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Photography~Technically Speaking => General Photo Chat => Topic started by: Pat on July 22, 2004, 09:32:20 PM
On both of my digital cameras, I've had the feature "White Balance".
Do you understand what White Balance is all about?
I found a good little tutorial on it and thought that you might like to see it and maybe we could talk in here about it.
http://www.photoxels.com/tutorial_white-balance.html
In my Sony camera I have the settings "indoors and outdoors" That really does help with the color.
I really like my white balance settings in my Canon EOS 300. I have like 6 different settings. they work great. Or I can set the it on auto. I need to set it myself sometimes but usually it does a good job on its own.
Some people use a white Pringles can lidr or a white coffee filter over their lens to set the white balance. It's similar to using a grey card. I believe there's a company that even sells a plastic thing (kinda like a Pringles can lid) as a specialty product for setting white balance. I've tried the coffee filter (I don't have a Pringles lid yet). I don't have a grey card either, but I have some grey paper that I've used for closeups of red stuff (e.g., a Swiss Army knife), and it worked great - red was very good and white background was perfect.
That's so interesting, Ursula. I've never done much of this at all.