Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Quick Tip Wednesday – Use a Gray Card


How many times have you been shooting nature or wildlife images where the colors look great on your camera's LCD but seem a little off in Lightroom? You can spend hours tweaking the white balance and HSL sliders in Lightroom's develop module trying to get your on-screen image to look like you remember it or you can buy a WhiBal gray card from the folks at RawWorkflow.com and solve this problem in just a few seconds.



Using a Gray Card




Fixing your white balance in Lightroom using a WhiBal gray card is as simple as clicking the White Balance Selector tool (eye-dropper) in the "Basic" panel of the "Develop Module" and then clicking on the neutral gray area of the WhiBal gray card in your image. The Temp and Tint sliders in the Basic panel will adjust to make the selected color neutral, resulting in the correct white balance for these lighting conditions. The final step is to "sync" the white balance for all the other images taken in the same lighting conditions.



Posted in Photography Tagged: Canon, Photographic Gear, WhiBal, White Balance



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