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Nov 19, 2011 22:24:05   #
Tea8 Loc: Where the wind comes sweeping down the plain.
 
Hey Everyone!
I have been reading about white balance on here for use under flourescent lighting in a gym and today I had the chance to test it out. How does the white balance look in the pic below? Is it alright? I took this with my Nikon P500, Comments and Critiques please. (I took this as a test shot to know whether or not I was close to having white balance down, so it is not supposed to look perfect)



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Nov 19, 2011 22:26:28   #
Carioca
 
The left side of the guitarist's face looks very green, on my monitor. The other players also have a green cast, though not as pronounced.

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Nov 19, 2011 22:26:39   #
Val Loc: Minnesota
 
Well if the wall behind the musicians is green, then the white balance is ok. I am guessing there may be a green can light lighting the stage casting that green hue though.

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Nov 19, 2011 22:30:02   #
sgbrown Loc: Oklahoma
 
I am no expert in photography but one of the first things I do when I upload a picture, is to go to auto white balance in gimp. Most of the time, it seems to improve my picture, not always. GIMP is free. You can go to google and type in GIMP and find it. I use it alot.

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Nov 19, 2011 22:30:04   #
Tea8 Loc: Where the wind comes sweeping down the plain.
 
Val wrote:
Well if the wall behind the musicians is green, then the white balance is ok. I am guessing there may be a green can light lighting the stage casting that green hue though.


Really you see that much green? Maybe I need to reset my monitor or something because the wall looks white on mine. There was no lighting at all except the fluorescent lighting for the gym area where this group was playing. I do see a little green on the side of his face.

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Nov 19, 2011 22:31:47   #
Tea8 Loc: Where the wind comes sweeping down the plain.
 
sgbrown wrote:
I am no expert in photography but one of the first things I do when I upload a picture, is to go to auto white balance in gimp. Most of the time, it seems to improve my picture, not always. GIMP is free. You can go to google and type in GIMP and find it. I use it alot.


Thanks, I haven't edited these with anything yet because I just wanted to see how well my camera could do on its own in a gym type setting I do plan on doing some pp later where I can fix the white balance, I was just hoping my camera would do better.

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Nov 19, 2011 22:32:02   #
English_Wolf Loc: Near Pensacola, FL
 
Use color toning and manually select what you recall (or looks grey) It is a simple one step process. I can post a quick (really quick edit.

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Nov 19, 2011 22:33:22   #
Tea8 Loc: Where the wind comes sweeping down the plain.
 
English_Wolf wrote:
Use color toning and manually select what you recall (or looks grey) It is a simple one step process. I can post a quick (really quick edit.


Sure go ahead and edit it.

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Nov 19, 2011 22:38:01   #
les_stockton Loc: Eastern Oklahoma
 
The wall behind them is white on my monitor, but it has a tiny green hue to it. That and the faces, I had the same impression as the others before I read their responses.
That said, I would experiment with color temperature if you haveit, and try different settings.
Like someone said, you can "tune" white balance with Gimp, Photoshop or whatever tool, to improve it. I often have to do this with mine.
In places I shoot a lot, I've kinda gotten white balance down.
I usually take a reference shot into a light source (using something like an Expo disc). I then use that reference as my custom white balance, and in almost every time, my white balance is spot on.
However, some lighting (older lights) have refresh rates that change color temperature every few fractions of a second. So you can take a bunch of shots and think you have your white balance right, and then later find out that 10% or so are off and you end up doing the corrections later in post processing.

I think you'll be happy playing with white balance. It takes a while and I'm not sure you ever master it, but you can become comfortable with it.

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Nov 19, 2011 22:42:28   #
Tea8 Loc: Where the wind comes sweeping down the plain.
 
OK, there was a big difference in the picture when I opened it in PSE so I color corrected and it is definitely whiter. Time to do some more reading in my manual and attending more events under fluorescent lighting to get some practice.

New One
New One...

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Nov 19, 2011 22:44:47   #
English_Wolf Loc: Near Pensacola, FL
 
There you are, nothing to post, you did it by yourself! :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

Now, if you want a REALLY good tip... before every shoot, use a 12% grey card and shoot it in full auto, no need to bother with custom anything.

GO to PS, use the grey card shot to create a template and batch process all your cession pictures with it. Simplifies the workflow and let you concentrate in other things like adding a personal touch here and there...

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Nov 19, 2011 22:48:10   #
Tea8 Loc: Where the wind comes sweeping down the plain.
 
English_Wolf wrote:
There you are, nothing to post, you did it by yourself! :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:


Thanks, I thought I knew already what you were talking about because I have had to correct a few pictures from my old P&S that had a problem under gym lighting and it did wonders on them. I love being able to correct it with a click in PSE.

Thanks Everyone for your imput!! I really appreciate it and I am growing with all of your comments.

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Nov 19, 2011 22:57:53   #
Val Loc: Minnesota
 
English_Wolf wrote:
There you are, nothing to post, you did it by yourself! :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

Now, if you want a REALLY good tip... before every shoot, use a 12% grey card and shoot it in full auto, no need to bother with custom anything.

GO to PS, use the grey card shot to create a template and batch process all your cession pictures with it. Simplifies the workflow and let you concentrate in other things like adding a personal touch here and there...


:thumbup:

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Nov 19, 2011 23:03:25   #
sgbrown Loc: Oklahoma
 
Tea8 wrote:
sgbrown wrote:
I am no expert in photography but one of the first things I do when I upload a picture, is to go to auto white balance in gimp. Most of the time, it seems to improve my picture, not always. GIMP is free. You can go to google and type in GIMP and find it. I use it alot.


Thanks, I haven't edited these with anything yet because I just wanted to see how well my camera could do on its own in a gym type setting I do plan on doing some pp later where I can fix the white balance, I was just hoping my camera would do better.
quote=sgbrown I am no expert in photography but o... (show quote)


I haven't been brave enough to mess with the white balance setting on my camera yet...

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Nov 19, 2011 23:07:11   #
English_Wolf Loc: Near Pensacola, FL
 
sgbrown wrote:
I haven't been brave enough to mess with the white balance setting on my camera yet...
Then don't you do not really need to anyway, yet. Use a grey card instead ans use it as 'talon' of reference.

:-)

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