Accurate white balance for real estate photography

[@paulaquipel7472]

You are a genius💯🔥 I use to use d750 made the switch to Z6’s a few years ago but I definitely notice more magenta tint. I didn’t realize that’s an adobe compensation thing🤯

[@NathanCoolPhoto]

Glad to help :)

[@jimdevinney1152]

Great reference Nathan! Thanks for all you do!

[@NathanCoolPhoto]

My pleasure!

[@Ezia]

Good video. thank you

[@northtosouthmedia]

Thank you Nathan! But why not shoot RAW in Auto WB for ambient and flash, then correct it in post? Sounds like a faster workflow, don't you think?

[@NathanCoolPhoto]

You're welcome! Regarding your question: No, and it sounds like you might have skipped some parts of the video. In fact, what you said, to some degree, is what I recommend in the workflow section of the video, so you might want to rewatch that. More importantly though, the reference ambient shot servers as a reminder of what the colors are while providing an accurate color temperature reference for an ambient-to-flash ratio; i.e., the various WB settings based on the ambient shot's color temperature that I show in the graph and cheat sheet. If you merely just shot AWB all the time and never looked at your footage, and when you shoot multiple homes a day, you'd have a tough time remembering what the colors are "supposed" to look like when it comes to to edit. You need a reference of something so that when you "correct it in post" you know what you're correcting it to ;)

[@rz650]

Hello Nathan, I love your work and have learned a lot from your techniques, especially Flambient technique.I shoot fine art on walls in galleries, with varying light sources - with your expertise do you think Flambient technique could be used to shoot paintings on walls to preserve true colors of the art? I know art photography is not your specialty but do you think this technique can be used for such cases? your opinion would be largely appreciated, thank You!

[@NathanCoolPhoto]

Thank you! For shooting art, I'd consider using constant LED lighting, allowing you to see better what you'd be shooting. And, you might want to consider also taking gray-card shots, and possibly using a color checker as well.

[@michaelsabell9294]

Hi Nathan, wondering if you can help me with this one - if I set my camera (Nikon D780) to a fixed Kelvin i.e. 5000, the shot ends up being 4800 when I go to edit it. It seems to reduce the Kelvin temp I set by about 200K. Would you know why this is?

[@NathanCoolPhoto]

This should help: kzbin.info/www/bejne/faKbppmYbcZnfrssi=RlR60YGOtR1bBpoP

[@MaryKayUlsamer]

I watched the video twice and am confused. Is the 2 stop rule not used now? Do you adjust Kelvin setting for every flash shot or just shutter speed? I'd really love to be confident that WB is correct because so many properties now have a mix of old yellow incandescents and various tints of LEDs, along with bright FL sunlight!

[@NathanCoolPhoto]

The 2-stop rule is a starting point to understand where ambient begins to fall off; it's not a rule for exactly what to set for each shot. It's something I delve into in my interiors book, not sure if you have that one, here's a link if you want to check that out: amzn.to/3MwlWPf

[@allEPCs]

Hi Nathan love your work and have learned loads from you! I wonder if you can solve a new issue I have since the latest updates of Lr & Ps CC. Once I have painted in the ambient light and combined images it all looks great but when I try save and close in Ps (so that the new flambient image returns to LR) the new image looks awful and nothing like the one created in PS. Have you experienced this issue? Do you think that there is a simple setting that has been adjusted since the update? It was working perfectly up until the weekend.

[@NathanCoolPhoto]

Thanks! I haven't seen that issue, but I am using LrC 11.1 with Camera Raw 14.1 and PS 23.1.0. I'd be interested to know more, if you could let me know: (1) what versions you are using of LrC, Camera Raw, and PS? (2) are you flattening the image in PS first, or saving as PSD? (3) If flattening the image, it should be a TIF file, so does the TIF look different in other viewers, like Bridge or other viewers?

[@allEPCs]

@@NathanCoolPhoto hi Nathan the guy from adobe sorted it out in the end. Basically during the latest update lightroom changed colour space so when I completed the flambient meld and sent it back to Lr it looked like trash! Lol

[@allEPCs]

Maybe a video regarding colour spaces and calibration of screens could be useful? Keep up the good work I look forward to your little pearls of wisdom I have garnished over the years!

[@NathanCoolPhoto]

I'm glad you got it figured out. I do cover color spaces in my interiors book amzn.to/39cMvKL as well as my latest, Mastering Color amzn.to/3v8GN4Q Not sure if you have those but it is something you might want to check out. I'm also curious as to the exact color space issue: was a color space set differently in PS or LrC, if so, which color space?