White Balance
(User’s Manual: D300S page 134; D300 page 126)
White balance is designed to let you capture accurate colors
in each of your camera’s RGB color channels. Your images
can reflect reality if you understand how to use the White
balance settings.
This may be one of the most important things to learn about
in digital photography. If you don’t understand how white
balance works, you’ll have a hard time when you want
consistent color across a number of images.
In this chapter, we are just going to look at white balance
briefly—only showing how to select the various White
balance settings. This is such an important concept to
understand that I’ve included an entire chapter—titled
Chapter 10—devoted to this subject. Please read that chapter
very carefully. It is important that you learn to control the
White balance settings well. A lot of what you’ll be doing
during in-computer post-processing requires a good
understanding of white balance control.
Many people leave their cameras set to Auto White balance.
This works fine, most of the time, since the camera is quite
capable of rendering accurate color. However, it’s hard to get
exactly the same white balance in each consecutive picture
when you are using Auto mode. The camera has to make a
new white balance decision for each picture when in Auto.
This can cause the white balance to vary from picture to
picture.
153
To Next Page
Loading...
