Thought I would do another experiment. Again, this is one I've thought of doing for a long time. Good thing I'm doing this blog... I'm finally getting some stuff done! Anyway, this is a little hand puppet Shannon picked up somewhere for a halloween thing we did several years ago. I think he was the star of some animated movie or something. I use him now to dial in lighting angles before I jump in for self-portraits or bother a family member for a photo. Only problem is, one of his shoulders is HUGE! Anyway, I've always wanted a visual reference of what the different White Balance settings on my camera will do to an image, so here it is. 1/125th sec. f/9 iso 800. Single strobe bounced off ceiling.
I will have to do this experiment once this year.
ReplyDeleteGreat experiment! So, which setting looks to be the most accurate?
ReplyDeleteThat's a really good idea - I like the model too. Amazing how blue the incandescent is.
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ReplyDeleteThe auto setting is very accurate, and in this series I think it looks more so than the custom one and I'm not sure why. But I'm realizing now that the white reference card I used (some old Foam Core) has yellowed a bit with age. Not so obvious if you look at it by itself, but put it next to a nice new bright white paper and it's quite obvious how yellow it is. So I won't use that for white reference in the future :) - It would be interesting to do this test again under each of the other light sources and see how accurate "auto" remains and how the others fare...
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