 fiona |
colour balance Im new to digital photography and recently purchased a canon 20D. But I am completely lost on the white balance? I recently took some pictures of a meeting in a room which had pink walls and tungsten lighting. I used the auto white balance setting,with a flash and the pictures came out terribly red and dull. Can anyone explain the ideas behind getting the right colour balance as Im totally lost on it?
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Jay A. Grantham |
I don't know enough to tell you to change the setting one way or another. But my first reaction would be to take more shots in the room with a willing participant and test different settings. Robin Nichols basically says the same thing. Good Luck.. share your lesson! --jay
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fiona |
Thanks for your speedy reply. I will experiment and do some tests with different settings. Cheers.
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Andrew Laverghetta |
The problem with this is that you had it set correctly for existing light photos, but when you used the flash that is what probably messed everything up. If you're going to shoot with flash either turn the white balance to flash or to daylight. Flash it almost exactly the same color temperature as daylight, just a tad blue-er. Usually, you should be pretty good leaving the camera in auto white balance. There are those who shoot exclusivley on one setting but I don't really think that's a good thing to get into the habit of doing. If you're outside in sunlight or you're using a flash, don't change the white balance away from daylight, flash, or possibly auto. If you're shooting without flash inside, this is when you need to worry about changing these settings. I don't like to use the tungsten setting though because it doesn't look as I see it. When I look at room with incandescent bulbs, I don't see normal blue daylight coming out of them, I see like a slightly yellowed/oranged white light. If you're not sure about the white balance and might like to use RAW format for some shots, maybe switch to RAW+JPEG so if the JPEG doesn't look good, you can open the RAW and you can actually change the white balance setting back to flash or daylight if you accidently had it on the wrong setting. You can switch to just RAW or just JPEG when you either get a better feel for the processing of RAW images, or when you get a better eye and instinct for color balance with JPEG shots. Hope this helps! Andrew
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