WB and grey card

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I am trying product shots and setting custom WB using a grey lastolite card thing.
When I look at the card placed where the product will be, should I zoom in and cover the view with grey, or should I zoom where I will be shooting and just have the grey in the centre of the view, or do I leave the zoom where I need it and bring the card towards the lens until the view is covered in grey?
 
Yep, RAW.
I thought if I used the EzyBalance, I could set the camera correctly and not have to do it in PP.
Is it better to fix it in PP, rather than try to correct it in the camera?
 
jmsjabb said:
Yep, RAW.
I thought if I used the EzyBalance, I could set the camera correctly and not have to do it in PP.
Is it better to fix it in PP, rather than try to correct it in the camera?
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Yes, you can. You just need to cover the centre circle in the viewfinder. The handbook explains.

You can also use a white card/paper/whatever for white balance - anything, so long as it is neutral with equal quantities of red, green and blue in it. Wedding photographers are quite fond of using a white tablecloth for the reception interiors.

The 18% grey bit is for exposure setting.
 
jmsjabb said:
I am trying product shots and setting custom WB using a grey lastolite card thing.
When I look at the card placed where the product will be, should I zoom in and cover the view with grey, or should I zoom where I will be shooting and just have the grey in the centre of the view, or do I leave the zoom where I need it and bring the card towards the lens until the view is covered in grey?
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Here's a link to some vids on the use of the WhiBal card that might be of use:
http://www.whibalhost.com/_Tutorials/WhiBal/01/
 
jmsjabb said:
Thanks John
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Your Welcome James.

MIcheal Tapes, the guy in the videos, goes back to the days of a software company called Pixmantec ApS out of Denmark. They sold a software package for the editing of Nikon RAW images named Raw Shooter Premium back in 2005 which was very good and a bargain at $69.00 USD. It was so good in fact that an outfit named Adobe bought them out and the result was a software package named Lightroom. Tapes stayed around thru the transition and then started his own company which we know as Raw Workflow. I benefited by being offered the 1st incarnation of Lightroom for only $99.00 and have upgraded to the current version ever since then. That's a bargain by any definition.
I've used the shirt pocket version of the Whibal card for about 5 years now and believe me it works. You might not like the particular results all the time however they are true to the actual lighting conditions. Micheal Tapes knows his business.
 
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