\nChanging the white balance makes a colour shift in the opposite direction to the colour temperature of the light source, to adjust the overall balance of the image to a correct colour rendition.<\/p>\n
Why do we do this?<\/strong> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Clear blue sky at midday is rated as daylight and classified as 5500\u00b0K and is deemed to be the ideal starting point. How we performed our test<\/strong> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Auto white balance<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Daylight<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Cloudy<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Shade<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Flash<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Cool white flourescent<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tungsten<\/p>\n Conclusions<\/strong> What are our recommendations?<\/strong> The question that gets asked time and time again, is: Which white balance setting should I use and why? The short answer is:\u00a0It depends upon the lighting. To illustrate the difference between individual camera settings, we ventured forth to one … Continue reading
\nThe reason that all sources of illumination emit light at different parts of the colour spectrum, as light is measured in degrees Kelvin.\u00a0 See our graph below for further explanation.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/gcmphotographic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/color_temperature_chart.jpg\")
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\nUnlike the human brain and eye combination, where the brain auto corrects the information fed to it via your eye to produce a perceived neutral colour, a camera is unable to perform this operation without additional information.<\/p>\n
\nThe camera and lens were mounted on our Manfrotto tripod, we aimed the camera across the beach, deliberately keeping the life saver (right side of frame) in shot, the reason being that it offered a neutral reference giving a very good example of the colour change effected.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\nColour is a very subjective thing.\u00a0 Everyone sees colour slightly differently, although this excludes colour blindness which tends to render colours vastly differently from the perceived norm.\u00a0\u00a0Also some people like to see an image warmer than others, purely because it looks more appealing.
\nRather than use the supplied preset colour balance, some purists will create a custom white balance for every photograph taken.<\/p>\n
\nTake a photograph in good daylight and try Daylight, Cloudy and Shaded settings, then view the results on a colour profiled monitor.\u00a0\u00a0Make your own decision to which looks most neutral and use this as your standard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"