WB for beginners: This is for the rookies!!!I am a rookie at this myself and was playing around with WB (white balance)trying to learn the effects. Came out some what interesting. C&C...

wannabe Loc: Baton Rouge Louisiana

This is for the rookies!!!I am a rookie at this myself and was playing around with WB (white balance)trying to learn the effects. Came out some what interesting. C&C welcome as well as pic post to compare!!

Cloudy WB

daylight WB

tungsten WB

olcoach Loc: Oregon

These are the kind of experiments that help us all to learn. Keep it up.

Lacey Girl Loc: Las Cruces, NM

Thanks, I have never really played with it other than for auto or cloudy!

wannabe Loc: Baton Rouge Louisiana

Lacey Girl wrote:

Thanks, I have never really played with it other than for auto or cloudy!

I try to learn as much on my own and then ask questions to the great folks here on the hog. Just play with all your settings and it will explain some of the things you see but were not sure why they came out the way you wanted.

Lacey Girl Loc: Las Cruces, NM

wannabe wrote:

Lacey Girl wrote:

Thanks, I have never really played with it other than for auto or cloudy!

I try to learn as much on my own and then ask questions to the great folks here on the hog. Just play with all your settings and it will explain some of the things you see but were not sure why they came out the way you wanted.

Like this morning I was playing and couldn't figure out why all my photos were really dark. I was getting really frustrated until I found that my ISO Sensitivity was off. Turned it on and was amazed at the change by one little switch!

Nikonian72 Loc: Chico CA

These must all be JPGs. Did you also shoot raw in same WB variations?

Photogdog Loc: New Kensington, PA

wannabe wrote:

This is for the rookies!!!I am a rookie at this myself and was playing around with WB (white balance)trying to learn the effects. Came out some what interesting. C&C welcome as well as pic post to compare!!

To be honest with you, I rarely use Auto White Ballance. Most of the time I use the Cloudy setting (but I live in Pittsburgh, PA and isn't much better than cloudy most of the time, sort of like London, England and Seattle, WA).

Anyway, I would trust to your own eyes when you adjust the balance. If it looks good, go with it!

Lacey Girl Loc: Las Cruces, NM

Photogdog wrote:

quote=wannabe This is for the rookies!!!I am a ro... (show quote)

I will have to try that. Love your picture! Beautiful!

Photogdog Loc: New Kensington, PA

Lacey Girl wrote:

Anyway, I would trust to your own eyes when you adjust the balance. If it looks good, go with it!

I will have to try that. Love your picture! Beautiful![/quote]

Thanks, This was from my Canon EOS 7D with an EF 100-400mm f4.5-5.6L lens. I think I set the ISO at 800, f5.6 and 1/100" shutter holding it handheld (shame on me, I have a really nice Manfrotto tripod with a Manfrotto ball head) & instead of using it, I braced myself against the fence and then Photoshopped it to death in post-production.

wannabe Loc: Baton Rouge Louisiana

Nikonian72 wrote:

These must all be JPGs. Did you also shoot raw in same WB variations?

No unfortunitly I did not. I dont usually shoot anything but raw but I am trying to learn and was playing with Jpeg this day. I will shoot some more and post them. Thanks for looking Nikonian72. Is there a reason why you want to see in raw vs Jpeg?

wannabe Loc: Baton Rouge Louisiana

Photogdog wrote:

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Thanks Photodog. I am still trying to learn, but do agree, SHOOT WHAT YOU SEE. i dont do much PP yet just try and capture it with what I have. Nice shot of the Tiger. I am a little bias since I am a Tiger fan GEAUX TIGERS.

Photogdog Loc: New Kensington, PA

[quote=wannabe
Thanks Photodog. I am still trying to learn, but do agree, SHOOT WHAT YOU SEE. i dont do much PP yet just try and capture it with what I have. Nice shot of the Tiger. I am a little bias since I am a Tiger fan GEAUX TIGERS.[/quote]

Thanks but I have to tell ya, this shot turned out WAAAYYY better than I had any right to expect.

The Canon EF 100-400mm f4.5-5.6 is like a bazooka mounted on any EOS body. Not using a tripod should have resulted in a really out of focus shi**y picture. Canon actually supplies the lens with a ring mount for a tripod because they know the thing weighs a ton and shouldn't be mounted on a tripod from the camera body

It was a warm day & just jammed myself into the fence to try & stabilize myself.

God looks out for drunks and fools, so I guess I get the double whammy!

Thank God for Photoshop!

ioptfm Loc: Isle of Palms, SC

wannabe wrote:

This is for the rookies!!!I am a rookie at this myself and was playing around with WB (white balance)trying to learn the effects. Came out some what interesting. C&C welcome as well as pic post to compare!!

Would be interesting to know what the conditions were when you took these?

charles brown Loc: Tennesse

this is just one of the ways to learn how to use your camera. I shot raw and then use PP software to change camera settings to see what effect the different settings would have made on the original photograph

wannabe Loc: Baton Rouge Louisiana

ioptfm wrote:

wannabe wrote:

This is for the rookies!!!I am a rookie at this myself and was playing around with WB (white balance)trying to learn the effects. Came out some what interesting. C&C welcome as well as pic post to compare!!

Would be interesting to know what the conditions were when you took these?

It was evening with the sun going down and some clouds of and on. I was watering plants and noticed the drop lets and thought get out the camera.. Oh and ity is under an awning on my patio