White Balance Question
Well...as the title says, I have a WB question.
Yesterday I was shooting an indoor onroad R/C race. Flourescent lighthing with an black asphalt track and green and white painted curbing. On some of the shots the WB is perfect. On others though the WB is VERY orange yellow. Why is that? I was not shooting auto WB so I thought the camera would use the settings I chose.
I was shooting with a Rebel XSi with a 50MM 1.8
Any ideas?
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Yesterday I was shooting an indoor onroad R/C race. Flourescent lighthing with an black asphalt track and green and white painted curbing. On some of the shots the WB is perfect. On others though the WB is VERY orange yellow. Why is that? I was not shooting auto WB so I thought the camera would use the settings I chose.
I was shooting with a Rebel XSi with a 50MM 1.8
Any ideas?
Mods, if this is not the right are please move accordingly. I just put it in here because of the types of shooting I was doing
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Makes total sense. Didn't even think of that. Thanks!
I ALWAYS shoot in RAW so at least I can "recover" the screwed shots. I was more just curious why it was happening. The bummer part about it is that it takes me so much longer in PP when I have to process a pic a little before I decide it if is a keeper.
Oh well. I have about 400 more indoor R/C pics to process. Thanks for the info and input guys.
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I agree. I just switched to the Color Checker Passport by Xrite and IMHO it is the best WB tool I have used.
You might try Lightroom 3 (even the trial) to batch import and adjust the WB en mass. Just create a preset and apply to all the suspect photos at once.
Wouldn't that be a great camera feature to have? A white balance that auto-senses the cycle of fluorescent lighting and matches the phase, like a white-balance version of image stabilization, so that all the shots have a consistent white balance? You'd probably sell that camera to every night sports photographer on the planet. Get Chuck Westfall on the line!
Interesting tools but I am concerned that because I am moving around the perimeter of the track and can't get to where the subject is that I may run into more problems.
Ya, I've got LR3. I did a batch WB adjustment but it still took me forever to process my race photos from last weekend. Probably 4 times as long as an outdoor race. Oh well!
That would be awesome abd would save me SO much time when shooting indoors. Oh well. One can dream can't they!
Thanks for the info guys. I suppose I will have to keep playing with workflow to try to reduce the time it takes me to process the shots.