Always check your white balance

[Pirate Neilsouth]

When doing photography make sure you have the correct white balance set for the scene at hand. Example i had set the white balance to shade to give me a boost in colours however this doesn't always work :nono:

BEFORE ( Shade Light Balance ).

Notice how its WAY WAY too orange!

AFTER ( Using Sunlight White Balance or Colour Correction in Adobe )

So set it right! , should be called WB on your camera

 

[JustJoe]

Don't castrate me but I prefer the first.

 

[Pirate Neilsouth]

haha thats ok

A slight warm up would do ok , but still a incorrect wb can ruin a shot

 

[Dangermouse]

I do play with kelvin quite a lot and sometimes do forget what I have it set on so I always check first ....dark room temp turns a nice dark blue sky white and 3500 turns a nice scene orange so shoot in raw is first rule but do check wb religiously

 

[strax]

Shoot in Raw and worry about White Balance later.

 

[Pirate Neilsouth]

Shoot in Raw and worry about White Balance later.

That was in Raw

 

[Myky D]

What on earth is "incorrect" white balance?

Personally I'm quite a fan of the Tungsten setting.

 

[68lbs]

I always just leave my camera on auto WB and adjust it (if necessary) in ACR afterwards. TBH I rarely need to adjust it.

 

[F-Stop]

I always just leave my camera on auto WB and adjust it (if necessary) in ACR afterwards. TBH I rarely need to adjust it.

I do the same thing. It bites me in the butt every once in a while, but not often. Sometimes, the white balance is hard to adjust. Well, not hard.. just difficult to make look good.

 

[smithphoto]

I always leave it in auto WB, shoot in RAW and adjust it later the same as some other people here. It's always fun trying the different WB settings afterwards, to see whether it improves a picture or not.

 

[AB22 Easy Tiger]

I tend to shoot in Shade WB - but I shoot RAW anyway so can fiddle with it later.

I learned the hard way though. Shortly after I got my first camera I was shooting in the Arizona desert and had forgotten to change the WB from Tungsten.

Everything came out witht he strangest colour cast - and of course I was shooting jpegs. I rescued what I could with my limited PP skills but I've never shot a single jpg since.