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Auto White Balance
ost photographers use the auto white balance setting for virutally all their picture taking. AWB does sound like it solves all the color issues you’ll encounter, and one would think the color balance of daylight, indoor, florescent, night, and flash would turn out correct with this setting.
fails. The photo below is a case in point.
Not true.
This beautiful theater is La Fenice in Venice, Italy. The lighting appeared to be from tungsten light bulbs, so I tried the auto white balance setting first. The results were extremely reddish. I then tried the tungsten (incandescent, i.e., indoors) setting, and again, to my surprise, the colors in the picture were much too red.
Many lighting situations do, in fact, look good with AWB. However, there are times when it
In this case, the only choice was to change the Kelvin temperature setting manually. Typical
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