WEEK2-WHITE BALANCE

Preset White Balance Settings

• Auto – this is where the camera makes a best guess on a shot by shot basis. You’ll find it works in many situations but it’s worth venturing out of it for trickier lighting.
• Tungsten – this mode is usually symbolized with a little bulb and is for shooting indoors, especially under tungsten (incandescent) lighting (such as bulb lighting). It generally cools down the colors in photos.
• Fluorescent – this compensates for the ‘cool’ light of fluorescent light and will warm up your shots.
• Daylight/Sunny – not all cameras have this setting because it sets things as fairly ‘normal’ white balance settings.
• Cloudy – this setting generally warms things up a touch more than ‘daylight’ mode.
• Flash – the flash of a camera can be quite a cool light so in Flash WB mode you’ll find it warms up your shots a touch.
• Shade – the light in shade is generally cooler (bluer) than shooting in direct sunlight so this mode will warm things up a little.

                                                  

                                                        

 

Preset White Balance

Digital cameras also have presets white balance options: sunlight and cloudy for outdoor and fluorescent, incandescent and tungsten bulb for indoor in case you need them. These will compensate the yellow or blue tint. Here are some examples for these on Canon PowerShot A520, indoor conditions. 

Auto White Balance 

Situations when auto white balance will not likely work proper are: beaches (yellowish tin), snow (bluish tin), cloudy weather, indoor photography, but also forests. This is why a lot of cameras have scene modes for these cases.

 

 

Here are several examples of comparison pictures using white balanced :

 

(Self Review)

White balance refer to the adjustment of relative amounts of red, green , blue and so on. So that, we can produced picture with neutral colors. For example if we want to take pictures of sky, we can set the white balance to be more blue, thus our sky pictures will looked more nature and nice. Other than that, it will give the sky color like to be live.

White balance is not related to the exposure. It only the appearance of color in the images. White balance is essentially  the camera compensating for the color cast of the light in order to reproduced the correct color. We must know to adjust the correct color which is white balance to produce an interesting pictures. So that our pictures will have a good color.