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Food Photography: White Balance
Salmon Before/AfterCanon 7D, Canon 24-105 ƒ/4L IS lens, 1/50th sec at ƒ/4, ISO 100 Guest Post by Nicole Young – Follow Nicole on Twitter One of the most common challenges I have seen many new food...
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Going for Red! Diffusion + White Balance = Big Color
Guest Post & Photos by Levi Sim - Circle Levi on Google+ Have you ever attended a truly great seminar? Where the impact on your life was enough to actually motivate you to change? A couple of weeks...
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Choosing the Right White Balance Preset
The White Balance setting on your camera is one of the most important choices to make. This control can be used to neutralize any color cast in an image and to set the overall color (or tone) for the...
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Manually White-Balancing a Camera
If you’re shooting raw, you may have gotten a bit lazy with your white balance settings since they are so easy to fix in post. But if you’re shooting video or JPEG, there is a benefit to getting it...
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Want Better Photos? Turn OFF Auto White Balance (AWB)!
If you want to get serious about shooting calculated photoshoots, get yourself off Auto White Balancing! The camera usually does a great job at analyzing the lighting scenario and chooses a suitable...
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What’s Up With Lightroom’s White Balance Tools?
White Balance is all about the color of light, and the best reason to shoot RAW is the freedom to adjust the white balance with great power in post production. But what’s up with Lightroom’s White...
View ArticleUnderstanding White Balance & Video
When shooting video, it is important to achieve a white balancing setting that gives you the desired color temperature at the point of acquisition. While you can apply filters or effects during...
View ArticleWant Natural-Looking Light? Use Gels.
You need great light to direct attention to your subjects and help your photos appear natural. If you want to make great light with flashes, you need gels. Gels simply color your flash’s light which...
View ArticleThe Problem Solving Show | Photofocus Podcast October 11th, 2016
Ron Pepper and Scott Bourne discuss the issues surrounding your light source, setting the appropriate white balance, and when to use a different white balance for a more dramatic image. They also...
View ArticleStories from the Set: Snowing in Florida with Mark Crislip
I travel across the country talking to some of the top photographers in the field to ask them to share their experiences while shooting on set. You’ll soon learn that even season professionals...
View ArticleCheating Blue Skies in Lightroom
We all know that there’s a right way to do things and a “cheating” way, but it doesn’t matter which one you use as long as the end result is the same, right? A few months ago, I was on Zuma Beach in...
View ArticleDSLR Video Weekly: Fixing White Balance in Video
This is article #12 in the DSLR Video Weekly series. If you’d like the whole thing in one shot, check out the book Creating DSLR Video: From Snapshots to Great Shots. Once you get the hang of video,...
View ArticleVello White Balance Disc
The Vello Universal White Balance Handheld Disc is a hand-held disc placed in front of a camera lens to manually set white balance. It is very simple to use. Just hold the disc up to the lens, pointing...
View ArticlePortrait Tips: Remember the White Balance, Forget the Histogram
A popular way to make portraits is to place the sun behind your subjects (often done in a field of tall grass at sunset). It’s a pet peeve of mine, however, that these pictures are often the wrong...
View ArticleThe Color Calibrated Workflow, Part 1: Uncomplicating Color
Editor’s Note: A special thanks to our partner Datacolor for helping us to bring more information about color calibration to you. The Color Calibrated Workflow, Part 1: Uncomplicating Color It should...
View ArticleThe Color Calibrated Workflow, Part 2: Getting it Right in the Camera
Editor’s Note: A special thanks to our partner Datacolor for helping us to bring more information about color calibration to you. Special Deals on Datacolor Spyder Elite Getting accurate color all...
View ArticleWhat You Need to Know about White Balance In Your Photos
Editor’s Note: A special thanks to our partner Datacolor for helping us to bring more information about color calibration to you. White Balance is one of the most critical settings that we have to get...
View ArticleBreaking Away From Auto White Balance: Setting Custom White Balance in Mixed...
Breaking away from the standard white balance settings in your camera can be intimidating, but so worth it. Once you learn how to set your own custom white balance, you will wonder why you never tried...
View ArticleReview: The Impact Quikbalance 12″ Gray Panel for Correct White Balance in...
Many agree that one of the most vexing things about photography is getting your exposure and white balance correct in camera. Sure, you can fix it in the post-processing phase if you shoot in RAW (and...
View ArticlePortrait Tips: How Do I Choose White Balance For Portraits?
There are so many things to think about when making portraits that leaving your white balance set to auto is a tempting proposition. Especially when everyone raves about how good each new camera’s auto...
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