Pro White Balance Tip to Fix Beginner's Greatest Challenge!

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In this week’s episode, we discuss a pro white balance tip that's guaranteed to solve beginner's greatest challenge. I'm always open with my struggles related to photography and have mentioned this on more than one occasion that White Balance is by far the most difficult aspect of photo editing for me. But, after years of trial and error, I've finally landed on a process that works great for me and I now feel more confident than ever when it comes to selecting an appropriate White Balance. And, in this video, I'll review the multiple ways to correct White Balance using Lightroom and will show you the process that changed it all for me! I hope you enjoy this week's video and as always thanks so much for watching! - Mark D.
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@MarkDenneyPhoto 11 месяцев назад

💥QUESTION: Which White Balance setting do you use in camera?

@jhmnieuwenhuis 11 месяцев назад

Auto

@scottmiller9621 11 месяцев назад

Custom white balance using gray card.

@mariusvaiciulis5072 11 месяцев назад

it's auto. i just see no reason to mess around that setting. maybe with jpeg out of camera, that would be a completely different story.

@DaveBerthiaume 11 месяцев назад

Always use auto and worry about it in post. One less thing to have to think about in the field.

@scothowe539 11 месяцев назад

I’ve always used auto then use temp slider to adjust to my liking. I also have a little point and shoot that I had converted to infrared. Totally different story for that. I use a custom white balance taken from green grass.

@vzshadow1 11 месяцев назад

When using the color picker, any time you get the same three numbers for the three channels it's a good spot to choose.

@lesath7883 3 месяца назад

But if you pick a spot with all 3 channels con the same level, then you are picking the same color balance that you have in the picture.

@basilbcf 11 месяцев назад

Something I sometimes do in scenes that have large areas that are very different is to use masking (like linear gradient) and apply white balance to specific areas rather than applying one white balance to the entire scene. Don't do this al the time, but in some situations I find it can really add some punch to an image.

@drmathochist06 11 месяцев назад

The sails make a good example of not using a known-white because you DO want a color cast, in this case yellowish. In forest shots, I find that I often want some greenish cast because that's how it feels. Even using an 18% grey card would get it "wrong". My solution is usually to use the known-white with the picker, and then manually bump the yellow-blue and magenta-green sliders to get the cast that feels right from that point.

@karyleianawildernesscapes 11 месяцев назад

My cameras stay at my custom WB [5000k] 98% of the time. For myself, I've found that to be the most "neutral" for majority of scenes & a good place to start when I do edit. Only time I personally use AUTO WB is for Underwater. For Astro, I'll use 5400K-5500K, depends on the scene, if there's Light pollution of some kind (& what color it is), but the reasoning for a "neutral-warm" WB is that stars have a warmer color in them. & when people choose cooler WBs, they effectively take away alot of the natural colors in the stars & often it leaves a very odd-looking blue/cyan tint to the sky, which is NOT natural looking. The other reason for a set WB (vs Auto) in Astro is typically people will stack their images for cleaner files, but if your WB shifts, many stacking softwares WON'T stack the files bc the settings aren't all identical.

@ravenfallsphotography6254 11 месяцев назад

In the past, I've done the same…but cranked Vibrance to max instead. The results were genuinely psychedelic - but sure showed up any color cast immediately.

@animahon 11 месяцев назад

One thing that I always find hard, is to rest you eyes after watching a highly vibrant/saturated picture. It often makes me over adjusting things later on.. Amazing work btw :)

@YrjoPuska777 10 месяцев назад

You forgot to mention changing white balance with tone curves instead of white balance tool, but that definitely is not for beginners. But with it, you can change white balance to be different in different brightnesses, for example keep it pure white on highlights, but add warmth to mid tones and maybe even cooler to dark areas if that suits the image.

@lphilpot01 11 месяцев назад

In some limited situations such as macro or other "nearby" subject matter there can be a fifth method -- Shooting a color checker (or even grey card) and then balancing on that. But when you're shooting a mountain seven miles away, the color checker or grey card gets too small to see after you've stretched your arm seven miles... 🙂At any rate, as you said "technical" white balance needs to be done first, before "artistic" color shifts are made.

