Essential Nikon camera settings: 10. White Balance

Here's how to ensure accurately reproduced colors on your Nikon

What is it in a nutshell?

The vividness of the illumination from different light sources varies from the cool, low tones of shade below a blue sky of the tender, orange color of a daybreak or sunset.

The white balance setting on your Nikon allows you to pay for the different colors of various light sources to prepare sure that the colors of your guesses are accurate (in other words, so that whites actually look white, and don't appear slightly bluish or yellow).

Why is it so important?

Even though you can change the white balance when you process your images (as long as you shoot in RAW) it's nevertheless important to choose the right white balance when you get hold of your snapshots.

At the very least it means you won't have to waste time exchanging it when you process your pictures. In increase, applying the incorrect white balance can also touch on how colors are entered.

For instance, if you're filming a sunset and use a warm white balance setting, such as Shade, it will advance the amount of orange and scarlet in the snapshot.

This will change the histogram to the right somewhat, making the effect that the photograph is over-exposed, whereas with a cooler white balance setting these tones would move a little to the left, then the image would actually be correctly displayed.

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How do you use it?

The auto white balance setting on your Nikon can make out with a full scope of lighting conditions, but for more consistent results you can apply one of the presets. These presets cover most lighting that you will come across, including fluorescent and tungsten lighting, but there are close to common light sources that don't give birth their own mount.

The most common is sunlight at first light or sunset - in these instances it's best to begin by placing the white balance to daylight, and accepting a test shot to crack that the color reproduction looks accurate.

What you can ignore: Manual color temperature

In the white balance menu, you can adjust the color temperature, rather than using one of the presets. This can present an accurate white balance setting, but to lay the color temperature manually with whatever precision you'll need to apply a color temperature meter, which are expensive, and unnecessary for all but the most specialized purposes.

Taking it further: Custom white balance

To make a custom white balance you need to lay a sheet of white or gray card where the subject that you want to shoot is, in the lighting that you want to apply. Fill the frame with this card and get a shot, guaranteeing that it isn't over-exposed.

You can then choose the preset manual option from the white balance menu, pick the stroke, and the camera will adjust the white balance to accommodate the lighting.

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