When to STOP using Auto White Balance, how to use custom WB settings and more photography tips.
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Whilst auto white balance (AWB) is a greta way to start off, it's certainly worth exploring the manual settings so you can have more control over the colour of your images.
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Thank you Paul I found that this colour balance chart to be very useful. I’ve picked up a lot of hints from you over the last two years. Please keep up the good work and once again, thank you from Canada.
I like the way Paul can break down a subject and make it understandable. I have learned more from Paul than all the others on youtube combined.
Your videos are absolutely smashing! You are sooo good at explaining and making photography understanable! Having worked with taking pictures for more than 60 years, I find your prrsentations to be spot on regarding explaining how it works. Thank you so very much. It brings a smile to my face every time. I am a fan!!!
FANTASTIC TIPS ON WHITE BALANCE! Like many photographers, I have been using the AUTO WB shooting mode indoors and then using daylight or cloudy WB modes outside:
You are informing us how to take control of the White Balance serttings! THANKS! hg
Paul - thank you for yet another great vid! You cover such an important array of topics and present them well for various levels of photographer. Amazing! Thanks again
Hi Pau, l just wanted to say thanks for the chart . Love your night photos the cool tone ones are my favorite.
Thank you Paul for another informative episode. The White Balance Chart is much appreciated and will prove to be very useful. Again, thank you and be safe 🙏
Interesting subject Paul thanks for going over this for us beginners-much appreciated- thanks for the video!
Thanks Paul, because of you and your videos I am not afraid of my camera ( Nikon D3400) anymore.
It now is always on Manual, but I still forget the whitebalance, this video let me understand why I am not always happy about the colors...
Definately going to change the whitebalance next time!
Hi Paul thanks for giving more much needed advice, love all the images, but purple tones/hues are my personal favourite 👍
Always a huge help. Thanks for everything.
Great video Paul, very informative as always. Thank you.
Thanks Paul. Although I use an OM-5, I always find your advice to be 100% relatable to my camera. Great video, thank you.
Love to watch your video Paul they are always very informative. 👏👏 Thank you.
Very helpful and handy hints. Thanks for the video.
Definitely prefer the tungsten because of the blue sky. Thanks Paul. Always great information. I had to reset my CZcams notifications. Something that happens once in awhile. Nice tips here. Having a Nikon D3500 I appreciate the fact you try to cover everyone's cameras. Beautiful viewpoint of the city. Looking forward to your next video. Take care.
Thks for the chart n as always very good explainations.
Thank you so much. I have often wondered about how to use white balance.
Thanks for explaining the K setting, hoping to use this for my concert indoor shots in future and have a play around with the numbers.
Thanks Paul you've given some great ideas especially I love taking pictures of early mornings and late evening exposures.
Great to hear, thanks for watching.
Hi Paul, All those photos have there own beauty, but i like the Magenta Light Purple tones. Even photographing Candles, and photographing Candles on a Birthday cake has its challenges. So having the right White balance will look exactly how our eyes saw the Candles. Another tricky one is peoples faces, sometimes they look orange, and that's where the correct White Balance comes to the rescue. Thanks for this great topic.
Always love the videos thanks for the tips!
Thanks so much for sharing another wonderful video like always Paul, I love the the city photos on the right because they have a cool feeling like the nigth, Paul it would be awesome if you can make a backlight photography tutorial 👍🤗
Great video. Really helpful
Good demo! Thanks for explaining custom settings. RAW is king
A blue sky always does the trick for me. Love your videos 😎
Novice sports photographer here and this explains a LOT of my problems sometimes. I am going to try a custom WB and see if I can avoid some of these orange temp pics. Also, stadium lighting will stop blowing out my subjects white pants at night under the bright lights!
Good video. I tend to leave my camera on Auto WB unless I'm using Flash but I'll pay more attention to the white balance settings from now on.
This was very helpful for me! Love your videos
I ALWAYS lock in WB before every shoot. That way, if there is an issue, I can batch apply a correction to all the photos. Genius!
Great lesson Paul, as usual !😊
Your videos are so helpful 🎉
Paul, you're the best!!!
simple... straight and on target presentation....😍😍😍
Thank you so much.
Great video!! As always 👏🏽
As always, very informative.
Thanks for sharing the video.. very useful information.
Great video Paul. Please consider doing one about external flash photography.
at 8.41mins i liked the right hand side pics better..the blue tones so nice
Thank you Paul for another great video and great information
comprehensive explanation. thnx
I liked the cooler setting because it looks crisper. But I also loved the majenta. Sort of a warm morning glow
thanks Paul
great video! thank you!
I remember seeing a K in my previous camera and never knew what that was. Good to know now what each one means. My new canon camera didn’t even come with a user manual so I’m learning by looking up stuff.
Thanks. I appreciate your videos.
Another great video, Mahalo Paul.
This has really helped thank you 😊
Kelvin English!!!!!! That's a good one.
