400D - seems a little yellow

ZeroCooL

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Hi chaps/chapettes...

Whenever i take my photos and them edit the RAWs in Photoshop, if i set it as "As shot" they are always a little yellow - if i set them to "Auto" they are much more natural in colour.

Ive reset the settings and ive used the standard colour profile but i must be doing something wrong?

The preset photo modes like portrait/faithful etc are all pretty much 0,0,0,0 bar one or two...

any ideas where i should start to reset it or create a more accurate set up as im very new to this side of things!

thanks

Nick
 
Its due to white balance, not photo modes.. If you want it right straight from camera, set you WB correctly.
 
by doing this im assuming you mean in the environment that im shooting in do a fresh WB calibration?

Ive never actually done one.... ever...
 
Excellent stuff, thanks TC4... that will help!
 
Just looking at them on the bay now, dont seem that expensive tbh?

any good getting the lens cap grey 'card' or are they too small?
 
i have a 350D and pictures are yellow because of the WB saturating with warm color by default! take a look on your body setting!
 
Lowepro camera bags have a grey interia- I use that :thumbs:


Les :D
 
ZeroCooL said:
Whenever i take my photos and them edit the RAWs in Photoshop, if i set it as "As shot" they are always a little yellow - if i set them to "Auto" they are much more natural in colour.
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My 400D does the same (well, so does the 5D II) - pictures taken under artificial (tungsten) lighting always comes out too warm. I've read somewhere that Canon deliberately tweak it that way so the photos come out with a more realistic depiction of the lighting in the room. Right.

Shoot RAW and correct the WB later. I normally use the "Click white balance" tool and click on a known white area in the image (the whites of the eyes, teeth etc).

Cheers
 
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