Is There a Happy Medium Between AWB and Cloudy White Balance?

[stonyzmom]

This may have been addressed before, so if you know of a thread please post it.

I cannot get comfortable lately between AWB and cloudy white balance. The cloudy seems too warm and the AWB looks too cool. Is there something in between that I can use? I do prefer the warmer tones so I shoot mostly using the cloudy setting. I am currently photographing baseball games for my son's JC team and I try to shoot in manual most of the time. It's a challenge, though, since there are lots of different light gradients on the field, i.e. shade to bright sun, dark uni's to white uni's, etc.

Thanks!

[That_Fox]

I'd recommend getting a grey card. Photograph the grey card when you first get to the shoot and then set that as the custom white balance.

[stonyzmom]

Okay.......so gray card. Not sure I can achieve that. I see the Kelvin setting.....wish I knew more about that. Argh. I'm leaving in about 10 minutes. Maybe I'll wing it today and have some more posts about this when I get home.

[That_Fox]

Okay.......so gray card. Not sure I can achieve that. I see the Kelvin setting.....wish I knew more about that. Argh. I'm leaving in about 10 minutes. Maybe I'll wing it today and have some more posts about this when I get home.

For the future, you could try photographing something that is a medium shade of grey as a substitute if you don't have a grey card. I've used concrete before and it has gotten it acceptably close for the white balance.

[Travism56]

for low tech, you can just carry a piece of paper/ cardboard, (like the inside of a shoe box) in your bag to use as a guide that usually works for me and will not cost you anything.

[chrisandaivi]

+1 on the 18% gray card. Very cheap and very satisfying results! just like FOX said--- take a picture of the card before you start taking pictures just make sure you take the picture of the card on the same lighting on where you are going to take pictures. Uggghhh I'm also confused now LOL. hope this helps though

[will227457]

shoot in raw, fix later