Chapter 6
Mastering Color Controls
In This Chapter
Exploring white balance and its effect on color
Creating custom White Balance settings
Bracketing white balance
Experimenting with Picture Style
Compared with understanding certain aspects of digital photography — resolution, aperture, shutter speed, and so on — making sense of your camera’s color options is easy-breezy. First, color problems aren’t that common, and when they are, they’re usually simple to fix with a shift of your camera's White Balance setting. And getting a grip on color requires learning only a couple of new terms, an unusual state of affairs for an endeavor that often seems more like high-tech science than art.
This chapter explains the White Balance control along with other features that enable you to fine-tune colors, whether you're shooting photos or recording movies.
Understanding the White Balance Setting
Every light source emits a particular color cast. The old-fashioned fluorescent lights found in most ...
Get Canon EOS Rebel T5/1200D For Dummies now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