Tnx for this. Did manual white balance while using the Sony Television camera's in the past. Then we Needed to go to black and after that go to white. These settings where default in the camera it self. Have not used the Canon white balance by taking a picture yet. Will try this. I wander if setting to the Kelvin thempeture with a app will work to. Need to test this also. Once again tnx for the explanation for the Canon camera. Will try this with my R6M2 greatings Leo.
Hi Paul new to your channel great video and very easy to understand and follow keep up the good work cheers John
Hi Paul, thanks for another great video, I preferred the photo to the right of screen before you explained the different settings.
It certainly has woken me up to the options available.
Could you possibly also do a video explaining the options available in "metering mode" eg evaluative v spot metering etc etc.
I've quickly looked through your videos & couldn't see anything but if I've missed it please put a link in.
Thanks again Paul, always simple but thorough.
Yes, I would be interested in that.
Thanks for a reminder on resetting the custom WB. It's been years since I broke out the DSLR.
Hi Paul, thank you.
My choices are AWB for the sky colors, but for the rest the manual change tungsten was nicer. Can we get a middle ground and have both?
hi Paul, i am new to photography can you please make a video with the different metering modes
I am subscribing your channel. It helps me a lot...
I love your photos and videos. I was wondering what the best editing software would be, or what you'd recommend?
Some more good tips Paul.
Thanks so much. Question. So if I’m doing in studio portraits if very busy kids. With OCF and artificial light would daylight be the best?
Hi Paul. Can you do a video on budget photograpy for beginners? There are some well-regarded older cameras out there such as the Sony A200, Canon 40D etc that are quite cheap to buy (£60-100 including kit lenses) but still pack a punch today. Specifically the Sony A200 that can use the cheap and plentiful Minolta A-Mount lenses going back to the 90s. Would be good to see the kind of results you can get from a buget set up. Thanks!
I like the warm lights in the buildings, but prefer the bluish sky. I have spent many evenings waiting for just the right time, 30/45 min after sundown when the lights are on fully, but sky is dark. Sometimes double exposure. this is accomplished with film by shooting the sky when it is right and waiting 45 min for the light to come on and do double exposure. Now with digital and raw capture, the WB can be set for lights and changed locally in ACR local (K key) for the sky.
To Paul from Stephen I have gust your video about wb I have got to the Nikon p950 bridge camera if I go on to the White balance I go plus +1 or 2 or 3 mines 1 or 2 or 3
Thanks Paul for explaining! You said that the camara make a couple of changes when selecting custum white balance. I guess that means that it not only sets the right/proper color temperature (in kelvin) but does more? What would this be? Looking at this from a different perspective: would it be possible to get the same white balance setting when selecting the right/proper color temperature manually compared to custom white balance?
Hi, thanks s lot, however, my images aren't that cool since I started to ba meticulous about white balance modes. I use Canon R10, and I realized that my subjects in studio shoot became yellowish with the Flash WB mode, the auto mode is still good though. Please correct me if I'm mistaken. Regards,
Thanks Paul. Once again a fantastic video of knowledge. I have learnt so much from watching your channel and it has improved my photograhy greatly. A shame your the other side of the world.
Thank you.
Please suggest what color temperature should I keep for a sunset or sunrise photography? Thanks for the video.
The cloudy setting, or around 6000-6500K should give the best results.
I like the picture on the right side but i did like both the different sky color but i just perfer the right side color for the bottom half of the image but, just my opinion 😊
Thank you
You have a wonderful way of explaining the different parts of photography. WB does it matter if you are shooting in RAW or just with JPEG?
see my comment with this video "If/when you shoot RAW ONLY"
Yes white balance is not applied in RAW. Only the processing from the camera in JPEG
Thanks for the white balance lesson! I'm just now starting to figure out the balance btwn apeture, shutter speed and ISO.
Made some photos today that will definitely need white balance adjustment in post. Thanks a ton for all your content!!!
Thanks!
Thank you kindly for your support, have a great day! 👏🙂
I used my old Rebel at 6,000 feet in Mexico today. An orange garment was fine in the shade, but looked a wild psychedelic red in direct sunlight. I'm assuming this is a white balance issue, and it appears to be quite a challenge to correct it on computer. Maybe I buggered it with the fill flash.
what will using different white balance in RAW do? Will it show up when imported because I know that other things like shadow reduction, sharpness etc don't
if im having a studio light set up, is there a differences if ill put 3kalvin or 5kalvin , or it doesnt matter as long as my white balance is correct? is there a suggestion kelvin temp i should aim for?
Paul, when in a sports stadium, lights starting to come on, sun setting and hits a clear opening. Do you stop shooting until things calm down? With auto white balance, some photos were blue, green or red in random.... All stadiums have different Lighting. Not sure why all our games are at such a difficult time. Maybe it will make the easy times better. Thanks for this Paul.
