Assignment 4

This past week in photography class we learned about white balance.

White balance is a setting on digital cameras which allows the photographer to quickly neutralize the colorcasts that are generated by different lighting sources. The white balance settings I have on my camera are the following:

Auto WB-Automatically adjusts white balance for natural-looking color tones
Daylight-For shooting outdoors in sunny weather or night scenes
Shade-For shooting in shaded areas in sunny weather
Cloudy-For shooting in cloudy weather
Tungsten-For shooting under incandescent lighting
Fluorescent-For shooting under cool white fluorescent light
Flash-For shooting with the flash
Custom-Uses the settings obtained from the Custom setup

Our assignment for the week was to choose a subject indoors using incandescent lighting (lamp light).


Mode-Shutter Priority
ISO-800
Shutter-1/16th
WB-Tungsten (Incandescent)


Mode-Shutter Priority
ISO-800
Shutter-1/16th
WB-Daylight


Mode-Shutter Priority
ISO-800
Shutter-1/16th
WB-Florescent

Here are some shots of a light on the house, still working with white balance.


Mode-Shutter Priority
ISO-100
Shutter-1/60
WB-Auto


Mode-Shutter Priority
ISO-100
Shutter-1/60
WB-Daylight


Mode-Shutter Prioruty
ISO-100
Shutter-1/60
WB-Shade


Mode-Shutter Priority
ISO-100
Shutter-1/60
WB-Cloudy


Mode-Shutter Priority
ISO-100
Shutter-1/60
WB-Tungsten

I am off to expand my white balance knowledge.

Jen