Photography: White Balance

This article on colour balance is very useful - I'm only now getting a grip on white colour balance and how to increase the saturation of photos in-camera rather than in post-production.

Simple rule: Colour temperature at noon on a fine day is about 5500K. To add more red to an image move your colour balance towards shade, ie. 7000K - the camera thinks the colour temperature is cooler, so it adds more red. To add more blue, move your white balance towards sunrise/sunset, ie. 3500K ie. camera thinks the colour temperature is hotter, so adds more blue to compensate.

Back the front, but makes sense :-) Experimentation is the key.

| 24 Jan 2006 | #