Photography Tutorial 11 White Balance

For a good-looking photo, in addition to accurate exposure and clear focus, color is also important. Because color affects the viewer's perception to a great extent, we can take a look at these two photos, which use different white balance settings to show different colors.

White balance: No matter what the light source is, it can restore white objects to white; further interpretation means that white balance can help us restore the color of the object itself under complex light sources.

When we usually take pictures, we usually use natural light, but sometimes we also take pictures in complex light environments such as shopping malls. At this time, we need to set different white balances to help us restore the color of the object itself.

If you shoot an object outdoors, the color of the object is very close to what you see with the naked eye.

But if you are in the studio and turn on the bedside lamp, because the light is yellow, the object will also turn yellow.

To correct chromatic aberration, you can adjust the white balance. Because this lamp has an effect similar to that of a tungsten lamp, you can choose the corresponding tungsten lamp white balance to correct this chromatic aberration.

Therefore, when taking pictures under light sources of different colors, you must remember to adjust the white balance mode of the corresponding light source, so that this chromatic aberration effect can be corrected.

Canon offers several different white balance effects.

It only matters what white balance we call under what light source.

The automatic white balance mode will automatically correct the color cast problem based on the color of the surrounding ambient light, so in most cases we can just set the white balance to automatic white balance.

We can use the characteristics of white balance to achieve special tonal effects.

For example, if we want to create more warm tones when shooting the sunset, we can deliberately adjust the shadow white balance to let the camera add more warm tones to the picture.

For another example, when we are shooting the sea, in order to highlight the cooling effect of the blue sea, we can also deliberately set the white balance to white fluorescent light, so that the camera can add more blue tones to the picture, so as to achieve this Effect.