Problems setting white balance on camera - please help!
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astrogazer
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Ditto, much easier.
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8211669#post8211669 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by beerguy
Shoot RAW and correct it after the shoot.
The beauty of that approach is that WB doesn't get set until you're looking at it on the screen. You can then use that setting on the rest of your pictures.
astrogazer
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It's going to look blue, if you're shooting strictly actinic you'll be hard pressed to remove the blue and retain any semblance of natural color whatsoever. What you're shooting for is the colors to be seen as seen under the given lighting situation.
Here is a small zoo colony as seen under full tank lighting; a very small WB correction was done, thru variations, after RAW conversion, to obtain a pure white:
Here is the same colony, this was shot, illuminated from the side by a remote strobe and balanced to daylight during the RAW conversion process:
Here again is the same colony, shot under strictly actinic lighting, balanced to to about the Kelvin temp of a cloudy day during the RAW conversion:
Light plays a huge roll in our final images and is one of the few things we must learn to control, manipulate and master to be consistently good shooters. A little blue is not a bad thing, as you can see in the last image. My goal is to capture, as accurately as possible, what I see as I'm shooting and through the creative use of light to highlight the subject in the best way possible. Good luck and happy shooting, we want to see some of those images!
Here is a small zoo colony as seen under full tank lighting; a very small WB correction was done, thru variations, after RAW conversion, to obtain a pure white:
Here is the same colony, this was shot, illuminated from the side by a remote strobe and balanced to daylight during the RAW conversion process:
Here again is the same colony, shot under strictly actinic lighting, balanced to to about the Kelvin temp of a cloudy day during the RAW conversion:
Light plays a huge roll in our final images and is one of the few things we must learn to control, manipulate and master to be consistently good shooters. A little blue is not a bad thing, as you can see in the last image. My goal is to capture, as accurately as possible, what I see as I'm shooting and through the creative use of light to highlight the subject in the best way possible. Good luck and happy shooting, we want to see some of those images!
