9. SETTING YOUR WHITE BALANCE
WHITE BALANCING (WB) simply refers to setting the camera’s white balance controls to ensure accurate coloration in an image. In essence, you are fixing the camera so that what is truly white in your frame appears truly white in the image.
Each light source, even the sun, has a color temperature. This is a fancy, scientific way of saying that each light source casts a color. If you study any light source, you’ll notice it. For example, incandescent, or tungsten, light bulbs cast a yellow-orange color, and fluorescent lights, depending on their generation, cast a green- or magenta-tinted color. The sun, which is the ...
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