How to use WHITE BALANCE on your camera

[@kh1188ish]

Yep, I was going to be that guy who writes a book size comment about how the whole warm/cool thing is backwards and how we are setting a compensation value… bla,bla, bla. Nope not going to do it. (I mean not now, my ocd will kick in and I’ll leave another comment in an hour). LOL. Another great video, Vanessa, thank you!

[@VanessaJoy]

Lol go ahead, if you’d like NO ONE first learning kelvins to understand you. Always teach to your audience 😜 but this is good bc those who get it will be curious to learn this next

[@melindamchurchill]

Serious question, I am studying this, I clicked this video to practice reviewing the values and the values in the video are backward right? I was trying to memorize the different values (day light, tungsten, shade/heavy overcast etc.) The video says the lower number values like 2800k would be cool colors and the higher values would be warmer colors, but I thought I understood it to be the other way around? I am not trying to be funny and this is the first comment that mentions that might be the case.

[@kathynassa9974]

It’s kind of like when you are learning aperture. The lower the number the bigger the opening and vice versa. 😂🤪

[@VanessaJoy]

@@kathynassa9974exactly!!!

[@VanessaJoy]

@@melindamchurchillso no, not really since I’m talking about the affect that the K has on the photo, vs the K value matching the light temperature. It can be confusing but I prefer explaining it through what it does to your picture as you move the dial ❤

[@davesmulders3931]

For people thinking the Kelvin scale is normally presented the other way around: It's true, it is due to the fact that Vanessa describes the effect it has on your photos, rather than the Kelvin scale itself. Which is a sensible thing to do....why overcomplicate things? The Kelvin scale for colour temperature itself is indeed warm orange for 2800K and blue for 10000K. If you take a tungsten wire and run current through it... it will first glow red, orange...and then blue the hotter it gets. That is why we call it a colour temperature as it's the colour that the wire emits at a certain temperature (in science temperature is measured in degrees Kelvin instead of Fahrenheit or Celcius). The reason why it is presented backwards here is because Vanessa describes the effect it has on your photos. With the Kelvin setting you will choose what colour temperature the camera sees as 'normal' or 'pure' white. You can imagine with mixed lighting (of different colour temperatures) that perceiving 9000K as pure white (which is very blue on the Kelvin scale), everything will seem orange in comparison. Also, perceiving 2800K as pure white (which is pretty orange on the temp scale) will make almost everything look very blue in comparison. That is why the Kelvin scale and the photo result are the other way around.

[@VanessaJoy]

Preach 🙌

[@ronadleman6899]

Beat me to it. Perfect explanation clarifying the difference as Vanessa’s video for newbie’s to white balance and color temperature may be easily confused. Well Done!

[@JoannaMoodstep]

Finally I get it and why I should use WB in camera. Great tips !

[@VanessaJoy]

Glad it was helpful!

[@JoannaMoodstep]

@@TigaWould thanks Anthony. I have a canon R6 so I guess I have to follow those tips. I have always stayed in that “all natural” zone and with this kind of advice I slowly open my mind to new possibilities. I used flash for the first time at my last wedding ! Slowly getting there. Thanks for your encouragement

[@ianthewright]

Two things... I learn so much from this channel, and I appreciate that things are kept real as well as fun.

[@VanessaJoy]

Appreciate you!!! And why be real if real isn’t fun right?

[@MichaelSuperbacker]

Hi Vanessa!

[@VanessaJoy]

Hi 👋

[@russeli1941]

Great video, thanx!

[@VanessaJoy]

My pleasure!

[@Gravelbomber]

I use kelvin most of the time, but sometimes use other settings depending on the situation. I NEVER use auto anymore. Auto always frustrated me.

[@VanessaJoy]

It used to frustrate me before the mirrorless system

[@fredrogers4186]

Argghhhh!!!! I was all set to sit around and eat ribs and potato salad for the next three days but now I need to go get some gels to try out the effect you covered at the end! 😆

[@VanessaJoy]

Do it!!! With the ribs and potato salad 😂

[@bobmclaughlin4896]

😊That's funny: for the past week, I was creatively shooting with white Balance. .. now, I would add jels to the flash. ... Thanks

[@VanessaJoy]

Fun!

