This exercise involved deciding on what corrections a scene needs (if any) to it's white balance. This involved taken a image similar to the first and changing the white balance for each shot from daylight to shade or using the cameras automatic white balance.
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| Full sun: Auto white balance |
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| Full sun: shade white balance |
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Full sun: daylight white balance
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| Shade: Auto white balance |
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| Shade: shade white balance |
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| Shade: daylight white balance |
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| Sunset: Auto white balance |
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| Sunset: shade white balance |
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| Sunset: daylight white balance |
Digital cameras have a white balance control built in. This enables me to set a specific colour temperature to match the colour temperature of the light source. In theory when the two are perfectly matched no colour cast will be apparent.
However, you may not always want a neutral image lacking a colour cast. For example the auto white balance of the last image (sunset) has removed the orange glow of the sunset.
This exercise has taught me the importance of considering the correct white balance for the situation and what I require from the final image. For most images the auto white balance produces images with little or no colour cast and this might not always be what I'm trying to achieve in my photographs.
