Handy White Balance Settings for Aperture 2
Thanks to the auto-white balance settings in digital cameras many photographers have moved away from accurately determining their subject’s white balance before shooting. This handy reference card is for the Aperture shooter who wants to make a White Balance Preset to bring their images back to correct in just about any light source.
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Author: David Schloss
David Schloss is the director of the Mac Create Network and the Aperture Users Network, a professional photographer, writer, editor and photographic educator who specializes adventure sports, travel and lifestyle photography. Schloss is the author of the books Blue Pixel Personal Photo Coach: Digital Photography Tips from the Trenches and Blue Pixel Guide to Travel Photography: Perfect Photos Every Time. Schloss is the former Technical Editor for Photo District News, a position he held for six years.
8 Comments
Nick
October 17th, 2009
Thank you for these. But how about the tint settings – I would have thought these will vary, at least a little?
Mike
October 17th, 2009
Thanks for concise, helpful settings. I arranged my presets by natural and artificial light sources.
Ungku Razak
October 18th, 2009
Hi,
My Aperture version is 2.1.4 .
Is this apperture 2 ??
Thank You.
Ungku Razak
David Schloss
October 18th, 2009
Yes.
Adolfo Sánchez
October 20th, 2009
I’m also curious about the role tint settings would play in this presets, would tint just remain in “0″?
Jim Edmondson (1 comments.)
October 23rd, 2009
Very handy, thank you
Dean
October 26th, 2009
Great list what are your tint setting of your sets ?
I found this presets for basic settings http://blogs.oreilly.com/aperture/2006/11/create-your-own-white-balance-1.html
I would like to see your tint setting
Thanks
Jules Selmes (1 comments.)
October 30th, 2009
I think the tint setting depends on your camera. When I first got Aperture1 I diligently typed in a list like this one but with tint settings and they all looked awful. Then I realsied the author was a Canon user but I am a Nikon user. Things got more confusing when I up-dated to Ap2 and the raw engine for Nikon was miles better and my images did not need anywhere near the same amount of tint adjustment to look good. So I say to you buy a grey card and put together your own preset list as you encounter more and more different colour temps.temp?