Setting White Balance

[DannyW]

How do you set the correct white balance for taking tank shots? Do you hold the white paper under the halides? or is there a better way?

Thanks Danny

[wookie7062]

I tend to shoot RAW and adjust in the image editor. Once you know the colour temperature I set that in as a manual kelvin setting. Some camera may not be able to do this of course.

You could get a bit of white acrylic or and put it under the water for a true white balance point. I think you will be pretty close doing what you suggest and a wee tweak afterwards would get it sot on.

[fullabeer]

Available in most good camera shops are pop-up white balance cards. Typically these are 50% grey as using white card can give an incorrect colour balance.

That's probably the best option to get the balance totally correct, but as Simon says, shoot in Raw then use photoshops raw processing ability to change the temperature. This method is more about creating a picture pleasing to your eye rather than being 100% correct as unless you metered the shot in the first place, you won't be able to tell the temperature.

Either method is good and personally, I tend to go the photoshop method.

HTH,

Steve

[SCOOB]

or if you don't have photoshop and 'stuff'

hold a white china plate under the water and set it off that.

[ourmanflint]

The Blue Peter way is to use the inside of a Weetabix packet as your grey card, not quite right but better than using Auto, alternatively you can set the K value in most modern digital SLR's.

If you use a grey card, you will have to select the image you took in the menu and set it as WB.

:D

[DannyW]

As for Raw format, its only a digi camera no SLR unfortunatly.. So when setting the white balance do you make sure you can only see the plate/cardboard in the picture? i.e. no background image?

Thanks Danny