accesser Posted October 28, 2006 Share Posted October 28, 2006 Most digital cameras have a white balance setting its something I need to experiment with more I have noticed that using your own setting rather than auto can often give some much better results I was once taking pictures of some flowers in my yard and the Daylight setting gave much more realistic results than than the Auto setting the flower was in direct sunlight and was very brightly colored itself. I?ve also found the tugsten to be good for indoor shots with the household lights on. So what other settings can you guys recommend for different conditions can white balance be a creative thing to change the way the photo looks what setting would be good for a sunset sunrise for example. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Syphonic Posted October 28, 2006 Share Posted October 28, 2006 Depends on what was in the picture of the sunset/rise. Anyway, when it comes to difficult shots, HDR for the win :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tuckeratlarge Posted October 28, 2006 Share Posted October 28, 2006 Anyway, when it comes to difficult shots, HDR for the win :) And in English that means what exactly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madcappp Posted October 28, 2006 Share Posted October 28, 2006 High Dynamic Range = HDR It's when you take multiple shots of the same subject at different exposures and then 'blend' them together. With HDR sometimes you can get a good result, but a lot of the time you can't (mostly my opinion :)) And for the white balance setting, make sure you are shooting raw, because then in processing you can change the white balance to your liking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadrack Posted October 28, 2006 Share Posted October 28, 2006 High Dynamic Range = HDR It's when you take multiple shots of the same subject at different exposures and then 'blend' them together. With HDR sometimes you can get a good result, but a lot of the time you can't (mostly my opinion :)) And for the white balance setting, make sure you are shooting raw, because then in processing you can change the white balance to your liking. OMG OMG OMG! That is what I need for my lab microscope! I was actually working on my own macro do to this, but now that I actually know what it is called I can do some searches. Do you know of any freely available algorithms that will work off a stack of pictures that are the same size, same resolution, and of the same subject...just at different exposures? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madcappp Posted October 28, 2006 Share Posted October 28, 2006 You can use photoshop (File>Automate>Merge to HDR) or manually with layers and blending modes. Photomatix (http://www.hdrsoft.com/) is the only HRD program that i know of, and it has gotten pretty decent reviews. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foobah Posted October 28, 2006 Share Posted October 28, 2006 If your camera support custom white balance, use that. Point it at something perfectly white (carry some paper around, use a polystyrene cup etc) to set the wb, simple as that. Or shoot raw if you want to pp a lot, then you're not locked in to a set wb setting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
accesser Posted October 28, 2006 Author Share Posted October 28, 2006 If your camera support custom white balance, use that. Point it at something perfectly white (carry some paper around, use a polystyrene cup etc) to set the wb, simple as that. Or shoot raw if you want to pp a lot, then you're not locked in to a set wb setting. So its something white then I?ve heard about doing that. So then what is a grey card used for same thing ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madcappp Posted October 28, 2006 Share Posted October 28, 2006 Yea, that's what a grey card is for. My biggest suggestion is to shoot raw, so you can edit white balance later Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
accesser Posted October 28, 2006 Author Share Posted October 28, 2006 Yea, that's what a grey card is for. My biggest suggestion is to shoot raw, so you can edit white balance later Thanks (Y) will give that a go... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6785077276 Posted November 14, 2006 Share Posted November 14, 2006 This is how I use WB: Outside with no clouds, bright and sunny = Daylight WB Outside, cloudy = Cloudy WB Outside/indoors in the shade = Shade WB Basically, it is self explanatory. For sunset use cloudy/shade as the colours will be warmer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
accesser Posted November 15, 2006 Author Share Posted November 15, 2006 This is how I use WB: Outside with no clouds, bright and sunny = Daylight WB Outside, cloudy = Cloudy WB Outside/indoors in the shade = Shade WB Basically, it is self explanatory. For sunset use cloudy/shade as the colours will be warmer. Thankyou (Y) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyrana Posted November 17, 2006 Share Posted November 17, 2006 I have a quick WB question. Does it matter that much what you set it to if you shoot in RAW? I can pick a ton of presets, etc., when I load a RAW image in Lightroom/ACR/etc, and I've not been able to tell if there is any difference if I set it properly on the camera for the shot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6785077276 Posted November 17, 2006 Share Posted November 17, 2006 I have a quick WB question.Does it matter that much what you set it to if you shoot in RAW? I can pick a ton of presets, etc., when I load a RAW image in Lightroom/ACR/etc, and I've not been able to tell if there is any difference if I set it properly on the camera for the shot. Not really, no. In most RAW conversion software, it will just open the RAW file with the WB you set at the time of the shot. You can change WB easily in RAW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyrana Posted November 17, 2006 Share Posted November 17, 2006 Cool, thanks. I was sort of noticing that but just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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