Have I got white balance figured out or what?

Question

The trick to "white balance" is taking pictures while it is still cold.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/samfeinstein/2092073075/

Don'tcha think???

Hey CAPTSNUF - did you see this?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/samfeinstein/2080078442/

Zonie, that bird has been outside for YEARS. He's a very light eater, too. If you want to see where his brother is, go to http://www.flickr.com/photos/samfeinstein/485855174/ and view "All sizes." He's indoors, about 50 feet away from his brother and relatively warm when it snows.

Kristina, you're right. This is a joke. It's sort of a running joke about people who ask questions where white balance is the problem, but they respond to correct answers saying, "No, it's NOT the white balance. I was using "AWB," so it should be fine."

I'm posted another WB "question" that was for real a few days ago: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AszDgSq_det3vB1kFHmY8s7sy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20071205105756AAdj0NQ and I just posted a follow-up to that one: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071207223732AA8AbMR&pa=FYd1D2bwHTHwLb1mHe8zROUAvIX5lxMK5DPzvtmy5tMDRSNTXAKhisHJ8iomX77fx4CuF0bs6u1.Sg--&paid=asked&msgr_status=

Piano Mason, look carefully. There are only two legs - a "bipod," if you will.

Kristina, the only "white balance" in this image is the snow piled up on top of the plastic flamingo. I would have overexposed by about 2 stops if I cared about getting the snow exposed correctly.

Merry Christmas to everyone.

Answer 1

i love it! the best job of figuring out wb that i've seen...
we're getting the same white balancing act here in kansas.

Answer 2

I'm new here. This must be a joke, I do hope so. I looked at your flickr shots. I'm a model not a photographer. I feel sorry for really good photographers like you. I have been given some cameras and dont know what to do except put them on automatic. I do know that really good photographers know lots of stuff and everyone thinks it's easy. Please can you answer my questions.

Sorry, to balance the white balance (I don't know what it is, but are trying to get in on your joke) use lots of lights so the snow is not grey. I don't think that the picture is as good as your other pictures. The white on the bird is to bright, the snow is not white but grey? I think lots of lights would balance the white?

Answer 3

I've actually found snow one of the most difficult things to get a correct white balance on- since it's so readily visible when it's not right.

If you have even lighting, or at night like your shots, not a problem. But often I'm often dealing with sunlight shots which have snow in partial shade. The color balance between direct sun and shade is noticeably different. The shade is always much bluer (cooler), the sunlit parts much yellower (warmer).

Drives me nuts sometimes- as I want everything to look white.

Answer 4

I don't think that flink plamingo had too much trouble with that WB since he seems to have three legs?

By the way, is that cat showing off his skills from his navey days or is that macramé?

EDIT: This won't really mean much to anyone here unless you're from New Zealand, but we had a white christmas back in the late 80's. I was only little and don't remember, but it snowed on Christmas day.

Answer 5

As others have suggested, that's no longer a white stability subject, that's a metering subject. Your digicam has a minimum of three the way you could meter a scene and you're able to decide on the single that suits the placement. there is universal evaluative, which evaluate the sunshine stages of the full scene, yet giving extra weight to the middle of the composition; there is center weighted, which evaluates the middle of the composition; and notice metering or partial spot metering. study your handbook and look at for the lighting fixtures circumstances which one yields the perfect publicity. yet another poster counseled bracketing and this, too, is a powerful thought to get the perfect publicity. Fill flash is a pragmatic gizmo for outdoors graphics, yet i do no longer think of interior the placement you defined that extra easy on an already overly amazing face is the respond.

Answer 6

its summer where i am, so i will have to wait for 6 months then go up a mountain to see if i can white balance

merry white christmas Dr

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Answer 7

The perfect balance, hehe

Answer 8

Great! Congrats!

Now that you have figured out the white balance thing... can we move on to the ***... I mean African American balance?