Functional control of photo and white balance

Lead: Digital cameras are not adaptable to human eyes. Recently, when studying the internal settings of the camera, I found a function, which is the white balance function. After trying, it will be in different color temperature light, so it will cause the color reproduction distortion of the digital camera and the photo will lose its own color. At this point, you need to use the white balance setting on the camera to restore the white object of the digital camera.

The function of taking pictures and controlling the color temperature in a camera with white balance may be one of our most commonly used functions. In the process of my contact with photography, whether from the early shooting or the later retouching, the color temperature problem has never left my sight. Since we want to understand photography, of course, we should start with some common functions. The focus is on color differences, such as higher color temperature? Cloudy day? Does the whole person look warm and cold? Incandescent lamp? It seems that you can make such a horror film.

When shooting, set the camera menu and look for the color temperature in the white balance. The smaller the number, the colder the tone. The bigger the number, the warmer the tone. You need to slowly try to control and adjust yourself, and the color of the target will change. In this respect, the change of white objects is the most obvious: under indoor tungsten lamp, white objects will look orange, and the scenery photographed under such lighting conditions will be yellowish; But if it is under the blue sky, there will be blue tones. The scenery taken under such lighting conditions will be blue.

For example, when shooting a red sunset, you can shoot a picture full of warm atmosphere by manually adjusting the white balance with blue as the reference. If the white balance of the digital camera is set to the automatic position, the digital camera will misjudge the warm color temperature of the sunset as indoor, thus compensating the blue color of the picture and reducing the red color, completely destroying the original warm atmosphere of the sunset. On the contrary, by manually adjusting the white balance with the red reference, you can take a picture with a cool blue tone. In the process of shooting creation, we should keep practicing, deepen our understanding of white balance adjustment according to the characteristics of our camera and shooting environment, and make full use of the advantages of digital cameras to take satisfactory photos.

What matcha learned today is how to shoot through the functional control of color temperature and white balance. Although this is only the skin of photography, I will continue to learn more shooting methods in my work and life. Please look forward to the next issue of photography.