WHITE BALANCE
This exercise will help one with the thought of starting to recognize the TEMPERATURE of the light during the day. So lets have fun and enjoy.
Red, blue, & green plays along with the COLOR of TEMPERATURE, every color photograph ever made has some degree of these colors in them. HOW much of a degree depends on the color Temperature of Light. LIGHT like the human body, it has a temperature. Though, unlike the human body, temperature of light is measured by its color. This is where it gets kind of funny for new photographers. BLUE light has a higher temperature than RED. This is where Color of Temperature is measured by what is called the KELVIN SCALE. On any given day when light falls on our world light is measured in degrees Kelvin, roughly (2,000k - 11,000k). So, a color of temperature of 7,000k-1,000k is considered cool (blue shades will fall in this range). A color of temperature of 2,000k-4,000k is considered warm (reds would fall in this range). A color of temperature between 4,000k-7,000k is considered "Daylight" some call this harsh light mid-day (combinations of red, green, blues). With all this being said:
COOL LIGHT = Cloudy, rainy, foggy, snowy or areas of shade on sunny days.
WARM LIGHT = Golden Hours, light a bit before sunrise to 2 hours after sunrise and 2 hours before sunset to 20-30mins after the sun set.
HARSH LIGHT = These hours are usually from 2 hours after sunrise to 2 hours before sunset.
The EXERCISE to work with today is to setup your camera in the RAW format, NOT jpg, along with the camera in the Manual mode, set any f-stop number, set your shutter speed, but have an ISO 100. Take a photograph of the same subject using every WHITE BALANCE setting (daylight (5200k), shade (7000k), cloudy (6000k), tungsten (3200k), white fluorescent (4000k)). Just USE these white balance settings. You will notice when you select the white balance in your camera you will see the Kelvin Temperature. You should have 5 photos. When you post each photo, along with the description of camera settings also tell which white balance setting along with Kelvin temperature.
SHOULD YOU NOT BE ABLE TO FIND THE WHITE BALANCE SETTINGS IN YOUR CAMERA BREAK OUT THE MANUAL, THIS SHOULD HELP VERY MUCH or you can email me and I will see if I can help you. Remember this is to have fun and enjoy, you should get a feeling for your camera soon and MORE TO COME.
Canon T3i; 100, f5.0, 1/5, WB Daylight 5200k
Canon T3i; 100, f5.0, 1/5, WB Shade 7000k
Canon T3i; 100, f5.0, 1/5, WB Cloudy 6000k
Canon T3i; 100, f5.0, 1/5, WB Tungsten 3200k
Canon T3i; 100, f5.0, 1/5, WB Flourescent 4000k
Merlin1300
Loc: New England, But Now & Forever SoTX
sportyman140 wrote:
WHITE BALANCE
This exercise will help one with the thought of starting to recognize the TEMPERATURE of the light during the day. So lets have fun and enjoy.
Nice tutorial.
Another way to see the effect of the White Balance (WB) setting is if your camera will capture RAW data. Then - when you edit the RAW file in Post - you can run the slider through the WB / Kelvin Degrees settings and see ALL of the results as applied to the same image. The point at which the slider causes the on-screen image to match the way you remember the shot when you took it will show you the WB temperature of the scene you photographed.
Merlin1300 wrote:
sportyman140 wrote:
WHITE BALANCE
This exercise will help one with the thought of starting to recognize the TEMPERATURE of the light during the day. So lets have fun and enjoy.
Nice tutorial.
Another way to see the effect of the White Balance (WB) setting is if your camera will capture RAW data. Then - when you edit the RAW file in Post - you can run the slider through the WB / Kelvin Degrees settings and see ALL of the results as applied to the same image. The point at which the slider causes the on-screen image to match the way you remember the shot when you took it will show you the WB temperature of the scene you photographed.
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You know that and I know that, I was taking this on to help inexperienced amateur photographers to get a grasp on using their cameras. I was asked to do this a an exercise method to take over where Rockin What you Got left off. I didn't do it to give the person ans easy way to go in PP to learn it. But thatnks for the Info.
Glad to see someone doing this again, thanks for your work.
sportyman140 wrote:
WHITE BALANCE
This exercise will help one with the thought of starting to recognize the TEMPERATURE of the light during the day. So lets have fun and enjoy.
Red, blue, & green plays along with the COLOR of TEMPERATURE, every color photograph ever made has some degree of these colors in them. HOW much of a degree depends on the color Temperature of Light. LIGHT like the human body, it has a temperature. Though, unlike the human body, temperature of light is measured by its color. This is where it gets kind of funny for new photographers. BLUE light has a higher temperature than RED. This is where Color of Temperature is measured by what is called the KELVIN SCALE. On any given day when light falls on our world light is measured in degrees Kelvin, roughly (2,000k - 11,000k). So, a color of temperature of 7,000k-1,000k is considered cool (blue shades will fall in this range). A color of temperature of 2,000k-4,000k is considered warm (reds would fall in this range). A color of temperature between 4,000k-7,000k is considered "Daylight" some call this harsh light mid-day (combinations of red, green, blues). With all this being said:
COOL LIGHT = Cloudy, rainy, foggy, snowy or areas of shade on sunny days.
