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05/04/2006 09:24:39 PM · #1 |
I regularly browse photo magazines in bookshops here in Japan. I actually bought one which has cards for adjusting white balance.
All together, there are sixteen different shades for making your shot have a warm, cool, green or yellow tone.
Here are some examples:
 
 
Of course, if you submitted such shots for a challenge, you'd get comments a-plenty that the White Balance is off.
Here's another example:
 Yellow-toned white balance
 WB adjusted to "normal" in RSE, resulting in pleasing purple-tinged ends of the wheat.
So, here's my question - What use are the cards really if you can adjust the white balance in your post-processing?
p.s. I've put the photos in my Workshop folder - is that ok? |
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05/05/2006 09:06:50 AM · #2 |
I thought I'd bump this, and add
for which I manually changed the WB using one of the cards (plus another technique which I'm not divulging because nobody is interested...) |
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05/05/2006 09:13:52 AM · #3 |
| I guess your saying that there is little to no room for artistic expression unless its done via editing??? Interesting post and thanks for the knowledge. |
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05/07/2006 05:25:31 AM · #4 |
If you shoot in raw then the cards are of no use because no white balance is set to the image except for i for review puposes in camera. In raw you set the white balance when you open adobe bridge or in your case raw shooter.
This is done for a couple main reasons-
1. Cameras can be fooled and set the wrong white balance so this gives you the chance to correct it
2. You can set an "incorrect" white balance and alter the tones of the picture to suit your vision
The cards would be of use if you were shooting in jpeg mode and wanted to deliberately alter the white balance. In jpeg mode the white balance is saved to the image itself and cannot be altered in post processing. |
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05/07/2006 08:12:47 AM · #5 |
| Point as shoot cameras (i.e. not SLRs) generally don't offer RAW so you have to change white balance before the shot is taken. You don't get the same options when post processing jpegs. |
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