[@jerrymoran8323]

Vanessa, The white balance setting is paramount when shooting inside with varied types of lighting in churches, commercial buildings, and Auditoriums. With the extreme ISO settings, you’re able to capture action shots at sporting events, any movement from animals or humans. The white balance neutralizes the yellow or blue ( warm and cold) You can Also create some spectacular fireworks. While post processing is the creative effort for saving or enhancing shots. Learn the complexities of your camera lens combo, utilize your creativity on the composure instead of hundreds of hours in post processing. Tack sharp is an art form. Soft images should be intentional, not covering for out of focus. Vanessa, really appreciate your tips on the latest as well as the entry level body with higher end glass for professional outcome. Continue with outstanding content. TRJM 🍀🦅✡️

[@VanessaJoy]

Couldn’t agree more!!!! Thanks for writing ☺️

[@erichramone7812]

Great video Vanessa. Question about the gel part? So this gel thing is it a filter for your flash? Or you lens or both. To blue to whole scene but keep the model in a warm skin tone

[@VanessaJoy]

A gel filter for the flash ☺️

[@vtgrphy3907]

I shoot in Kelvin whenever the sun set sky is involved. The auto white balance just doesn’t match what your eyes see.

[@VanessaJoy]

Good use of it!

[@JoHo66]

Hi Vanessa, first off all I love watching your videos! I have a question about the white balance setting when I use flash light connected on my camera body indoors. As I have hardly experience taking photos indoors, because I normally do outside street photography and not used to flash. Next week I have a five days event for work that will be at different indoors locations and they asked me to take the photos so that will be a challenge LOL. I have 2 older basic bodies the EOS 700D and on loan an even older model the EOS 50D with a Canon speedlight 600. My question: Do I need to set my white balance on flash mode or just leave it at auto or do you have an other suggestion? Thank you, Johan

[@VanessaJoy]

you might like the flash setting, which sets it at 5600k I believe. I think auto would potentially do about the same so i wouldn't worry about it too much unless you're going to put a CTO gel over your flash, and in that case you would set your kelvins to tungsten or about 3000k and that'll get rid of the yellow-look that a lot of on-camera flash indoor photos have

[@JoHo66]

@@VanessaJoy Thanks Vanessa for your answer much appreciate!!

[@wanneske1969]

If you picked the wrong colour temperature, you could always fix it in post, but the right colour temperature is also important to pick the right exposure in camera. Not a lot of people know this.

[@flightographist]

Is part 2 the episode where you freak everyone out and explain wb on a digital camera is really a gain adjustment function to adjust the sensitivity of the sensor to light and then how that effect is transferred/manifested into the captured image?

[@VanessaJoy]

yeah that sounds like a 102 lesson vs 101 lesson like this one ;-)

[@leokashian8846]

I just finished watching your video scolding Manni Ortiz about holding the camera with one hand. Then at 2:16 there you are doing the same thing. Yes, sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do to get the picture. I just thought it was amusing.

[@VanessaJoy]

Lol yeah you’ll note in that video I say there are always exceptions 😜

[@NewPhoto]

Nice Vid! quick note - your chapter title for 01:21 says "Kevin"... missing the L.😅

[@VanessaJoy]

Lol awesome- thx for the heads up!!

[@davesmulders3931]

Kelvins are normally guys VANESSA. (When are you going to do a new VANESSA video again? It was hilarious 😀 You can add in the "there is a bit of white sticking out VANESSA".... as well.)

[@VanessaJoy]

LMFAO 🤣

[@magixtv4863]

What you mean if you are shooting raw it doesn’t matter too much? 🙄 oga always white balance either ways

[@VanessaJoy]

Meaning you have all the leeway in the world

[@magixtv4863]

@@VanessaJoy not entirely, you still need to white balance, properly expose your shot and frame your composition, this saves you or the editors unnecessary waste of time

[@30dcanon]

Ok probably going to seem like a perv, but holy moly I kept getting distracted by that little bit of white peeking out from your dress on the right side.. But as always, very informative video!! :D

[@JoannaMoodstep]

You know that you don’t have to write down everything that goes through your mind ! Just a tip.

[@30dcanon]

@@JoannaMoodstep give the attention to details both her and her husband have in their videos, it’s odd they missed something like this. Of course they may not have thought it was an issue. As someone who who shoots professionally, if I noticed an issue like this while shooting, we would have fixed the issue. And you do know there is an adage in photography that the eye goes to the brightest spot, so when this flash of white keeps entering the scene, guess what happens.

[@VanessaJoy]

It’s a bra - you haven’t seen one before?

[@30dcanon]

@@VanessaJoy Yea I've seen a few!! LOL!! And distracted in that my eye kept seeing this flash of white pop out..

[@JoannaMoodstep]

@@30dcanon What bugs me is that, as a woman, even if your doing a great job, there is someone who is going to comment on how you dress. It’s not a photo where the attention to detail is key. This is a KZbin video sharing useful content not a fashion show. I wouldn’t care less even if she had a boob coming out ! Well may be this is a bit outrageous 😝