How do you know that any of the White Balance settings in your camera actually capture a scene the way you see it? You don’t! But don’t despair – WhiBal is one tool that will definitely help you overcoming this issue.
Rather than setting the in-camera white balance based on a test shot, here’s how I use it in the field: For regular shots, I take a shot with the WhiBal held in front of my camera first (this typically works only, if I use a tripod) and then I take the actual image. Back in my digital darkroom, I adjust the white balance based on the WhiBal shot in Photoshop. For panorama shots, I take the test shot with the camera pointing where I take my meter readings before taking the actual panoramic images. On my computer, I stitch the panorama first before applying the WhiBal white balance readings. While there’s a chance that the stitching software adjusts my some of settings in my stitched image, this has worked for almost all of my panoramas so far. If it does not, I manually apply the WhiBal reading to all my images before stitching.
While the use of WhiBal seems cumbersome, I spend much more time setting up for a shot, so the extra WhiBal shot causes hardly any overhead, while at the same time allowing me to capture very accurate white balance readings. This is one gadget that’s always in my bag.
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