Best Way To Set White Balance? Recommendations?

[capturedexpressions]

I tried the Expodisc with no luck. Perhaps I was using it incorrectly. I want to loose the yellow tint I get when I shoot in sancuarys and some bride's rooms. Any advice?

[jjmucker]

ive never used one of they discs but what i ALWAYS make sure im shooting in RAW and fix during post processing. most of the time the cameras auto whitebalance does a great job but for shots like you mentioned then DPP usually sorts that out for you.

There are other alternatives like the whibal etc but i think i would find these things too annoying so i just fix in PP. :D

[liza]

I must confess that I've never used one either. I shoot RAW and adjust in post. :)

[gurnie]

I use to to do this with my film camera, as ghetto as it sounds... and I especially do it with digital video (my profession).

Bring a nice white sheet of paper, not glossy and hopefully attached to a white board backing *like poster board, just for presentation* and have your groom hold onto it. meter the white sheet of paper, and use that as your wb exposure shot

Then when getting the right middle gray exposure, meter the white board and the groom's black tux. the exposer between those two images is your gray (unless you have an 18% gray card that you can use)

[symes]

shoot raw...adjust later...

you can also do this with hue and saturation in photoshop and selectively desaturated the yellow channel...

cheers,

[paul33]

Don't ...... shoot RAW !

[mizuno]

Yeah, I do the RAW thing, too...

[tim]

I shoot RAW and adjust in post, but recently i've started using a kodak white card to make things quicker. When I have time I shoot the white card so I don't have to guess in post. Using presets helps.

Another thing that helped is I took one shot and "developed" it at something like 4000K, 5000K, 6000K and 7000K, along with a range of exposure and brightness values. What I see on my calibrated monitor, using the proper soft proofs, doesn't always match, so having the test prints is valuable.

[canotographer]

My experience from last week... I think shooting raw is the best solution. Another way to work around it is to get a good white reference object in your shots ( make sure something in your picture is actually a white color object)and use google picasa 2 to correct the WB.. I found it did the job more efficient than using PSE 5.0 if you are working on jpg files.

[DRBair]

I use the expodisc and love it, it really helps on the getting the colors correct. I shoot in raw as well, but haven't had to use the white balance adjustment when I use the expodisc.

[LightInspire]

Shoot jpeg and process in the new CS3. You can process jpegs in the raw module and yes, even correct white balance. But I use AWB and never had any problems. I used to use a white coffee filter or a plain sheet of printer paper, does the same thing as the almost 90.00 expo disc...but AWB on my XT has never needed to be adjusted..but get a copy of CS3 and process jpegs, you won't go back to raw wen you do.

[tim]

In my experience it's much harder to color correct JPGs even with CS3 opening JPGs in ACR.