Shot with multiple White Balance: I'm wondering how you guys deal with situations where there are two major light sources requiring different white balance settings. I was doing some...

Alphabravo2020

I'm wondering how you guys deal with situations where there are two major light sources requiring different white balance settings. I was doing some test shots at a property where the background is in bright sunlight and the foreground is in shade. As you can see, the foreground could stand for some white balance correction but I'm wondering if there is a way to do it in-camera rather than trying to mask it in PS.
TIA.

Ysarex Loc: St. Louis

Alphabravo2020 wrote:

I'm wondering how you guys deal with situations where there are two major light sources requiring different white balance settings. I was doing some test shots at a property where the background is in bright sunlight and the foreground is in shade. As you can see, the foreground could stand for some white balance correction but I'm wondering if there is a way to do it in-camera rather than trying to mask it in PS.
TIA.

I know of no way to set multiple white balances for the same shot in camera. I do it frequently in post however -- in fact I just processed an image a few hours ago in which I did that.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

I adjust the white balance to my liking (a compromise of both) in the RAW editor.

Alphabravo2020

As you can see, if I correct the white balance for shade it throws off the full sunlight white balance. Maybe nor for the worse??

Perhaps I could do it with multiple exposures somehow but I didn't have a tripod or know how to go about it.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Some RAW editors let you select specific color temperatures, like in-between shade and sun.

Alphabravo2020

Ahhh. B/W solved all my color problems :D

I'm also struggling with two different optimum exposure settings. I guess masking in PS is probably the best solution to the two problems. Also I don't think the Nikon will allow different w/b settings on multiple exposures. Perhaps on bracketing with auto w/b.

Orphoto Loc: Oregon

Another potential option is a local area adjustment in Lightroom or ACR tweaking the color temperature.

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

Alphabravo2020 wrote:

I'm wondering how you guys deal with situations where there are two major light sources requiring different white balance settings. I was doing some test shots at a property where the background is in bright sunlight and the foreground is in shade. As you can see, the foreground could stand for some white balance correction but I'm wondering if there is a way to do it in-camera rather than trying to mask it in PS.
TIA.

Haydon

You might look into the Color Checker Passport which has a feature called Dual Illuminant DNG which can handle 2 different white balances.

billnikon Loc: Pennsylvania/Ohio/Florida/Maui/Oregon/Vermont

Alphabravo2020 wrote:

I'm wondering how you guys deal with situations where there are two major light sources requiring different white balance settings. I was doing some test shots at a property where the background is in bright sunlight and the foreground is in shade. As you can see, the foreground could stand for some white balance correction but I'm wondering if there is a way to do it in-camera rather than trying to mask it in PS.
TIA.

In this situation, I would meter the back ground on manual and keep those settings making sure to shoot under the max. flash sync. for my camera (in most cases 1/250 sec.) I would then use my flash set to full auto TTL flash and take the shot, your flash will fill in the table and chairs to the same exposure level as the background.
If the shot is a little light, set the EC on the flash down, if it is not light enough, set the EC on the flash up.

Drbobcameraguy Loc: Eaton Ohio

Alphabravo2020 wrote:

I'm wondering how you guys deal with situations where there are two major light sources requiring different white balance settings. I was doing some test shots at a property where the background is in bright sunlight and the foreground is in shade. As you can see, the foreground could stand for some white balance correction but I'm wondering if there is a way to do it in-camera rather than trying to mask it in PS.
TIA.

Go to Cambridge Color. They have an intermediate tutorial on white balance and processing 2 different white balances in post.

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

I capture my original exposure using RAW format. Then, in processing, I attend to WB and Hue correction.
--Bob

Alphabravo2020 wrote:

I'm wondering how you guys deal with situations where there are two major light sources requiring different white balance settings. I was doing some test shots at a property where the background is in bright sunlight and the foreground is in shade. As you can see, the foreground could stand for some white balance correction but I'm wondering if there is a way to do it in-camera rather than trying to mask it in PS.
TIA.

Tomfl101 Loc: Mount Airy, MD

Alphabravo2020 wrote:

I'm wondering how you guys deal with situations where there are two major light sources requiring different white balance settings. I was doing some test shots at a property where the background is in bright sunlight and the foreground is in shade. As you can see, the foreground could stand for some white balance correction but I'm wondering if there is a way to do it in-camera rather than trying to mask it in PS.
TIA.

There’s no way to do it in camera without using flash to add daylight balanced color to the foreground as billnikon suggests. This is how commercial real estate photographers do it for exposure and white balance purposes. In this case you would need a very powerful flash to overcome the background exposure and assure soft non-directional lighting with bounce flash or light modifier.

Alphabravo2020

Awesome 👌 thanks all.

BboH Loc: s of 2/21, Ellicott City, MD

I wonder if a multiple exposure, if the camera can do multiple exposures, shot would correct the problem?