WB check

I find this sort of flower colour often hard to reproduce accurately. I took a petal to check against processing and found I needed WB tuning of 178 tone 234 saturation yet for the Bee shot below in the same conditions this would produce a horrible green tint. Both flash/RAW. 30D

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Ah the joys of digital photography.

I tried Scot Kelby's recommendation for setting the white balance and colours, and this produces very strange effect on macro shots. I suspect it is the lack of a good area of neutral grey...

Toby - my experience is that Canon's WB is not particular good, nor accurate, at least when compared to Nikon's units.

Bernie - Kelby's white balance/colour balance instructions do work, and work well. If you read further in the book, there's a technique to discover neutral grey areas that you can use Briefly:

1. Create a new layer.
2. Fill it with 50% neutral grey (shift +f5 is the shortcut key combination to bring this palette up). Make the necessary settings before clicking OK.
3. Change the blend mode from normal to difference.
4. Add a new threshold adjust layer.
5. Move the slider all the way to the left. Then start sliding it to the right until you see black areas. Select them with the picker.
6. Open up the curves adjustment layer and input the medium grey area.

Voila.

Dave

Love the bee shot. I tend not to get involved in WB apart from flowers where I do often drop the colour temp if it was taken with flash plus quite frequently need to reduce the saturation for red or yellow flowers.

Brian V.

LordV wrote in post #3892010
Love the bee shot. I tend not to get involved in WB apart from flowers where I do often drop the colour temp if it was taken with flash plus quite frequently need to reduce the saturation for red or yellow flowers.

Brian V.

using the colour temp slider was useless, strange as I thought RAW solved this problem.
Just tried same flower with my MK3 and it was spot on with no need for any adjustment. I suppose if you pay half a days wages for a Premier Lge footballer you expect decent WB.