Exploring Photography: White Balance and Color Temperature

Learn how taking control of the white balance in your photography can expand your creative options and improve the accuracy of the color in your photos.

Introduction

• Welcome

1. Principles of White Balance

• What is white balance?
• Understanding white balance and black-body radiation

2. How and Why White Balance Works

• Understanding auto white balance
• When auto white balance fails
• Understanding white balance and JPEGs

3. White Balance in Camera

• Understanding how white balance presets work
• Understanding how manual white balance works
• Understanding when a white balance adjustment is applied

4. Tools for White Balance

• Using the ExpoDisc for white balance
• Using a WhiBal card for white balance

5. White Balance Options

• Shifting and bracketing white balance
• Making stylistic white-balance choices
• Understanding what happens in a white-balance edit
• Understanding the white-balance correction options
• Correcting mixed white balance

Conclusion

• Next steps