Anyone who has taken at least a few photographs in his life has probably come across the fact that in some photographs all colors are irreversibly distorted. For some reason, one photo is covered with blue, the other gives off red tones. And the wrong white balance is to blame for everything.
Instructions
Step 1
Photography beginners usually use automatic white balance without thinking at all about what this setting means and how to use it correctly. To understand how white balance affects the result, perform a simple experiment. Wait for the moment when it just starts to get dark outside, open the curtains, turn on the incandescent lamps on the ceiling and take two shots. Take a close look at your camera first. Find the item "white balance" in the menu. First, select the "daylight or sunlight" option, photograph an object in the room, but at the same time capture part of the window glass in the frame.
Step 2
Now change the white balance to "incandescent" and take a shot similar to the previous one. Compare the two resulting images. On the first, the room will appear to be flooded with orange light, but the space outside the window will look quite natural. In the second photo, the colors in the room will remain undistorted, but a piercing blue thickens outside the window. This difference shows how the white balance affects the photo as a whole.
Step 3
Of course, there are several preset white balance values in the camera menu. Always try to choose the one that best suits the shooting parameters.
Step 4
In particularly difficult conditions, you have to set the white balance manually. This can be done on a gray or white sheet of paper. But white paper from different manufacturers can have different shades, but gray always remains gray. Set the camera to manual white balance setting. Aim the camera's viewfinder at a piece of paper so that only it is in the frame. Press the camera shutter button, save the shooting parameters. Subsequent pictures taken with this camera under constant lighting conditions will have correct white balance. As soon as conditions change, a new measurement will have to be made.
Step 5
Professionals usually have the necessary attributes on hand, and it takes them less than a minute to adjust the balance. But in their pictures, errors in color gamut are always minimized.
