God your skin needs some moisturizing Sean; or you'll turn into a vampire really soon! Please order a good gentle deep moisturizing lotion for yourself.

Wow, thanks for sharing that. He was amazing, what an eye. 😍

Recently I've been leaving my big old Sony kit on the shelf in favor of a much smaller fujifilm x100 for travel and life documentation photos. It makes a ton of sense to always shoot fixed WB for daylight on that camera to get a true to my memory shot. Going to be spending more time fixed at 5500k I think! Thanks for the video.

Intelligent use of techniques. Excellent 👍

looking at the final grid 20:03 i feel that Sean’s photo has totally totally different feel…it’s like the others are portraying status or maybe a drawing while Sean’s is of an actual human…

Sean, something so beautiful and honest and open about this video. You also touch upon something quite lovely, at least to me - sometimes it's fun just to take a photo of something, in the same way it is quite fun to just doodle with pen and paper sometimes.

Gerne mehr. Auch zu unterschiedlichen verfahren. Transfer zum Beispiel.

Speaking of fish and chips, Albuquerque, New Mexico, has Two Fools pub in Nob Hill that has fantastic seasoned, beer battered fish and chips.

Thank you Sean

If you shoot RAW, the WB does not matter

The best tutorial set I have seen here on youtube!

Fascinating. I shot on the underdog, Pentax, and I loved how warm the pictures were out of camera. Recently got the Zf, and have been running AWB in "WBa2 - Keep Warm Lighting Colours" to get a similar look. I can't wait to go out and play with 4.5-5.5k and start trying to preserve the natural lighting of the scene.

35 and 50

That was brilliant! thankyou. Linden

Thank you so much for making this video tutorial!🎉

Awesome video. Not only do you like manual mode but you obviously like black and white..

I've learnt so much. Thank you!

I'm very new to photography and you are showing me so much stuff in your videos, Sean. Thank you for the very frank, honest and easy to follow way that you explain things.

I have always left mine at 5500 too... I learned it from youtube WAYYYY BACK ... i will try and find the video of the guy.

And right now I must try use calvin. Big apriciate your videos, thanks a lots of mate form Indonesia

If I shoot raw, could I tune this in post or does I actually loose some of the colors depending on wb?

A good example to better portrait this would be to use the greatest painters such as Picasso or Van Gogh…

Absolutely astonishing work, how on earth did he managed to produce that quality with the equipment he had. Mind blowing.

Thank you...

Master of explanation. A great teacher….if anybody asked for an explanation of something, I’d direct them to your channel. I can see many photographers setting their WB to 5500k now from Auto, including myself! And for me, rightly so.

TLDR; White balance is trying to correct something I don't usually want to correct. (I have also shot in daylight white balance for many years.)

Pictures should be looked at, not smelt

I always leave it on “daylight”. So I’ve been doing this. I love it.

after going from real photography to 3D rendering back to real photography i found white balance really confusing and this completely explains what i was trying to figure out.

I love this idea, and concept. For years I was obsessed with nailing white balance in a piece of a grey paper, and now I'm wondering why, because I tweak my white point in post for just about every image. Your video might be a game changer for me. Just one caveat, I have noticed that poor CRI LED lights that are over-used now don't capture well on a sensor, not as well as an actual tungsten light source for example, or perfect daylight, etc.

Interesting! Schoeller's softboxes seem to have a lot less hotspot, looking at the highlights.