WARM LIGHT = Golden Hours, light a bit before sunrise to 2 hours after sunrise and 2 hours before sunset to 20-30mins after the sun set.
HARSH LIGHT = These hours are usually from 2 hours after sunrise to 2 hours before sunset.
The EXERCISE to work with today is to setup your camera in the RAW format, NOT jpg, along with the camera in the Manual mode, set any f-stop number, set your shutter speed, but have an ISO 100. Take a photograph of the same subject using every WHITE BALANCE setting (daylight (5200k), shade (7000k), cloudy (6000k), tungsten (3200k), white fluorescent (4000k)). Just USE these white balance settings. You will notice when you select the white balance in your camera you will see the Kelvin Temperature. You should have 5 photos. When you post each photo, along with the description of camera settings also tell which white balance setting along with Kelvin temperature.
SHOULD YOU NOT BE ABLE TO FIND THE WHITE BALANCE SETTINGS IN YOUR CAMERA BREAK OUT THE MANUAL, THIS SHOULD HELP VERY MUCH or you can email me and I will see if I can help you. Remember this is to have fun and enjoy, you should get a feeling for your camera soon and MORE TO COME.
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Merlin1300
Loc: New England, But Now & Forever SoTX
sportyman140 wrote:
Merlin1300 wrote:
sportyman140 wrote:
WHITE BALANCE
This exercise will help one with the thought of starting to recognize the TEMPERATURE of the light during the day. So lets have fun and enjoy.
Another way to see the effect of the White Balance (WB) setting is if your camera will capture RAW data. Then - when you edit the RAW file in Post - you can run the slider through the WB / Kelvin Degrees settings and see ALL of the results as applied to the same image.
help inexperienced amateur photographers to get a grasp on using their cameras. I was asked to do this a an exercise method to take over where Rockin What you Got left off.
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Another point is - very few of the P&S cameras, and only some bridge cameras, have the capability to store and/or permit PP on RAW data.
Your technique will work on ALL cameras.
sportyman140 wrote:
WHITE BALANCE
This exercise will help one with the thought of starting to recognize the TEMPERATURE of the light during the day. So lets have fun and enjoy.
Red, blue, & green plays along with the COLOR of TEMPERATURE, every color photograph ever made has some degree of these colors in them. HOW much of a degree depends on the color Temperature of Light. LIGHT like the human body, it has a temperature. Though, unlike the human body, temperature of light is measured by its color. This is where it gets kind of funny for new photographers. BLUE light has a higher temperature than RED. This is where Color of Temperature is measured by what is called the KELVIN SCALE. On any given day when light falls on our world light is measured in degrees Kelvin, roughly (2,000k - 11,000k). So, a color of temperature of 7,000k-1,000k is considered cool (blue shades will fall in this range). A color of temperature of 2,000k-4,000k is considered warm (reds would fall in this range). A color of temperature between 4,000k-7,000k is considered "Daylight" some call this harsh light mid-day (combinations of red, green, blues). With all this being said:
COOL LIGHT = Cloudy, rainy, foggy, snowy or areas of shade on sunny days.
WARM LIGHT = Golden Hours, light a bit before sunrise to 2 hours after sunrise and 2 hours before sunset to 20-30mins after the sun set.
HARSH LIGHT = These hours are usually from 2 hours after sunrise to 2 hours before sunset.
The EXERCISE to work with today is to setup your camera in the RAW format, NOT jpg, along with the camera in the Manual mode, set any f-stop number, set your shutter speed, but have an ISO 100. Take a photograph of the same subject using every WHITE BALANCE setting (daylight (5200k), shade (7000k), cloudy (6000k), tungsten (3200k), white fluorescent (4000k)). Just USE these white balance settings. You will notice when you select the white balance in your camera you will see the Kelvin Temperature. You should have 5 photos. When you post each photo, along with the description of camera settings also tell which white balance setting along with Kelvin temperature.
SHOULD YOU NOT BE ABLE TO FIND THE WHITE BALANCE SETTINGS IN YOUR CAMERA BREAK OUT THE MANUAL, THIS SHOULD HELP VERY MUCH or you can email me and I will see if I can help you. Remember this is to have fun and enjoy, you should get a feeling for your camera soon and MORE TO COME.
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Nice job, great work, keep the faith....appreciate your initiative as well
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