Custom WHite balance

[Primevci]

How many set a custom white balance with a white card? please leave any comments also...

[HJMinard]

Not yet, but I'd like to get (or create) one.

[Belmondo]

I have a couple grey cards, but they're always home when I could use them. I then to shoot RAW and set white balance in post processing.

[LarryB]

Well drat. I can't participate in the poll.

I use a Wallace ExpoDisc to create a custom white balance. I don't see that option listed.

[nosquare2003]

I use grey card...so what's the option in the poll?

[wolf]

I use a Melita coffe filter. Works great and they are easy to carry around in the accessories bag.

[Headcase650]

I have a gray card, but how does the whole coffe filter thing work, do you take a pic of it a few feet from the lens or do you put it right on the lense and take the pic, can someone explain?

[wolf]

Set the lens to MF, place the coffee filter over the lens and click the shutter. I find that the filter idea works better (more accurate) for me than the gray card.

[drisley]

I 've tried some cheap paper coffee filters, but I tend to get a slightly "cool" result.

[Ogrt48]

pringles lid for me

[wolf]

I 've tried some cheap paper coffee filters, but I tend to get a slightly "cool" result.

I tried a couple different filter brands and found the Melita to be the best (most accurate).

[Jim_T]

With my 10D, I've never had much luck creating custom white balance for JPG photos.. I have a grey card, but I find most of the time when I go through the procedure of creating a custom white balance, I wind up with a green cast on my images..

When custom white balance is an issue, (Like under sodium street lamps), I always shoot RAW.. Then when I'm editing the shot, I use the white point selector to choose a white point.. If I know I'm going to crop, I sometimes include my grey card in the corner of the shot and select that with the white point selector tool.

I'm not a RAW advocate and I don't shoot RAW all the time, but using RAW in this case is much better... To me, it's the only way to do it....

[nat869]

I have a white balance card I got from B&H. It was cheap and I just piggybacked it on an order for some gear. I always shoot in raw, but I do like to use the card for all portrait pics indoors and out. That way when I am looking at the pics, I can see what my shot setting looks like compared to auto or some custom white balance. I also think having the pic of the card may help in setting a custom balance during post processing, but being relatively new to raw, I am not sure.

[Lamium]

I am a raw shooter, so I don't need custom white balance during the shooting, it is a part of the postprocessing work

[nosquare2003]

I shoot RAW and also do custom white balance sometimes. It seems to be easier for me.

[Primevci]

cool kinda wanteed to see whats up i orderd a blower the gittios and a white card for liek 15 bucks ill see when it get here if it makes a diffrence coampred ot a pice of computer papaer

[dhbailey]

I'm fairly new to the whole Custom White Balance thing and think I understand the process -- using a special uniformly white or uniformly grey card, I need to fill the view finder with it held at an angle so it reflects the ambient light and take a picture and then I tell the 20D to use that picture to set the white balance.

Am I correct so far?

How does one use a pringles lid or a melitta coffee filter and manual focus for this purpose? Do you place the melitta filter entirely over the lens like a reverse hood and then simply snap an out-of-focus picture? Would the pringles lid be used similarly?

I am definitely confused but would love to learn the correct tools and techniques so as to appropriately fix the yellow cast of incandescent or the blue cast of flourescent pictures.

Are there uniform K settings which would help without the need for the custom white balance?

Thanks for helping an increasingly confused noobie to dslr photography.

[JX]

I shoot RAW, I do my white balance in Camera Raw.

[steven]

I shoot RAW, I do my white balance in Camera Raw.

Thought this would be an option on the poll.

Shoot RAW and white balance can be adjusted later if the camera gets it wrong.

[sGu]

I shoot RAW, and I do use a grey card, so I can set white balance according to grey card in post processing.

[billsh]

How do you set the custon wb with the gray card? I have one and have used it with film, but on the 20D the manual indicates the wb should be set with white.

Thanks for your help.

[yenoram]

I shoot RAW so I can adjust white balance as part of post-processing, however, where the light is tricky, I do a custom white balance using an ExpoDisc which greatly simplifies my post-processing. The ExpoDisc generates a lot of criticism due to its cost but I have absolutely no regrets spending the money given the results it produces. My ExpoDisc stays on my lens all the time as a lens cap so its ready to go when I need it.

[wolf]

How does one use a pringles lid or a melitta coffee filter and manual focus for this purpose? Do you place the melitta filter entirely over the lens like a reverse hood and then simply snap an out-of-focus picture?


Yes, put your lens in manual focus, place the filter over the lens like a reverse lens hood point the camera toward whatever you are planning on shooting and click the shutter.