White balance does affect exposure, even in RAW!

Sorry about the boldness but its a common misconception that WB has no impact on anything if you shoot in RAW and I'm trying to get your attention :) It really has the most impact when your WB is dramatically off but it will have a small impact if you're off by a little too.

Try this experiment:

Set your camera's WB to 'shade' or a really high temp (8000+) and take a photo indoors such that you get a really really warm photograph. Now go open that photo up in your favorite photo editor and correct the WB to the right setting you'll find that your photograph is noticeably underexposed.

The problem here is in order to get a correct exposure w/a severely incorrect WB some colors (ie: light) is being under/over-represented and when you apply a correction in post that misrepresentation is expressed as incorrect exposure.

White balance does affect exposure, even in RAW!

Sorry about the boldness but its a common misconception that WB has no impact on anything if you shoot in RAW and I'm trying to get your attention :) It really has the most impact when your WB is dramatically off but it will have a small impact if you're off by a little too.

Try this experiment:

Set your camera's WB to 'shade' or a really high temp (8000+) and take a photo indoors such that you get a really really warm photograph. Now go open that photo up in your favorite photo editor and correct the WB to the right setting you'll find that your photograph is noticeably underexposed. You can also take the WB slider and just drag it to the opposite end of where the WB was set for the photo and watch the histogram and the photo show under/over exposure.

The problem here is in order to get a correct exposure w/a severely incorrect WB some colors (ie: light) is being under/over-represented and when you apply a correction in post that misrepresentation is expressed as incorrect exposure.

White balance does affect exposure, even in RAW!

Sorry about the boldness but its a common misconception that WB has no impact on anything if you shoot in RAW and I'm trying to get your attention :) It really has the most impact when your WB is dramatically off but it will have a small impact if you're off by a little too.

Try this experiment:

Set your camera's WB to 'shade' or a really high temp (8000+) and take a photo indoors such that you get a really really warm photograph. Now go open that photo up in your favorite photo editor and correct the WB to the right setting you'll find that your photograph is noticeably underexposed.

White balance does affect exposure, even in RAW!

Sorry about the boldness but its a common misconception that WB has no impact on anything if you shoot in RAW and I'm trying to get your attention :) It really has the most impact when your WB is dramatically off but it will have a small impact if you're off by a little too.

Try this experiment:

Set your camera's WB to 'shade' or a really high temp (8000+) and take a photo indoors such that you get a really really warm photograph. Now go open that photo up in your favorite photo editor and correct the WB to the right setting you'll find that your photograph is noticeably underexposed.

The problem here is in order to get a correct exposure w/a severely incorrect WB some colors (ie: light) is being under/over-represented and when you apply a correction in post that misrepresentation is expressed as incorrect exposure.