EOS 90D Advice on Auto White Balance settings

[Anonymous]

Hi 

I was recently reading Understanding Exposure and am already on RAW and M, 99% of the time. Really enjoying the learning process and trying to work without things that say Auto. 

I wondered what the feelings and thoughts are on AWB settings - any good advice welcome 

Thanks 

Twiddler

[p4pictures]

For the mirrorless cameras both EVF and LCD show the effect of the white balance setting in the preview image, and in the captured image displayed on the camera. For a DSLR using Live View the same holds true. 

For example if I set my mirrorless camera to AWB and look at the scene outside the colour looks as I expect, but if I change the white balance to tungsten, then the scene is much bluer toned. Tungsten white balance effectively adds lots of blue to combat the orange of the tungsten bulbs. My EOS 7D Mark II in live view set to tungsten white balance shows a blue scene when pointed at the daylight outside my office.

If I capture and image, then for RAW images there is an embedded JPG preview that has the white balance settings applied, plus the shooting info in the file shows what white balance the camera was set to when the photo was taken. If you capture a JPG on the camera then the image is processed with the selected white balance. 

@justadude 

When you look at images on the computer, you need to know that different programs use different approaches to preview / display RAW images. Canon DPP uses the camera settings as its initial point of display for a RAW. Other software might not care about the white balance settings - Windows Photo app is a possible one here, as it now automatically "enhances" RAW images when displaying them.

[justadude]

The odd thing is that no matter how I change the WB in camera on two similar images, obviously it shows on the camera screen... but the untouched RAW files on my Mac in Adobe Camera Raw, Lightroom, and DPP, you can't see any difference at all.  

[ebiggs1]

Gary it is simply not possible for a raw file to store or know WB. Brian below makes a great point.

You know I don’t read reviews or really any articles on the ole inner web. I went through all this when my company switched to digital from film. We had PS and Adobe folks in all the time because we were such a huge company and user. That’s where I got most of my experience and information.

[Ramsden]

Hi Gary

Apologies for long delay in replying. I got locked out in a reset password debacle - and ended up registering under a new email. Crazy Bots. I'll be getting an infra red filter before next monday. So I'll be open to help and advice. I like the look of it and at the moment it will work well with my shots of old railway viaducts - pylons going over mountains. Ive done some reading - but open to advice.

Thanks

Mark

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