White balance

Jeffrey Friedl has written an excellent overview on the Digital camera white balance.

Most of the photographers I know (even professional ones) do not understand what White balance is and they just leave it in auto most of the time, without touching it again in post-processing. I spend few min on each of my photograph to get the right balance and right temperature in post-processing as it makes a BIG difference in how your photograph will look finally.

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  1. eppendorfs · June 29, 2006 Reply

    White Balance makes a world of a difference to us too! We do a lot of microscopy of human and animal tissue for diagnostic and research purposes, and unless u white balance, you can get a completely different color and that can mean a different diagnosis or result ( research).Most of these new generation microscopes ( each costing a million dollars) have so many features that it takes months just to understand how they work best!

  2. redobsession · June 29, 2006 Reply

    i agree. i take multiple shots with different settings. i love what it does to night shots sometimes.

  3. amoghavarsha · June 29, 2006 Reply

    Like always, That’s why you need a SLR in the first place *raw*

  4. admin · June 29, 2006 Reply

    When I was using the Coolpix, I was cheating a bit. Since it would give me instant feedback with my set settings, I would adjust the temperature.. till it looks just right for me. And if I remember correctly, that camera actually had raw support 🙂

    But yeah, I rather not shoot if I’m not shooting in raw 🙂

  5. fiery_fiona · June 29, 2006 Reply

    thanks

    Though i knew about the white balance,read through the blog and pretty good.

    Was not aware of the RAW FILE feature in cameras and discovered my SD110 doesnt have the same! 🙁

  6. jace · July 1, 2006 Reply

    That is interesting. Since the microscopy is under controlled conditions, wouldn’t the lights be pre-caliberated?

  7. Anonymous · July 3, 2006 Reply

    I guess they are not! , though i am not really sure about it.

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