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teamschock3
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« on: November 05, 2004, 04:40:54 AM »

I enjoy trying to capture the golden hour photos. My question is, how does the white balance affect the colors? What setting would be best?
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« Reply #1 on: November 05, 2004, 07:00:51 AM »

Hi there Teamschock3 and welcome to the Digicamhelp Q&A Board!

In a nutshell, white balance settings are designed to measure the light coming into the camera and then make color adjustments to achieve a "true white".  What it is doing is trying to match the "color temperature" of the incoming light. If you've played around with your white balance presets, you'll see the color shift applied to the image by white balancing.

Now, autopresets work fine if you want white to appear true white but what if you don't. What if you want that warm sunset glow to remain present in your image. That is, you don't want the camera to compensate and therefore reduce or eliminate that warm color temperature ("golden hour" color). In this case, select the "daylight" white balance setting and you'll retain that lovely warm glow.  Wink

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« Reply #2 on: November 05, 2004, 07:14:50 AM »

For our site visitors who may have never heard the term "Golden Hour" (a simply magnificant time of the day or evening to take photos), here is some information:

What is the Golden Hour?

http://www.digicamhelp.com/what-is-the-golden-hour/


And here is some information and illustrations about White Balance:

http://www.digicamhelp.com/white-balance/
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