I'm wondering what would be the ideal white balance target to have in the frame during a shoot where the lighting color is not constant and where the light is a different color from different directions.

I've been shooting fashion shows lately and the lighting is usually pretty bad. The lighting for the runway is a mix of colors and types and directions, sometimes changing in real-time and along the length of the runway.

There is really no way to set white balance that would work short of having a white balance target in every shot. I was thinking that a white sphere would work sort of like the spheres they use on movie sets.

At one show I ended up using a white vinyl sheet on the floor as a passable white balance target. Since light was coming from several directions I could sample at different places of the ripples in the vinyl for a passable WB correction.

At 1 and 2 you can see that there is a lot of background and subject light reflected. At 3 it is almost a perfect representation of the incident light.

I am going to try to take a solor eclipse picture April 8th. Since I have never tried to take a picture of the sun I needed to pratice. Got a pretty good photo using the topics already that have been posted. The problem I am having will seem so dumb but I hope someone will be able to help this old man. I am having a diffucult time finding the sun in the view finder. With the dark sun filter until the sun is actually visible it of course is black. I can find it but it takes me a long time very slowly moving the camer back and forth and up and down to locate it. I am hoping someone has a good starting point that will help me find it faster. I guess my 80 year old eyes are just really poor. Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.

BH sites says the filter is safe for the camera/lens but not for viewing. Other sources say to never use an ND filter for a solar eclipse as it does not filter IR or UV and will damage lens and camera. Other sources say that an ND filter greater than 16 stops is safe for protecting lens/camera. With so much conflict in opinions is there a source of accurate information? Perhaps one should go with just a solar film filter like 1000 Oaks. Of course ND filters have the advantage of being threaded vs film filters that need to be attached by another means. Not sure the convenience of the ND filter is worth the risk without hearing from an authoritative source who can clarify the science. Appreciate any input anyone can provide.

Hi all- I have Nikon D7500. Is it possible to activate the BRK button one time and have 3 or 5 exposures done in sequence automatically? Or do I need to hold the BRK button down for each exposure? Doe it matter if I have the shot setting at S single-shot or CL or CH continuous shots? Right now I have not found any difference, need to push the BRK button each time for each exposure. Am I missing something? Would an intervalometer make any difference? I tried that and maybe I set it up wrong but again I had to push the exposure button of the meter each time. Thanks for ideas.

I recently returned from a trip with several hundred photos taken via 4 different sources. One source was my D750 wherein I used 2 SD cards (I consider this to be 2 sources), another source was a Sony RX100 II, and the other source was a android cell phone. The shots taken with the camera's were all in RAW. I want to arrange the keeper shots from these 4 sources in chronological order and put on a thumb drive for future viewing. I use LR6.14. I also have the following plugins: Luminar Neo, Topaz Photo AI, and ON1 Effects 2023. Would someone please enlighten me as to how to go about doing this? Thank you.