White Balance Issues
Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 2:50 pm
Hi,
Following advice from an Andy Rouse book I have always left my camera on Auto White Balance. Yesterday I took a couple of photos of a moth and was suprised to see the difference the background made to the colour of the moth (see first composite image). The photos were taken exactly 40 seconds apart and nothing was changed except for the background.
I played around with the photos in Lightroom trying to get the moths to look the same. It was only when I changed the White Balance to "Daylight" on them both that they started to look similar (second composite). There was not much change to the bark background, but a big change to the leaf colour.
So, the questions are:
What White Balance settings do you all use?
Do you leave your camera on the same setting or do you change it to suit the weather conditions?
Do you know if the metering has any effect on White balance? (my camera is on Evaluative Metering)
I would be very interested to hear your comments. Now it looks as though I will have to go back and alter all my photos!!
Thanks,
Robin
Following advice from an Andy Rouse book I have always left my camera on Auto White Balance. Yesterday I took a couple of photos of a moth and was suprised to see the difference the background made to the colour of the moth (see first composite image). The photos were taken exactly 40 seconds apart and nothing was changed except for the background.
I played around with the photos in Lightroom trying to get the moths to look the same. It was only when I changed the White Balance to "Daylight" on them both that they started to look similar (second composite). There was not much change to the bark background, but a big change to the leaf colour.
So, the questions are:
What White Balance settings do you all use?
Do you leave your camera on the same setting or do you change it to suit the weather conditions?
Do you know if the metering has any effect on White balance? (my camera is on Evaluative Metering)
I would be very interested to hear your comments. Now it looks as though I will have to go back and alter all my photos!!
Thanks,
Robin