 by Michael Willems

Each light type has its own colour temperature (the redness or blueness of the light, where redder is “warmer”, and more blue is “colder”, in photographers’ terms). This colour is expressed as a temperature, which is measured in degrees Kelvin … Continue reading →

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Confusion reigns…

Posted on October 28, 2010 by Michael Willems

…but I am here to help you sort it out. I hear a lot of beginning (and some advanced) students who confuse white balance with exposure. This confusion is not surprising, since both have something to do with “this picture … Continue reading →

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Yellow balance

Posted on October 8, 2010 by Michael Willems

Just a quick note today, since I am travelling to Montreal and Quebec City. White balance is the process your camera uses to make white white. But you can also use it to distort an image’s colours to your liking. … Continue reading →

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Autumn tip

Posted on September 28, 2010 by Michael Willems

A quick tip for those of you who, like me, are in the part of the world where autumn is coming. If you want beautiful fall colours, you need to keep two things in mind: Brightness. Expose properly, and when … Continue reading →

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White Balance is/is not important

Posted on August 16, 2010 by Michael Willems

You know your camera’s White Balance setting. It should of course be called “colour balance”, but what with engineers doing the naming, science will trump understandability. So this setting sets your colours properly for the available light. Is it important … Continue reading →

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Oakville Sunset

Posted on July 26, 2010 by Michael Willems

Friday evening, this was the sunset as I was almost home: That colour is not photoshopped: it was real. For sunset pictures, remember this: Set your white balance to “daylight” (on the camera or, if shooting RAW, in Lightroom later). … Continue reading →

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Why set White Balance when you shoot RAW?

Posted on May 24, 2010 by Michael Willems

When you shoot RAW (as you probably should if your pictures are important t0 you) then your in-camera image processing settings are not important. Setting like colour space (AdobeRGB or sRGB), sharpening, noise reduction, colour saturation, saturation, white balance, and … Continue reading →

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See the light!

Posted on May 4, 2010 by Michael Willems

Tip of the day: To see the colour of the light you are shooting in, to really see it, take a first test-shot in every shoot with the white balance set to daylight (the sun symbol). That will show you … Continue reading →

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More technique:

Posted on March 24, 2010 by Michael Willems

Here’s me, shot by Christy Smith of Studio Moirae: Yeah, I model too. But wait. That cool blue urban look. Was it actually like that? No. The actual scene was like this. Here’s Christy and David Honl taking a test … Continue reading →

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