You don't have to pick it at the time of shooting as you do when shooting JPEGs. Canon's DPP), you can apply any white balance you want. However when you save your images as RAW file, you are saving the raw data. The white balance setting affects how the camera processes the raw data coming from the sensor into the final JPEG image. All of the above discussion of white balance setting affects JPEG images produced by your camera. your camera has the option of saving RAW files and you choose that option. Why you don't need to bother about white balance if. Typically you place the neutral target in the same lighting that you will be shooting in, fill the frame with it, take a shot and instruct the camera to use that shot to make its white balance calculation. A neutral target is either a white card or a grey card, something with no color tint. Different cameras may have different methods of setting the custom white balance, but in essence they all work by you first taking a picture of a neutral colored target (white or grey) and then the camera using that to calculate the right white balance setting. This is the most powerful option and allows you to make color corrections that can't be made using any of the preset option, the auto option of the Kelvin option. Higher Kelvin settings then the "correct" setting makes the image look warmer (more red), lower Kelvin setting than "correct" make the image look cooler (more blue)įinally there's a "Custom" white balance setting on many cameras (and on all DSLRs and more advanced digicams). You can also tune the colors if you you want a warmer or cooler look. You might get a color balance that looks better to you at something other then the preset options. They may depend on time of day, how thick the clouds are etc. Why would you do this? Well both the "sunny" and "cloudy" settings are just general guesses. By choosing the Kelvin white balance option you can choose something between "Sunny" (5200K) and "Cloudy" (6000K), for example 5682K. For example, as shown in the table above for the Canon EOS 7D, the "sunny" WB setting corresponds to 5200K (don't worry what "K" is for now, I'll deal with that later), the "cloudy" WB setting corresponds to 6000K and the "shade" WB setting corresponds to 7000K. The K or Kelvin setting allows finer control. A higher K value makes images look warmer, a lower K value makes images look cooler.Įxamples of various different white balance settings applied to the same image On the other hand if you were shooting in sunlight but wanted the image to look cooler, you could select the "fluorescent" color balance. If you want it to look warmer still you could select the "shade" white balance.
For example if you want the image to look "warmer" and you are shooting in sunlight, you could select the "cloudy" white balance. You can also choose one of the preset options if you don't want "correct" colors. As long as your lighting doesn't change the images should be consistent in color. In this case the digital filter the camera uses to obtain the colors will be exactly the same from shot to shot.
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full sun, cloudy sky, deep shade etc., you can set white balance to one of those values. The filter setting it selects may be slightly different on every shot, even shots taken under the same lighting, but generally it gives pretty good results. While not perfect, the camera will analyze the image and use built in algorithms to make a best-guess at what digital filter will give the most accurate colors. When you're rapidly moving from indoors to outdoors and from sun to shade and you want the camera to try to do most of the work for you, choosing Auto white balance is a good idea. Most digital cameras, from high end DSLRs to simple P&S digicams, have a number of white balance settings such as Auto, Sunny, Cloudy, Shade, Flash, Fluorescent, Custom and Kelvin.
I'll get to the full explanation later in this article, but I'll start out with basic, practical information. That's the simple explanation, but there's a lot of digital technology and physics behind it. White balance is simply a "digital filter" which corrects an image for the color of the light source in order to record and display an image with the correct colors. White Balance and Color Temperature made simple
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