 Michele King |
How do I set my White Balance for Flash? I was shooting a wedding and had my white balance set for flash since I was using flash. When I opened my photos in raw the WB was set at about 6200K and not the flash setting at 5500K , why does this happen and how can I get it to stay at 5500K? My photos were way too warm? Should I have set my white balance to the light I was shooting in such as daylight even if I was using fill flash?
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- Gregory LaGrange Contact Gregory LaGrange Gregory LaGrange's Gallery |
5500K is closer to daylight range. If you're were using flash just for fill, set it closer to daylight range.
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Michele King |
Hi again, when I set my WB to flash the default setting is 5500K, if I set my WB to flash, when I open my raw files it says the temperature I shot at is over 6000K plus or minus. Just wondering why it isn't at 5500K. I have to then manually set image to 5500K so that it doesn't look so yellow and warm.
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- Gregory LaGrange Contact Gregory LaGrange Gregory LaGrange's Gallery |
The temperature that's showing on the program that opens the raw files isn't sounding like it's what you shot it at. It sounds like that is the temp that you can compensate for. Or in other words, if you were in light that was 6000K, the program has compensates for that when it's set to 6000K. Check to see if there's a default setting in the program you use to open raw files, that's set to start with 6000K.
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Michele King |
I use Adobe Bridge Camera Raw in Photoshop CS2 to open my raw files. When it opens it says shot at 6000K, then I change the setting to 5500K - the flash setting and it cools down the shot. I should change the defualt setting to open it with the flash setting?
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- Gregory LaGrange Contact Gregory LaGrange Gregory LaGrange's Gallery |
If there is one. It still may have started with not needing to set the wb on the camera to flash, if you were just using it for fill. A photo lit with predominantly flash can need a wb set to flash because camera flashes tend to be a little blue. What's telling you your flash temp is 5500K?
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Michele King |
When I open up camera raw it shows my photo as shot at say 6200K, but my white balance setting was on flash, in camera raw it shows that if I set the WB to flash it is at a temperature of 5500K. Maybe my flash setting on my camera is set to 6200K? Any ideas?
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- Gregory LaGrange Contact Gregory LaGrange Gregory LaGrange's Gallery |
Maybe your camera just has a higher temp for flash wb than adobe bridge.
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Bernard |
michele your software program is telling what light the image was taken in, throughout the day the color of light changes, early mornings the light is warm, your which is what your software program will indicate, if you mix this warm light with flash your program will show accordingly. late morning to early afternoon daylight will be cool (more blue) mix this with flash and the program will show according. late evening to sunset (warm light), mixed with flash... Bernard
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Michele King |
so then when I open up my photo and see that it is too warm I just change my WB in camera raw to the temperature I like the look of correct? My photos were too warm. It was a cloudy day and I set my WB to flash but I should have set it to daylight to get a photo closer to the temperature that it actually was?
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Christopher A. Vedros |
The first problem, as Greg mentioned, is that you shouldn't set your WB in the camera to flash when using fill flash. The predominant light color will be whatever the ambient lighting is. In this case, it was probably incandescent lights, which are warmer than daylight. Flash is very close to daylight-balanced, just a little cooler. Setting the WB to flash made the image even warmer. To correct the images, open one in Camera RAW. Adust the whte balance until the image looks correct. Then set this temp as the default before opening the rest of the images.
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Michele King |
Thanks again Chris, this is what I will do.
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Bernard |
Michele I apologize for attempting to answer a question without readint the question properly. but, I now have a question for you regarding this interesting dilemma. what color temperature does the LCD on your camera show for the image?
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