White balance in digital cameras was necessary when all that could be output was a jpg. Once raw files became available it became a case of "set whatever white balance you like in camera" it only impacts jpg images and the jpg preview shown on the back of the camera. The raw file is totally independent of the cameras white balance in a similar way to whether you set sRGB or aRGB as the colour space. There is no "loss" of quality when adjusting white balance in a raw converter as the raw file cannot have a white point, it is the job of the raw converter to apply whatever white point you like. The raw converters default setting is to apply the white balance set in camera, but that's the default and you can set whatever default you like. For example if you have shot on Auto WB and want to see what a White balance of 5,500K looks like simply select all of your photos, change the white balance to 5,500K and voila! With regard to what our eyes "see" is opening a can of worms. Our eyes, like a raw file , captures the photons, it's our brain that actually "sees". Step from outside into a dark tungsten lit room and yes, everything is orange. However, within a second or so our brains will apply a "White Balance" and voila, the colours are as we know them to be. Scientifically, if you can be in a tungsten lit room for some time and still see a piece of white paper as "orange" then you are pretty !unique", or have taught yourself to turn the white paper "orange" , simply because you know that is what it is supposed to be. Just to complicate things I am not sure how many Tungsten lights people come across these days as they have been banned since 2016. LEDs have a kelvin rating but this is very variable and the spectrum of light emitted form them is not a continuous spectrum but a mixture of fairly isolated wavelengths that behave very differently to Tungsten light. Fun fact, and to further illustrate the power of the brain you need to consider that the "eye" is a simple one element lens that images light onto the retina at the back of the eye. Consideration simple optical physics or a simple experiment, will show that the image recorded by the retina is obviously upside down! If you get people to wear a special pair of glasses that images on the retina "Upside down", then people become disoriented, can't walk straight etc. After several hours of wearing the glasses the world will suddenly appear "normal" to them as the brain "corrects" the image and provides the "correct" view. Taking off the glasses then turns the world upside down until the brain corrects again.😀 So to summarise, do whatever you want with the white balance in camera as it's irrelevant apart from the image on the back of the camera, it's in the raw converter where it matters. Set your default to Auto, 5,500K or whatever you like, the choice is yours.

Again another magnificent photographer I had never heard of. Thank you so much for making these videos and sharing these gems.

The joy of serendipity! Discovering such art and beauty accidentally! Thank Sean, this was lovely to watch and learn from. ☺️

Love this approach, gonna give it a shot

Beautiful 💛

Learning to not just post consistently to please the algorithm and post pieces that are not meant for that kind of social media and audience, but holding back for when you might have the right space to share that type of work is extremely important.

Sutcliffe was one of my late father's favourites. Thanks for reminding me of his work. I'll be digging out my father's old books on him. I'd encourage anyone to visit the North Yorkshire coast. Beautiful part of the world.

appreciate the explanation, i can say i understand white balance now. but the explanation with the paper at the beginning is in reverse. actually cool light is lower number and warmer light is higher number

Can someone please explain to me what the remote is doing when he takes a shot? My brian is quite smooth.

His work speaks for itself . Exquisite .

I'm a glad people are thinking more about how the camera interprets colors in their images! I would be careful with using white balance as a creative control though. White balance is used to control the center of the colors captured by the camera for all other color controls (e.g. saturation, hue, etc.). Definitely change the colors in your images in creative ways that depart from reality, just be careful with which controls you are using (and understand the impacts between the sliders)!

100% agree. I never liked auto wb, looked too unatural. I always liked the way daylight film made indoor lights warm and outdoor lights cyan. Reminds me of night scenes in movies which I think look cool. Thanks for sharing your creative reasoning!

Brilliant! Thanks a lot, Sean, for this food for thougt.

i went from pro back to amateur after 10 years, i was done with running after money, finding clients. I was more busy with business then creating photo's. And the only thing i want is making photo's..

A Canon, Nikon, and Sony user walk into a Tungsten lit Pub...

I, too, love spending time locally, especially in the woods. My wife says that I take too many pictures of trees, fallen logs, dead trunks from leftover flood areas, but, I am telling a story. I live along The Mississippi River which tends to flood and once the water recedes it leaves behind debris from upriver or uproots trees. There is peace in the woodlands when you are out there alone with just a camera looking for one spot that you can revisit to perhaps, capture that one shot, just as you did, Simon.

As a more general point, this is rationale is why I finally switched from shooting on an iphone to getting my own dedicated camera. I think smartphones make great default choices, but the deeper I got into photography the more I wanted to make my own choices about composition instead of having software make the choices for me.

I never get tired of consuming Sean's content, it exhibits so much authenticity

The tones. Thankyou Sean and Mike Shaw.