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Understanding White Balance in Photography

The white balance setting adjusts the color tones in photos to match the light source. There are several preset white balance options including automatic, tungsten, fluorescent, daylight, cloudy, and shade that add cool or warm tones to balance for different lighting conditions like indoor, outdoor, flash, and more. The document also mentions additional advanced options like a custom white balance setting.

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Understanding White Balance in Photography

The white balance setting adjusts the color tones in photos to match the light source. There are several preset white balance options including automatic, tungsten, fluorescent, daylight, cloudy, and shade that add cool or warm tones to balance for different lighting conditions like indoor, outdoor, flash, and more. The document also mentions additional advanced options like a custom white balance setting.

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WHITE BALANCE

The White Balance setting you choose will change the color
in your pictures, making it warmer or cooler depending P H O TZ Y. C O M
upon the existing light.
Perfect to print A5 size
14cm x 21cm / 5.83” x 8.27”

WHITE BALANCE OPTIONS

AUTOMATIC / AUTO TUNGSTEN / INCANDESCENT


The camera sets the white balance. It can be Designed for domestic lighting, since it adds
used for snapshots, although small variations cool tones to balance the color indoors. If use in
in light may change the colors from shot to shot. other settings, the image will look very blue.

FLUORESCENT DAYLIGHT
Designed to be used under fluorescent lights, This option adds warm tones to the image,to
this setting adds tones in the warm-red range give a final neutral-colored photograph. It
to the image. It’s helpful to balance images balances your images when shooting under
that look too green. direct sunlight.

CLOUDY SHADE
Cloudy days naturally cast cooler tones. Designed for open shade, in daylight. It adds
To balance the image, this setting adds more warmth -orange- than the Cloudy setting,
warmer tones. and gives more natural-looking skin tones.

FLASH / AUTO FLASH CUSTOM


Designed to be used with a flash unit or the Designed to let the photographer set the
in-camera flash, this option adds warm tones white balance based on the light temperature.
to the image. Using this setting prevents skin
tones from looking too cold/blue.
Some cameras offer more options, such as:
K: Lets you manually change the Kelvin value from 2,500 to 10,000.
Preset (PRE):For color matching with a white card.

WHITE BALANCE SITUATIONS

Domestic lights Bright skies Early morning Built-in flash Daylight Shade with
Candle flame Noon Late evening Electronic flash overcast sky clear sky

ADVANCED CAMERA OPERATION


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