How many pros DON'T CWB?

Custome wb vs in camera wb

  • In camera

    Votes: 15 55.6%

  • Custom

    Votes: 7 25.9%

  • Other

    Votes: 5 18.5%
  • Total voters
    27
Robbo

Robbo

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After a few recent topics on here and comments saying the standard flash wb and normal in camera wb as good enough not to custom White balance with either White or grey with which ever technique you use. I am now curious as to how many of you pros, studio or other just use the in camera setting with no pp wb tweaks. And images are for paying customers.
 
Most of my stuff is outside, constantly changing situations so I go with the camera.
 
Yes shoot raw, but you still need some form of setting White it grey points.
 
I have done a little work experience in 2 professional studios. Both of them used cameras tethered to PCs. Their first shot would include a grey card and this would be used to set the white balance of every subsequent shot.
 
The Matt said:
I have done a little work experience in 2 professional studios. Both of them used cameras tethered to PCs. Their first shot would include a grey card and this would be used to set the white balance of every subsequent shot.
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On a studio setup, I shoot raw but set my camera WB to flash, so the customer has a 'basic' colour reference when they see the pics on the back of the camera. First couple of shots include a WB card. At the end of the shoot all the raw's go into lightroom, grab the WB from the reference shot and paste the settings to the rest of the pics
 
All my studio work is custom white balance. Setting 1 for flash and setting 2 for tungsten so I can switch easily if I want shallow depth of field.

For studio work but on location I use the ezy something from lastolite (and take a photo of it) or a Kodak grey card to set a new white balance in case any of the ambient light is affecting the colour.

I shoot RAW but it is still nice to have correct white balance out of camera.
 
Out and about (or with SB900) use camera WB. Using lights, select 5600 manually... ALthough there are occasions when I forget to put back onto auto after!
 
Auto WB; shoot Raw...

...unless...

I'm using my studio lights, then I shoot on the flash-setting with a bit of compensation dialled-in as my Bowens lights are a leeedle beet too warm...
 
AWB for the majority of my outdoor shoots (other than using cloudy setting in winter to warm things up) and a custom 4300K setting for our studio set-up.
 
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