@juergenbaumann8817 11 месяцев назад

While leaving the camera on auto WB (Nikon) - shooting a color checker with several neutral gray points will be beneficial - as you can quickly warm up or cool down your photo with the 'correct' WB and Tint combination. It brings you very quick in the right ball park and take it from there. And as a benefit you can use what your camera auto WB delivers. When ever possible, that is my most preferred approach. In my opinion that is not a limited scenario - you just have to make sure, that the same quality of light hits your gray card / color checker as your main subject or scene.

@mamaadura9831 11 месяцев назад

Not gon lie that light change was cool🎉🎉

@nerdnam 10 месяцев назад

I think the saturation trick works because what you want with white balance (and the reason your brain does it) is to be able to see the most different colors.

@JFW5358 11 месяцев назад

I leave my camera on AWB and then use the same methods as you to set white balance but I would think you make it more difficult for yourself by having the coloured background lighting in your room.

@davidbuurma9309 3 месяца назад

Mark and Nick…my dream photo teaching team!

@rayganrambles 10 месяцев назад

It's neat how the white balance had an effect on the exposure too! It brightened up your Bali photo quite a bit.

@gossedejong9248 11 месяцев назад

brilliant, thank you!!

@verseone1111 3 месяца назад

thanks a bunch sir, this is so helpful, always find it hard to do white balance on a photo without "white" on it. As a beginner this is absolutely helping me, thank you

@randysalinas4547 8 месяцев назад

VHS tapes and the original iPod? I had to check the date of the video😂 Thanks for an easy to follow guide.

@georgehatzipantelis4642 Месяц назад

very informative Mark

@MrCrochunter 11 месяцев назад

I generally use the dropper if I find the white balance to seem a little off. I also wanted to thank you for all your videos but especially this type of videos. I have been incorporating a lot of your methods into my workflow and I feel that the quality of my work and final images has improved a lot. Thank you for sharing your experience.

@michelekutner4229 11 месяцев назад

Fantastic waterfall

@BarrySchirm 11 месяцев назад

When using the eye dropper tool, I have found it is best to get the three values (RGB) on the small grid that displays as you hover over a point as close together as possible. With a true neutral grey, the three values will be the same.

@paragontim 9 месяцев назад

Great tips, Mark - thanks for sharing!

@kenthhagstrom 9 месяцев назад

Really useful tips! Thank you!

@rlau68 11 месяцев назад

Thanks for the detailed pointers Mark! Always appreciate your insight and photos 👍

@martinlennon4673 11 месяцев назад

Like your white balance workflow. I’ll use it. Thanks 👍

@Twobarpsi 6 месяцев назад

Good info!

@skylerostler2035 10 месяцев назад

Great workflow, thank you so much for putting this together, this has been a struggle for me for a while too and I was kind of just having to "play it by eye" but I like that this takes a little of the pressure off and makes it easier to find that visual balance! Thank you!

@brucedelorme5026 11 месяцев назад

As usual with your instructional, you lay it out sply but proficiently. I love your lightroom and photoshop vlogs.

@BobG-eh5fc 9 месяцев назад

Thanks for a great tutorial!!! WB is always an art and you explained it well.

@swissheartydogs 11 месяцев назад

Dear Mark, great topic. Always check and set my WB to start and focus my mind on the forthcoming photos. And again when editing. Crucial.

@supong_al_creation 9 месяцев назад

Thank you Mark you've been the best when it comes to editing tutorial

@mastervic47 11 месяцев назад

Great thank you

@ThufromThun 6 месяцев назад

Thanks!

@andydelphoto 6 месяцев назад

Good stuff. For tricky scenes I have found a lot of success using the Arias method of yanking the temp wayyy to the left or right and then slowly working it back and forth towards a temp that looks good to me, then doing the same with tint. It's similar to the full saturation method. Seeing everything completely out of whack makes the right colors more apparent to the nekid eye.

@dallaswright3577 11 месяцев назад

Another good video for the reason I watch your channel- very down to earth and straight forward.

@VolumetricDesign 6 месяцев назад

Great tutorial!

@iwemanic 11 месяцев назад

Mark, really appreciate your post processing vids. They have helped me immeasurably.

@vaclavpotucek9060 11 месяцев назад

Hi Mark, thank you for introducing this aproach. I must admit it was pretty inspiring!

