White Balance Assignment

Digital Photography Assignment: White Balance 20 points

10 Photos, Due September 2

This assignment will show you how different environments have different color temperatures and show you how to adjust to each with your camera.

Make sure your camera is in RAW mode.

Have a friend come with you and shoot their "portrait":

In the sun, with each of these white balance settings:
Sunny
Cloudy
Shade

In the shade, with these settings:
Sunny
Shade
Tungston

Now go indoors. Turn on all the lights you can in the room so it is bright enough to take a photo without a flash. Repeat with these settings:
Auto
Sunny
Tungston
and Manual White Balance

For manual, consult your camera's user manual. Usually, you photograph a white piece of paper or a neutral grey card (18% grey), set the custom white balance to this shot in the menu, and set the white balance to custom.

When you finish your shots, import them to the computer, convert them to .JPG and upload them to Flickr. Title your image with setting and the white-balance setting used. For example
SUN-Sunny
SUN-Cloudy
SUN-Shade

If you don't remember which white balance you used, check the file metadata.