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 05/14/2005 10:32:37 AM · #1
Is there such a thing as white balance in night photos? I don't think so.

They are many comment sposted for photos taken at night commenting on lack of white balance.
 05/14/2005 10:59:05 AM · #2
I hink there is. I can tae 2 photos of the same thing at night nd one will look orangey instead of black. Altho that could be to over-exposure.
 05/14/2005 11:14:53 AM · #3
Oh yes, white balance is just as important at night as it is in the daytime. It's complicated by the fact that man-made light sources have widely-varying spectrums, and it's not uncommon to have very different light sources illuminating a single shot. An extreme example is flash with tungsten lighting, which is guaranteed to present problems.
Outdoors, treat moonlight just like sunlight, which is what it is. Street lighting is probliematic. These are arc lamps, which have spectra that differ based on the gases used and the pressure in the lamp. thye have "spikey" spectra that include only a few, discrete wavelengths. Color rendition is poor to horrible, depending on the lamp design.
 05/14/2005 11:56:33 AM · #4
pavement /sidewalks are a nice grey
in my "night shot" i balanced against the road
to this

edit: must learn how to spel

Message edited by author 2005-05-14 12:00:17.
 05/14/2005 01:19:23 PM · #5
Originally posted by ralphnev:
pavement /sidewalks are a nice grey
in my "night shot" i balanced against the road
to this

edit: must learn how to spel


The one of the right, is too cool. The one of the left, is more accurate, though it could be toned down JUST A NOTCH.

I find that when shooting night time, its best to leave it at AWB and let the camera figure it out. It ususally does a great job of it. This was used with Auto White Balance, and there wasnt any corrections made to it.
 05/14/2005 02:10:39 PM · #6
My camera is not very good at noticing tungston light. It almost always turns the scene orange at night. Shooting in raw helps a lot though.
 05/14/2005 03:22:25 PM · #7
Originally posted by kirbic:

Outdoors, treat moonlight just like sunlight, which is what it is.

Hey, I never thought of it that way! That will be helpful when I'm gonna take night shots without artificial light. But how comes that to the human eye, moonlight has a blue feel to it?
Originally posted by alphnev:
edit: must learn how to spel

Uh, spell takes double-'l' ;)
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