 Maria K. Carpenter |
White Balance Help? I am still learning. and a lot of the terms are clear after some study. But this white balance ... I am having trouble understanding it for some reason! Can someone give me a description that even a child might could understand? Thanks for you help:) Maria
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- Gregory LaGrange Contact Gregory LaGrange Gregory LaGrange's Gallery |
Light from sunlight is different than light from a light bulb and fluorescent lights ... even though to your eyes, it can look the same. Sunlight has all colors in its spectrum (rainbow), so sunlight makes white things look white. Light from a light bulb only has the red-yellow in its rainbow, so on film, everything looks yellow. But it's just really easy to see on white areas because they look yellow instead of white. Light from a fluorescent bulb only has green-blue in its rainbow, so white things look green. Thus, in order to get a photo to look natural, you use white balance. So you could say that with purple, blue and green on one side, and yellow, orange and red on the other side, sunlight is balanced with 6 colors. A light bulb has only three - yellow, orange, and red. So you have to balance the other side with the 3 missing colors to get white stuff to look white.
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Maria K. Carpenter |
Well, thank you very much! You have made it clear!
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Gena L. Talbot |
I have to say this thread is pretty old... but I have to really put out a hube THANK YOU... to Gregory for explaining this subjuct PERFECTLY! If you happen get this... Thank you! :)
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