3 | CAMERA SKILLS
Balancing act
Mike Harris shows you five ways to keep white balance in check –and how you can fix it during the editing stage
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ave you ever wondered why some photographs have a warm, yellowish hue, x while others have a cooler, bluish hue?
This is because light sources emit different colour temperatures; although the human eye is adept at neutralising them automatically, your camera sometimes needs a helping hand.
White balance is so called because it refers to the process of rendering a white object white, despite the colour temperature of the light source. Colour temperature is measured in Kelvin (K) –direct sunlight is roughly 5,000K, for example, and our Nikon D800 and Z 6II cameras capture a range from 2,500K (very warm) to 10,000K (very cool). But you don’t have to know what the various Kelvin values mean – all you have to do is set your camera up for success.