Thursday, June 24, 2004
Tutorial On Setting White Balance
Posted by Suhit Gupta in "ARTICLE" @ 07:00 AM
I am seriously not addicted to setting the white balance on a camera, in fact I set the white balance manually in only about 40% of my photographs. It is just that I have been finding some good articles on the subject so I have been linking to them.
"If you come from the world of films, you may remember using filters to correct for incandescent or fluorescent lighting. Most people don't bother and their indoors pictures invariably come out with a yellow/orange or bluish cast. In the digital world, these correction filters are no longer necessary, replaced by a feature found in most -- even the entry-level -- digital cameras called, "White Balance.""
This article gives a ground up tutorial on what white balance is and how the various settings available in most cameras differ when it comes to the color of light. I definitely list this under recommended reading.
"If you come from the world of films, you may remember using filters to correct for incandescent or fluorescent lighting. Most people don't bother and their indoors pictures invariably come out with a yellow/orange or bluish cast. In the digital world, these correction filters are no longer necessary, replaced by a feature found in most -- even the entry-level -- digital cameras called, "White Balance.""
This article gives a ground up tutorial on what white balance is and how the various settings available in most cameras differ when it comes to the color of light. I definitely list this under recommended reading.
