From the course: Exploring Photography: White Balance and Color Temperature
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Making stylistic white-balance choices - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Exploring Photography: White Balance and Color Temperature
Making stylistic white-balance choices
- As you've seen, if you have the white balance set wrong on your camera you could end up with really weird color in your images. And maybe you've encountered that on your own from time to time. The time it happens to me is when I'm shooting with a white balance, say in the shade, and I forget to change it back to auto or daylight when I go back into the daylight. That's mostly when I get white balance problems. Fortunately, I shoot RAW, so it's not an issue. However, I'm using these terms bad white balance and wrong white balance and incorrect white balance and I could be a little less objective about that. Because the fact is, there might be times when a white balance that results in a cooler image is good for the shot or good for the subject matter. Similarly, I might want to use an incorrect white balance to warm up my image. You can look at white balance as a really inexpensive color filter for your images. And a lot of people work this way, when they want the stylistic choice of…
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