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  1. 18th September 2011, 01:37 AM #1
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    Setting Custom White Balance (CWB)

    Does anyone here set a CWB? I have a shoot coming up for a newborn (I've never photographed one before, I'm a mess and I'm not being paid a cent haha). I have a Nikon D90 and I've found instruction on youtube on how to set it, I also have a grey card. Normally I'm outdoors and use 'cloudy'.

    Skin tones on newborns are notoriously difficult so I'm thinking setting a CWB would be advantageous, especially given I don't know what sort of light source I'm going to have to work with. Or I just make sure I photograph the card and play in post? I'm calibrated so should be able to eyeball it...hopefully... What would you recommend?

    Oh and this is Sarah/LSD, thought I should start using this profile since it's quite fitting. It was registered a long time ago as a joke

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  2. 18th September 2011, 11:01 AM #2
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    Sarah,

    In my Canon you just take a pic of the grey card then select that image in Manual WB settings to set the WB. I assume that the D90 will be similar.

    I found this on Youtube which covers it for the D90.

    [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MQTO9tiXb0]Nikon D90- White Balance - YouTube[/ame]

    Or, you could just use RAW mode and adjust the WB during editing.

    Cheers,
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  3. 18th September 2011, 11:15 AM #3
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    Thanks That was the youtube video I saw! so yes just taking a picture of the card and then setting it via 'pre' on the menu. I always shoot raw so I think I might still try and set custom but then I still have the back up of lightroom anyway.
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  4. 4th October 2011, 01:46 PM #4
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    If you shoot raw it doesn't really matter how you set your white balance as you can adjust in post production anyway. So you could just pick a setting of say, daylight.
    What you probably don't want is AWB if shooting a sequence of shots for a panorama.
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  5. 7th October 2011, 04:59 PM #5
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    Bought a fold up grey card on the weekend to give it a go.
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  6. 11th October 2011, 10:54 PM #6
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    Did you get a chance to give it a go?
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  7. 2nd November 2011, 11:38 AM #7
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    shoot in raw and adjust in lightroom [perhaps try and reduce the amount of white in images as it may pick up a cast as you change w/balance]
    them baby things are a strange color to start with lol
    good luck
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  8. 2nd November 2011, 11:31 PM #8
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    Quote Originally Posted by mfc View Post
    shoot in raw and adjust in lightroom [perhaps try and reduce the amount of white in images as it may pick up a cast as you change w/balance]
    them baby things are a strange color to start with lol
    good luck
    Thanks the shoot went really well. To be honest I edited baby to a colour that I felt was representative rather than accurate. Sometimes limbs go purple, skin goes red, it was hard to have it uniform across the range of images
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