@michaelhayward6097 11 месяцев назад

Excellent tutorial - you have helped me out with fixing my landscape vacation pics -- thank you

@timking1964 4 месяца назад

Thanks Mark. A helpful video, and nice and gently presented too (as always). This may have already been raised in the hundreds of positive comments, but as you increase saturation, it’s often easy to see where colour channels separate in the histogram (we could see it on your screen!). It seems to me that part of achieving a good white balance is to bring those peaks closer together…

@hilleviupmanis8687 10 месяцев назад

Thank you for the video

@davidmill7289 11 месяцев назад

Really useful. Thanks Mark.

@MarkDenneyPhoto 11 месяцев назад

Glad you enjoyed it David!

@hayatkarimi9562 11 месяцев назад

thank you Mark this is truly helpful!

@MarkDenneyPhoto 11 месяцев назад

Glad to do it!

@kqschwarz 10 месяцев назад

The reason clicking on the side of the boat worked better than the sail is NOT because it is “more neutral”. A sail that is white in color is at neutral as it gets. The reason the sail failed to produce the “correct” white balance is because the “correct” white balance for this photo is warmer than neutral because the sun was setting and the natural light was “warm”. The white balance tool sets whatever you pick to neutral, not the warmer light that was actually present at the time of the photo. The reason the side of the boat worked a bit better than the sail is the side of the boat was in shadow, whereas the sails were trans illuminated by the warm setting sun light. Therefore, neutralizing the shadow light still preserved the warmer tone that was present in the sails and anything else that was directly illuminated by the setting sun. Love your videos. All the best

@davidtripp4221 11 месяцев назад

Great video! I can't wait to try your technique out on some of my photos.

@MarkDenneyPhoto 11 месяцев назад

Thanks David!

@user-mr8bo9sm2u 11 месяцев назад

Mark, you are the best on you tube at explaining photo editing - thank you

@CluelessYoutuber 11 месяцев назад

I’m glad the process I use for WB is what you shared! I often boost both Saturation and Vibrance and balance from there, then adjust individual colors from the mixer 😁

@lesath7883 3 месяца назад

Thank you for the video. Very useful.

@jhmnieuwenhuis 11 месяцев назад

Excellent tip. Thanks!

@MarkDenneyPhoto 11 месяцев назад

Thanks a million!

@markodell5466 8 месяцев назад

Excellent video. Adjusting white balance has always been one of my biggest challenges!

@marksuchomelsr6698 10 месяцев назад

Sol Duc Falls. That tree has been lying across the falls since before 1994, when I was there. Great place.

@Leesa45degree 5 месяцев назад

great trick. I picked some my old picture and tried your method. it works brilliant to have consistency from picture to picture. Thanks!

@jchua13 9 месяцев назад

*Omo* the saturation trick is sooo useful ~ so glad I'm subscribed 😂

@jremi Месяц назад

Very useful! I also struggled with white balance and it makes a lot of sense that the "correct" white balance is not necessarily what works best for a particular photo. Thank you!

@evaeriksson9950 11 месяцев назад

Will definitely try that tip! I have always found white balance editing to be quite challenging!

@williampetersen2899 11 месяцев назад

Mark, I'm loving this "Saturation Slider White Balnce" trick! A great idea that I'm definitely going to try! I also like to use WB as a local adjustment, especially on skies, water and fog in shade.

@davidligon6088 11 месяцев назад

Another great tip for an area I struggle with. Thank you for your work on these videos.

@MarkDenneyPhoto 11 месяцев назад

Great to hear you enjoyed it David!

@johnpollock6996 11 месяцев назад

Great video Mark. I had never seen anyone use the Saturation 100 and back down method. I will definitely try it. Judging from the cast in your office, it certainly looks like you have perfected the Carolina Blue balance!

@tjkennedyphoto 10 месяцев назад

Colourblind photographer here. This one gets you a sub 🤙🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻. Thanks!

@mbongisenidlamini1538 11 месяцев назад

Thanks for this extra extra tool Mark. When I started photography it never occurred to me that WB would be such a hard issue, especially when your camera also shoots video with the same WB settings. Auto doesn't always work for video. Bought an expo disc which works well just cumbersome. Will be trying this tip for sure, thanks!

@charliejg 11 месяцев назад

Thanks Mark! I use C1, but never used the eyedropper/color picker method. It's pretty interesting. Typically, I will adjust to make something that should be white actually look white. If you notice that is what happened to the sails on the boat. But, starting with the color picker is a help!

