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Considering an upgrade to Canon G7X – but have a concern about shooting sunsets.

Started Apr 5, 2015 | Discussions thread
OP AdkPaddler New Member • Posts: 9
Re: Considering an upgrade to Canon G7X – but have a concern about shooting sunsets.

I’ve been doing some additional research and think there is a solution that would work for me. But I would like to first run it by others that are smarter than me when it goes to cameras.

It appears that auto-white balance (as you have in automode), when presented with sunset conditions, gets confused and tries to correct the white balance away from the reds we naturally see. (Let’s assume that the camera does not detect a sunset and automatically transition itself into a sunset mode.)

So with automatic white balance, the camera “washes” out the red colors. The way to correct for this is to force “Day Light” white balance. This should bring the colors back towards the way you actually see them. And if you want to artificially deepen the colors, you could instead select “Cloudy” white balance - which goes beyond Day Light white balance, adding additional warm tones to the image.

Does this make sense?

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