After hearing someone say "What's shifting white balance?" while holding some serious gear it got me a little courious. How many people here actually know about or even use the white balance shift option (Not sure what Nikon calls it - Canon has a box with colours on the side which can be moved 9 units in each direction and Nikon has like a colour gamut graph if I recall correctly) on their camera? I'm not talking about daylight/cloudy/tungsten/fluro settings; I'm talking about the adding/subtracting of magenta, blues, ambers and greens. Lucas Wroe and Letece tip toed around it during Tuesday's Colour Management class earlier in the year to the bemusement of people in the class.
This is kinda what I mean. Here's a simple photo that I took on the weekend. No filters on the lens and no editing in photoshop because its just the jpeg from the camera.
Manual 1/800 F13 ISO400 10mm K7800 WBShift B5 M2 - Userdefined 3/Sh+5 C+2 Sa+2 Ct+0
So, does anyone use it, with kelvins, with a white balance preset or has everyone just become reliant on shooting raw and just post editing in photoshop?
This is kinda what I mean. Here's a simple photo that I took on the weekend. No filters on the lens and no editing in photoshop because its just the jpeg from the camera.
Manual 1/800 F13 ISO400 10mm K7800 WBShift B5 M2 - Userdefined 3/Sh+5 C+2 Sa+2 Ct+0
So, does anyone use it, with kelvins, with a white balance preset or has everyone just become reliant on shooting raw and just post editing in photoshop?
No, I haven't yet. I've been working my ColourChecker Passport into my workflow and warming or cooling my images with that in ACR.
ReplyDeleteWho needs to use the white balance shift when you have that trick up your sleve David haha.
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