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Striking The White Balance
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Stored in: Technique
Posted On: February 22 2007
By: Brittney Bush
Photo © meeralee
One of the niftier features on my Nikon D80 is the ability to set the white balance by specifying the color temperature, in Kelvins, of your light source. The catch? You have to know what that temperature is first. That's why I was so pleased to find this handy list of average color temperatures for various kinds of lighting. A match flame clocks in at 1700 K, while summertime shade can crank it up to 8000. Also offered are tips for using white balance intelligently, allowing you to not only optimize the accuracy of your colors, but to easily fake more flattering light colors than you may actually have.
3 comments on this Ink
On February 22, 2007, Meera Sethi said ...
Hey! My candy thermometer is famous!
:-)
Thanks for the cheat sheet!
On February 22, 2007, Phillip Chee said ...
Great find! This just confirms what I have been doing post processing for the white balance of my photos shot in rooms lit with 60W light bulbs: ~2800K. Woo hoo!
On February 25, 2007, Ron Kyte said ...
That still sounds complicated to me. But then i usually shoot Raw images and sort ot the colour balance along with all of the other disasters in Photo Bridge as I convert to tiff.
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- Previously: Making Every Pixel Count
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