White Balance

But lets talk about white balance...

During the course of the last year, my learning curve has been pretty steep, reading articles, taking shots and generally being a bore to my friends focusing on my new passion for photography. I pretty soon realized that if I wanted to take great shots(yet to be achieved ) I would have to look at all the angles, not just the composition but all the tech stuff behind.

What that got to with white balance? well  it's amazing but  our eyes has a remarkable ability to adjust to different light conditions. We have built-in auto-focus system and auto-exposure!!! we also have automatic colour balance built into our brains. A white object will appear white to us whether viewed in sunlight or under cloudy skies .
So on most digital cameras the white balance setting defaults to "Auto" mode. I used this setting for a while and found that it works in most situations but is not very accurate. To achieve greater accuracy I needed to go into the menu mode and set the appropriate preset white balance setting for the shot which could be "sunny", "cloudy", "flash", "night shot" etc.  Setting the white balance incorrectly will not only make the white appear bluish or reddish (depending on the setting) but will make all the other colors in the image to be rendered incorrectly as well.
So I highly recommend that you setup your white balance before you go out shoot (unless you shoot in RAW) and not let the camera make that crucial decision for you it did make a huge difference for me, that and a few cold beers in my backpack made my outings a lot of fun! but make sure that it is LIGHT  so your shots won't come out blurry



I also like to thank the person that extended my dA Sub..wish I knew who it was to mention his or her name here but thank you so much