White Balance Card

mikemizza

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I got a white balance card and need a little guidance. I'm shooting almost all my shots in the same studio. Shooting high end furniture. Any quick tips for utilizing this tool? Thank you so much.
 
If you're shooting digital, shoot in RAW. You can fix white balance easily if you shoot in RAW. I would manually set your WB though, even if it's wrong. This way you can (if your software supports it) batch import the photos with a WB fix. This makes everything much easier.
 
Personally, I try the simplest method. I will take a shot with the grey card in the picture. In CaptureNx (or whatever you're processing your RAW file in - I'm obviously speaking Nikonese), you'd use the card in the picture to set the grey point. Then I use batch - copy settings (the settings are in the clipboard) - then go to your photos you want to adjust with same WB and paste the settings from the clipboard.

Or... you can set a specific WB setting by photographing the card only and using your camera method to set WB.
 

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