I prefered the images on the left using the AWB. The processor seemed to do a pretty good job of figuring it out. If you were really going for the foreground to not be seen, the right would be better.
Same here, I preferred the warmer colours. And it's something that really bugs me with digital cameras: they always seem to produce _bluer_ images than I'd prefer. Of course, it can be compensated, but why is that the default? I've never had this issue with film cameras.
same here
I have this image I wanna copy the white balance of but it’s on my computer and I can’t seem to get the image to show up on my camera when putting it on the SD card back into my camera
Hi, I’m a beginner using flash indoors for food photography. I thought I had finally figured out all my settings on my last shoot, however when I set-up again in the same spot another day, the white balance was off despite identical settings. My ambient light was cancelled in both circumstances, and the only difference when I shot the first time it was cloudy in my kitchen, yet bright. And the second time it was cloudy and much darker. I thought flash was a slam dunk and I did not need to worry about WB. I ended up adjusting the WB by increasing the ISO. However when using flash I was under the impression that shutter speed and ISO should not be touched. BTW I also tried the cloudy setting on my Nikon Z6 but it was too warm. Normally with flash I set the WB to daylight. Any thoughts about this? Thanks you 😊
Whats best settings for capture fast jets?
hi Paul what settings is best for EOS 750D for sharp images?
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Hi Paul, thanks for the video, got a question . what happens if you have multiple different lighting in a room. thanks for the advice.
Hi Curtis, was waiting for someone to ask that question... 🙂 Multiple different light sources can be a problem and there's no simple one fix solution. Sometimes it could be as simple as setting the white balance based on the dominant / main light source. If using LED lighting then you can adjust the temperature of light to match other light sources (like window light for example). If using flash / speed light then using coloured gels / correction filters can also be a good fix, for example if shooting a subject at sunset with a flash, you can add a warm orange filter to the flash to match the natural light. Shooting RAW will of course give you the opportunity to make more adjustments in post.
Best wishes and thanks for watching.
@@photogenius Tell me about it! I'm often shooting at social gatherings where there is a mix of LED downlights (rapidly replacing the old incandescent or halogen lights), fluorescents, and various coloured spotlights. Throw in fill flash as required when the lights go down. I generally just leave the camera in AWB and deal with any gross casts by playing with the RAW files in post.
Also, as a lapsed physicist, I'm intrigued that the lowest temperature, giving reddish light, is warm, and the highest temperature, giving blue/white light, is cold!
Edit: Should have added love your videos; there's always food for thought.
Hi there, your videos are absolutely incredible and I was hoping you could help me out cus I'm a begginer photographer and I want to learn how to capture, clear, focus, sharp photos at night using my canon EOS 1500D. Everytime when I take pictures in the night especially when there is light I find it really hard to capture a clear, sharp and best photo that depends on the light. Thanks ❤️
I've made a video on night photography that I recommend you check out : czcams.com/video/X5vogaSCmuk/video.html
Hope that helps, thanks for watching 👍🏻
Hi Paul, I was just wondering what white valance setting should I use when shooting fireworks?
A good question, this is a tricky one because the light source will be changing constantly, plus the fireworks may be in a variety of colours that may confuse the camera is using AWB. I would try both daylight (for warmer colours) and Incandescent / Tungsten. If shooting RAW images you can of course adjust the White Balance in post.
One question since it is stated that when using raw you can adjust white balance in post so if shooting raw is there a point on adjusting white balance because most of the time personally am shooting burst where i need to change sttings quickly. Is adjusting white balance duting shoot any different in adjusting color in post?
White balance setting has no effect when shooting in RAW mode. This is because RAW mode is a recording of what the censor sees with little to no prepossessing done in camera.
see my comment with this video "If/when you shoot RAW ONLY"
Thanks that helps a lot
Great
Nice polo 👕
thanks Paul, what an inspiration... Can you make videos on how to accurately control white balance for us color blind people. Thanks 🙏
i always you WB works great
So does white balance effect RAW files? I shoot in RAW but always leave my camera set to AUTO WB..
You can do a test, set your AWB on and take a picture under a tungsten light. (Regular light bulb) If your RAW file is yellow your camera only applies its White Balance to JEPG files. Your RAW files will need Digital Darkroom software. (PhotoShop, Lightroom, iPhoto etc)
see my comment with this video "If/when you shoot RAW ONLY"
I set my camera to incandescent because it lowkey seems like the only white balance that is bearable to look at
I prefer the photos on the right.
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Is there any reason why you never mention Sony cameras?
Hi Nathan, good question. The only reason I don’t feature Sony cameras is that I don’t have one ( although I’m familiar with them as I see many on my courses). My intention with the channel is to help as many people as possible, so I’m 100% keen to feature Sony cameras, however (as you can imagine) the cost of buying another camera (or two) and lenses means it may have to wait until later in the year.
Best wishes
Paul @ Photo Genius
Use time stamps?
I got a new camera
Tungsten by far.. thx
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