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28 questions linked to/from How do I find the right white balance value to set in my camera?
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Why do we actually need to adjust white balance?
The answer seems obvious: without white balance, we would have bad color reproduction, because different lighting would produce lots of different color tints. Our eyes adjust for the color tints so we ...
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Do I always get the same colours when I set the white balance correctly?
I can set my white balance camera dial to sunlight, to overcast sky or to a tungsten lamp ensuring there's no bluish or yellowish tint and the white is really white. I know I can fine-tune these ...
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Getting a similar picture (colours) on Manual Mode while using similar Auto Mode settings (T6 and 40D)
Very new to photography, using a EF-S 24mm f/2.8 STM lens on a T6 and a 40D. Doing my best to explain what my problem is.
I'm trying to use Manual Mode as much as possible, so I had the not-so-smart ...
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Times when I don't want auto color correction or auto white point setting
There are times when I have taken pictures in a forest on a sunny day, and the light filtering through the leaves provides a nice green cast that I want to preserve. However, my Nikon Coolpix S9900 ...
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Why is my photo partially colour imbalanced?
I have this photo where part of it is funnily colour imbalanced. I took some product shots under couple of 5500K lights. Part of the product was navy blue and it is appearing as black in the raw files....
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How to get the most out of low-level monochromatic light?
Do you have any best practices in general for shooting in low-level monochromatic light?
This is easily my least favorite lighting condition. Say you're at a Halloween party, and everybody is hanging ...
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How does the colour of ambient lighting affect colour rendition?
How does the colour of ambient lighting affect colour rendition?
For example:
If I stand under a sodium-vapour (orange) streetlight and calibrate my camera's white balance, what effect would this ...
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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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Do colored LED lights produce less illuminance than traditional spotlights?
I'm shooting theater plays and starting to shoot some alternative fashion shows.
Many colored lights these days are LEDs, not white + gel as they used to be. Let's simplify things a bit and consider ...
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Color issue: studio images have a pink hue
I have a small home studio and use 2 x 250 flash heads, and a white vinyl background.
I use a Canon 5D Mk II and generally shoot at 1/125 and f11-13.
My problem is my images all have a pink hue to ...
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How does Lightroom and PS guess color temperature?
I've been searching for weeks for what Lightroom and Photoshop use to determine your image's color temperature. People have said a lot about the kelvin scale and how to white balance, but this isn't ...
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How to cancel purple stage lighting on subjects?
HI!
So, I shot a live band that played under purple stage lights. Most acts have strong colored LED lights affecting the subject's skin and I'd like to know how to tone these colors down when I'm ...
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How important is the artificial light tint temperature (K)?
If you were given a choice and money wasn’t an issue, how likely would you buy one of those multi-tone flood lights for your photography/videography considering that you will be shooting RAW and with ...
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How can I mimic the color saturation of Nikon's miniature-faking mode?
Nikon's on-camera "miniature faking" tweak appears to increase the saturation, increase the contrast, and perform some selective horizontal/vertical blurring (with a falloff region) for a tilt-shift ...
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Canon custom white balance does not import to Lightroom / Photoshop [duplicate]
I have a Canon SL1. I snapped several shots this morning with a custom white balance that was set in camera. When I import the photos to Lightroom, they come in without the custom white balance. ...
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