White Balance?

catspaw

I at least classify this as 'technique', but is there a WB 101 doc or thread around here? I've got everything else in the camera OFF of automatic (ISO, etc), except for the white balance.

pathfinder

You can shoot in RAW and white balance later in your Raw converter of choice. Or you can set a custom white balance at the time of exposure with a number of different tools - Exposdisc, BalanceBetter reflector, WHiBal card, or a SpectraSnap filter are a few of the tools to be found.

I wrote about using them here

When shooting jpgs with a custom white balance, proper exposure is critical. If you exposure is off by more than 1/2 stop, your white balance may vary also.

Tee Why

If you are interested in total manual control and are shooting under a consistent lighting situation, you can set a custom white balance off of a card made for setting white balance and fine tune it more if you shoot RAW during post processing.

Photobycate

Leah,

Here is a link to Beechers Handouts. This site if an online photographers handbook that should answer your questins:

http://www.photokaboom.com/photography/learn/ebooks/Beechers_Handouts/19a_white_balance_introduction.htm

Regards,
Cate

catspaw wrote:

I at least classify this as 'technique', but is there a WB 101 doc or thread around here? I've got everything else in the camera OFF of automatic (ISO, etc), except for the white balance.

catspaw

note to self: get used to shooting in RAW ....