Questions about how to choose the correct colour balance for a given scene, and how it affects photos.
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Does custom white balance cancel out the pink of skylight filter?
I currently have a cheap UV filter that was initially purchased with the camera.
I am looking at buying a HOYA UV or Skylight filter as it is suggested this may help improve the image quality.
Many ...
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Should I be warming grey card calibrated shots?
In a recent blog post at this site, Tim Grey recommended the following:
You could then use the white balance tool in Lightroom or Adobe Camera
Raw (or similar tools in other software) to make ...
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How to change background and maintain realistic effect?
I have like 30 different photos to process like this, but I want to know key things to maintain realistic photo by changing it's background, or maybe just modify background so it would be more ...
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Should I recalculate white balance for all my pictures after moving from iPhoto to Aperture?
I been shooting in RAW since I got my DSLR about a year ago (why not? storage space? that gets bigger and bigger all the time) and I kept storing my pictures in iPhoto, but this week I moved to ...
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Using gray/white card to determine white balance, does it matter where I stand when I take reading photo?
If I want to use a white card to determine the white balance, and I'm taking a picture of something that is a short distance away from me, does it matter if I don't walk back to where I'm going to ...
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What are the RGB values that correctly represent a 5800 K white surface on a calibrated 6500 K monitor?
Consider a high-quality monitor calibrated at the standard parameters: 6500 K, 2.2 gamma, 120 cd/m^2. Calibration is accomplished with a LaCie hardware sensor + its software, and it's quite accurate.
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Calibrating monitor for editing photos for publishing on web [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What software shows the most accurate version of a photograph for web viewing?
I have a bunch of photos taken in rather difficult lighting conditions and I am trying to ...
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How to estimate colour temperature of the illuminant from a photograph of a standard colour chart?
I am working on a digital still camera. I need to compute the colour temperature of the illuminant programmatically using some algorithm (not using a third party tool from Adobe or etc.).
In my case ...
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Does Gimp have a Match Color function similar to that in Adobe Photoshop CS3+?
In a recent question, Steve Ross points out that Adobe Photoshop has a useful feature for matching color between photographs. Of course, color adjustment can be accomplished in Gimp with careful use ...
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How do I simply adjust the color temperature In Photoshop Elements?
How do I simply adjust the temperature of an image in Photoshop Elements?
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Does this sunrise photograph have a problem with white balance?
I find this scene "all" "Orangey". The trees are also looking a kind Orangey.
Is the colour balance wrong? Or it is normal for a sunrise scene?
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What's the best way to correct white balance in post?
A lot of my photo's seem to have incorrect white balance, but as I shoot in raw I'm thinking this can be corrected. So my question is, with post processing, what's the best way to ensure correct white ...
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Why would my Hoya ND8 Pro 1 decrease the white balance dramatically?
I've just bought the Hoya ND8 Pro filter (+3 stops). After some tests, i've just notice that the results are very different from a single shot. After some tests, here is my conclusions :
The ND ...
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How does the eye perform the equivalent of white balance? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can knowledge of human perception of color be used in photography?
How does the eye perform the equivalent of white balance? Why is the camera not able to replicate ...
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How to set white balance when there's no neutral region to select with the eyedropper?
If, in an image, there is no region which is neutral white, grey or black, how to set white balance?
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Why does setting white balance in the camera prevent me from being able to change it afterwards? [duplicate]
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Why can I adjust the white balance of a RAW file but not a JPEG file?
I thought white balance adjustments were simple color-cast adjustments applied uniformly across the ...
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Infrared Photography - How to set White Balance?
When I started out photographing in infrared I wasn't setting a specific White Balance (I let the camera set on automatic). Then I started learning more about how people take infrared shots, and that ...
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How can I adjust for any inaccuracy in a homemade white card?
Quite a number of years ago, I made my own white card. It is basically made up by two white access cards in plastic glued together and sanded down so that they have a matte finish.
The cards have ...
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Why does the “As Shot White XY” metadata tag change even when WB is set manually?
I am capturing raw images using N900 camera. It gives me DNG files. I have some question regarding the colour temperature of these raw images.
Objective:
I am trying to map the CIE-XY Camera white ...
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What color temperture produces warmer tones?
With two sources of light:
an incandescent light approximate color
temperature of 3000 K,
sun with an approximate color temperature of 6000 K. W
Which source produces warmer tones?
Consider ...
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How to adjust RAW photos from underwater?
I have some photos that were taken from a glass bottom submarine that have colors that look all wrong. I'd like to edit these raw files in Adobe RAW Converter to make them look more normal. There ...
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How does Aperture 3 set the default White Balance when developing a RAW file?
I already learned that on raw images no white balance transformation has been applied yet.
1) If Aperture develops the preview images (without manually setting the WB by the user) it has to decide ...
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How does white-balance synchronisation work in Lightroom?
I just noticed that when in Lightroom I sync white-balance between multiple images the colour temperature and tint of the source image is not just copied over to the target images, but somehow ...
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How to I change settings to prevent very red images with Canon 550D?
I've just shot some video with the 550D in Full HD mode, 25 frames, with AWB on, but the reds are very red, almost bleeding. Admittedly what I shot was a Christmas play, with lots of red costumes and ...
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What does it mean when Dpreview says “White balance often excessively orange under artificial light”?
From: http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/nikond3100/page19.asp
White balance often excessively orange under artificial light.
