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Why You Should Never Use AWB Again…
On my San Diego visit, I had several of those “Duh, how did I not know that before moments?”…
I have long been mystified as to why images in a series can exhibit vastly different color tones when they were created at the same exposure settings.
While sitting in Patrick Sparkman’s personal easy chair–I told you that Robin and Patrick treated me well–editing my March 20th images, I expressed consternation at the dramatically different color tones in the two images in the animated GIF above. They were taken only moments apart. With all the same settings. Hearing me grumble Pat who was looking over my shoulder supplied the answer: “The wave breaking in the background the white water changes the Auto White Balance.”
Duh!
Note that in the breaking wave background image that the bird’s feathers were much warmer leaning towards brown tones, while with the sand background the bird’s feathers were much cooler, i.e., blue. The best WB was likely somewhere in between the two.
While old habits die hard, I did remembered to set a specific WB for most of the rest of the trip I. Most often, and always when it was sunny, I went with Daylight. My number two go to WB was Cloudy. If you pick a specific WB, you will get much more consistent color. Yes, you can always change the WB settings after the fact but why do extra work? Working in DPP 4 I can adjust the WB on a given image in a series, copy the recipe, and paste it to all the ret of the images in the series. In about five seconds tops.
Kudos to new blog regular Kerry (girl) Morris (no relation) who was the only one to notice/ask about my using Daylight WB frequently in the past few weeks. Observe, ask, and learn. Now she knows.
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This is good information. I do usually use Cloudy, Sunny, Manual and Custom, but occasionally use AWB also–though I can’t tell you why. Now I have another reason “why not to”. Thanks.
Meant interesting. SP check is an enemy!
Very intersection on WB!