E 10 and white balance question.

I was reading the latest issue of Outdoor Photography and they had an interesting article on White Balance. Did anyone else see it?

They gave four picture examples of an outdoor sunny scene (or what I took it to be anyways) and the four choices they used were:

1. Flash Setting
2. Cloudy Setting
3. Daylight Setting
4. Tugsten Setting.

In my opinion the best was the Tugsten setting. And now to the question. Has anyone experimented with different settings on outside shots? And if so, what was your outcome? I'm gonna start playing but wondered if this was already covered and if so what all the results were.

Thanks.

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Paul Moore
E-10, C 2100 UZ
http://www.pbase.com/psmoore

Paul Moore said:

I was reading the latest issue of Outdoor Photography and they had
an interesting article on White Balance. Did anyone else see it?

They gave four picture examples of an outdoor sunny scene (or what
I took it to be anyways) and the four choices they used were:

1. Flash Setting
2. Cloudy Setting
3. Daylight Setting
4. Tugsten Setting.

In my opinion the best was the Tugsten setting. And now to the
question. Has anyone experimented with different settings on
outside shots? And if so, what was your outcome? I'm gonna start
playing but wondered if this was already covered and if so what all
the results were.

Thanks.

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Yes!

I saw the article and pics very briefly whilewaiting for a friend in the bookstore yesterday. I haven't really experimented myself with comparison shots of the same scene such as the author did there, but it looked like a fun experiment that would let you change the "mood" according to your liking. You could do the same thing afterwords in post-processing though.

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markE
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Paul Moore said:

I was reading the latest issue of Outdoor Photography and they had
an interesting article on White Balance. Did anyone else see it?

They gave four picture examples of an outdoor sunny scene (or what
I took it to be anyways) and the four choices they used were:

1. Flash Setting
2. Cloudy Setting
3. Daylight Setting
4. Tugsten Setting.

In my opinion the best was the Tugsten setting. And now to the
question. Has anyone experimented with different settings on
outside shots? And if so, what was your outcome? I'm gonna start
playing but wondered if this was already covered and if so what all
the results were.

Thanks.

--
Paul Moore
E-10, C 2100 UZ
http://www.pbase.com/psmoore

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Paul,

I've recently started adjusting WB settings for various effects. Mostly, I've been kicking it up to 7500K in daylight to give my photos a warming effect. I like the way they're coming out.

Unfortunately, I have only one photo posted on pbase using the adjustment and pbase is suffering some problems right now.
I'll try to post some more when I can.
--
Bill...

E-10, LiPo, WCON08B, FL-40, Canon off camera cord, Stroboframe, Lumiquest Promax Softbox, Wacom GraphireII...other stuff, too...

markE said:

I saw the article and pics very briefly whilewaiting for a friend
in the bookstore yesterday. I haven't really experimented myself
with comparison shots of the same scene such as the author did
there, but it looked like a fun experiment that would let you
change the "mood" according to your liking. You could do the same
thing afterwords in post-processing though.

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Along the same lines, I've been thinking it would be fun to experiment with different colors of paper for setting the one-touch white balance.

Obviously, using bluish paper would "warm up" the photos, and using yellowish paper would make them cooler. But what would happen if you used, say, red or green paper?

My first guess would be "nothing interesting', since color temperature lies on the yellow-blue axis. But I haven't tried it out yet!

--Al Evans

Paul,

To follow up with Bill's comment, we had a disscussion a while back about my Moose warming polarizer. He bumped it up as he said to 7500 & achieved the same effect. I have a couple of images in my pbase galleries shot with the Moose. The best ones are of a small pond with a bridge in the background & some woodducks swimming around and one of the waterfall pictures from below the falls was also shot with the Moose. It's left over from my film camera.

Cheers, Bill

Wile E. Coyote said:

Paul Moore said:

I was reading the latest issue of Outdoor Photography and they had
an interesting article on White Balance. Did anyone else see it?

They gave four picture examples of an outdoor sunny scene (or what
I took it to be anyways) and the four choices they used were:

1. Flash Setting
2. Cloudy Setting
3. Daylight Setting
4. Tugsten Setting.

In my opinion the best was the Tugsten setting. And now to the
question. Has anyone experimented with different settings on
outside shots? And if so, what was your outcome? I'm gonna start
playing but wondered if this was already covered and if so what all
the results were.

Thanks.

--
Paul Moore
E-10, C 2100 UZ
http://www.pbase.com/psmoore

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Paul,
I've recently started adjusting WB settings for various effects.
Mostly, I've been kicking it up to 7500K in daylight to give my
photos a warming effect. I like the way they're coming out.
Unfortunately, I have only one photo posted on pbase using the
adjustment and pbase is suffering some problems right now.
I'll try to post some more when I can.
--
Bill...
E-10, LiPo, WCON08B, FL-40, Canon off camera cord, Stroboframe,
Lumiquest Promax Softbox, Wacom GraphireII...other stuff, too...

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Oly E-20, Oly 4040Z, FL-40 pbase supporter
http://www.pbase.com/papa51

Have you tried working in the RAW format? One of the beauties of working in the RAW format is that the white balance is not applied to the image in the camera and you have full control of really fine tuning or tweaking the white balance to your liking before the image is processed into a standard format like Tiff of Jpeg. You can use programs like Adobe RAW or Bibble. You can download a free trial version of the latter.

I've been experimenting with custom white balance settings by using paint chips. These are the paint sample cards you can find at any hardware or paint store. The larger square type are good. Laura Ashley paints, for example, are 3" x 2 3/4". They are small enough to carry in a bag without fear of wrinkling them and they have a fairly good matte finish.

I have a Gretag Macbeth color checker, which is a chart with sample squares of controlled colors complete with RGB values for each one. This gives me a critical standard to judge the color "cast". I've tested flourescent lights and tungsten so far. The next test will be outdoors.

For those that don't want to play around with a bunch of paint chips, there is a company that produces color cards for white balance adjustments, mainly for the professional video folks. They now produce cards with digital photographer's in mind:
http://www.warmcards.com/digital_camera.html

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Pam
http://www.pbase.com/pam_r
'art is working on something 'til you like it...then leaving it that way'

Paul Moore said:

I was reading the latest issue of Outdoor Photography and they had
an interesting article on White Balance. Did anyone else see it?

They gave four picture examples of an outdoor sunny scene (or what
I took it to be anyways) and the four choices they used were:

1. Flash Setting
2. Cloudy Setting
3. Daylight Setting
4. Tugsten Setting.

In my opinion the best was the Tugsten setting. And now to the
question. Has anyone experimented with different settings on
outside shots? And if so, what was your outcome? I'm gonna start
playing but wondered if this was already covered and if so what all
the results were.

Click to expand...