Artificial light here may also mean Flash.
Is this something which I ...
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What is the color of “white” that is displayed on a Camera screen or LED monitor?
When I white balance my DSLR to a given color temperature that temperature shows as "white" on the LED screen, and on a computer monitor.
What color is the LED screen or computer monitor displaying ...
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Lightroom white balance adjustment without a grey card
I'm using Lightroom 4, trying to adjust white balance using the eyedropper by the Temp slider, but I'm not sure where in the image to click to get the right balance. I did not use a grey card, so do I ...
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Why does Adobe Camera Raw 6.4.1 offer different White Balance for different photos?
I am using Adobe Camera Raw v6.4.1 to view my Nikon d-90 photos on my computer and when I go to change the White Balance, for some photos I only get the choices:
As Shot
Auto
Custom
Yet for other ...
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What are techniques for enhancing visibility of photos under natural, outdoor daylight?
I'm trying to find techniques for making photos more visible under daylight (i.e., when daylight reflects off the photo displayed on a screen or print). Does anyone know of any photo editing ...
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How to check what White Balance setting was used (on a Mac)?
I've been experimenting with different white balance settings, and I can see what was used while browsing photos on my Nikon preview screen.
But when I copy the photos to my laptop where I can ...
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How can I adjust the colour temperature of an image programmatically?
I'm wondering how to convert programmatically (i.e. with a programming language rather than an editor) from one colour temperature to another?
If, for example, I make the assumption (and it's a big ...
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Would auto white balance benefit from use of a color card? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Does Auto White-Balance Really Work? How?
How do you use a gray card?
An ongoing unsolved challenge is white balance (Nikon D800E).
The camera in auto WB fails way too ...
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Are scene modes, white balance, color tones, and similar just post-processing effects?
What happens when the following settings are changed:
White balance
Color tones
Scene modes
Are these parameters affect the way in which the photo is taken or they are just applied by processing ...
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Does Lightroom export white-balance temperature and tint value to JPEG metadata?
When I export a JPEG from Lightroom 3.6, is the white-balance temperature and tint value written in the JPEG file somewhere? Could I later take that JPEG and see (in the EXIF for example) what the WB ...
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How to get colors right with Nikon D300?
With my Nikon D300 I have been photographing dahlias. I have been unable to get accurate colors of some of the flowers particularly in the magenta-violet range. I have adjusted white balance manually ...
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Why are these lights all different colours and how can I correct them?
I occasionally take panoramic city photos and I've noticed that certain sections of the cities have a lot of different coloured lights.
What causes these different lights? Some of these appear to be ...
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Will LEDs work with a point & shoot camera for light booth digital photography?
I am planning on using multiple strips of LEDs to light up a 2 ft x 2 ft x 2 ft light booth for taking pictures of small items. LED output is Cool White 6500k. Digital camera is low cost 5 megapixel ...
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How do I judge correct White Balance?
Which photo has the more correct White Balance? (see below link) For me the second is much better than the first. My understanding is that the R+G+B histogram needs to be more balanced as possible. Is ...
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How do I adjust the color balance on a Nikon D300?
First of all let me clarify here. I am aware of the color balance feature on the Nikon D300 and I generally use Auto, so this isn't about that aspect of color balance.
My camera has a tendency to ...
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How does the gray level in a target impact the true color after calibration
I'm trying to learn how to take photos that are color accurate. I'm testing on a newly painted wall in my kitchen, and has a biege paint with some green tone. ...
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Why does AWB mode on my camera produce a blue tinge in photographs?
Is that normal? Canon Powershot SX210.
I used to use the AWB mode in the fully manual mode.
EDIT 1:
The blue tinted photo added:
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How can I see the white balance levels of photos in playback with my Nikon DSLR?
I am a Nikon user, and have recently moved to the Nikon D5100.
On my old camera when viewing images I would be able to press the arrow button and I would be able to see the white balance levels of ...
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Do the preset picture styles also affect the White Balance?
I started shooting RAW with my Canon 550D, and tried out different Picture Style settings on some of the images using the software provided by Canon (I am assuming that the Picture Style settings are ...
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How does one use a white balance card (gray card) to set a custom white balance? [duplicate]
I have only been able to find instructions that involve post-processing. Is there a process where I can take a photo of the card and set that white balance and save it for my photos? Basically setting ...
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Can white balance be changed in scene modes with the Nikon Coolpix L23?
Can we change white balance in scene modes (portrait, landscape, etc....) of the Nikon Coolpix L23?
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How to get correct white balance with different types of light sources? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I properly white-balance my photographs when I'm shooting in mixed-lighting environments?
I was at a wedding recently, and the reception hall had these huge ...
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How to avoid burnt photos with nikon d300?
Sometimes when I take photos with a Nikon D300 I got the photos burnt. Does anybody knows a technique that helps to avoid this undesirable effect?
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Why are my photos slightly yellower than they should be on iPad 1st gen?
I just transferred some photos from my Macbook to my iPod Touch and my iPad 1st gen. I found that photos on my iPad are a tad warmer than they are on my Macbook and my iPod Touch. Has anyone ...
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What is the best free software to edit NEF photos?
I'm new to photography and just starting to take photo in RAW format. I haven't found a difference in quality of color adjustment editing between ViewNX (free software coming with my Nikon d5100) and ...