@nottoosalty 9 месяцев назад

Thank you! I'm new to photography and editing, and white balance is something i've had trouble understanding.

@annmelnichuk3399 11 месяцев назад

Thank you Mark! I always forget the saturation trick. I generally use sliders to get the histogram aligned: that becomes my "neutral". Then I use the sliders some more to set the mood.

@mikebartow9415 11 месяцев назад

Set camera (Z9) to Auto WB. I have used the eye dropper and the temp slider but never thought about changing saturation then readjust the temp. THANKS!

@MarkDenneyPhoto 11 месяцев назад

Glad it was helpful!

@stephenschmid492 11 месяцев назад

Thank you, Mark, good tip! I will have to try that. I've noticed that when manually adjusting the Temperature slider in a photo with many colors (e.g. a landscape at sunset) the point that is best is when you can see the maximum number of different colors.

@BobG-eh5fc 11 месяцев назад

Thanks for a great workflow!

@MarkDenneyPhoto 11 месяцев назад

Happy to do it Bob!

@ramonnunez915 7 месяцев назад

I just color balanced a scene using the technique you demonstrated for the sail boat, it worked like a charm on my image. I am glad I saw your video. Thank you very mucho.

@simonpayne7994 11 месяцев назад

This seems to be quite good advice. Temporally bumping up the saturation prior to fiddling around with the white balance makes life that much easier. Good idea!

@sjedouglas 11 месяцев назад

That was a good watch. For the most part, I tend to do what you suggested was unusual by adjusting the sliders by eye till most of the scene looks good, then I go in and make localised adjustments to the colours in certain areas until I get the photo looking exactly how I want it. However, there are some photos where I feel I can never get it quite right so I'll definitely be using the tips in this video.

@13MoonsOverMayhem 11 месяцев назад

Dude, THANK YOU! I'm shooting in JPEG right now to save space, but these tips are working for me, too! I paused the video part way through to go try it and ended up re-editing a bunch of photos for hours and they look so much better! I did come back and finish the video, lol. Seriously, this is immensely helpful, I appreciate so much that you're willing to share.

@HenriqueSilva-hk2mv 11 месяцев назад

A big difficulty I have is actually finding the most correct point possible for WB. Once again, he is a great help, with his knowledge and sharing of the same, to resolve this issue. Without a doubt, the forms that you presented help a lot and make it much easier to find the most correct point of the WB. Thank you for your help and teaching.

@wandering.camera.guy.411 11 месяцев назад

Best tip of the month if not year for me. Thanks a bunch. 🏅🍻

@MarkDenneyPhoto 11 месяцев назад

Awesome to hear - thank you!

@GiovanniBausC 10 месяцев назад

Usually I start with the „daylight“ setting in LR or C1 but I also shoot more and more with the camera on AWB to have this as kind of a second opinion. In any case, the idea of pulling up the saturation slider to max to help determine the desired adjustments is a very good one which I‘ll surely adopt.

@bukcity9790 11 месяцев назад

I was actually just thinking yesterday afternoon about needing to search for a Mark Denney video on White Balance. Thank you so much for sharing!

@MarkDenneyPhoto 11 месяцев назад

Perfect timing!

@terricarpenter1798 11 месяцев назад

Thank you for this video. I've been struggling with white balance for years. I really enjoy your videos. Thank you so much for sharing.

@MarkDenneyPhoto 11 месяцев назад

Glad you enjoyed it Terri!

@christinewalliss456 10 месяцев назад

What a great video, did some final adjustments to some of my photos that i am collating for a book, " black and white high key". What a difference, thank you

@SpankyMcJedi 11 месяцев назад

I've been struggling with nailing a process for this for years. Thanks for this one!

@MarkDenneyPhoto 11 месяцев назад

Always happy to do it!

@jukkarauhala9778 9 месяцев назад

This is great video. I tried your instructions on some of my old photos that I haven't been happy with. Now I made them look a much better and more natural. The problem is that now I would like to edit all my old pictures again:) . Thanks a lot Mark

@malcolmfoster6266 10 месяцев назад

Hey Mark, I have been shooting real estate photography full time for over four years now and my BIGGEST struggle has been the correct white balance. I was working on a shoot while watching this video and now I no longer have a problem. Used your method real time, right away. Your saturation solution is absolutely brilliant!!! Thank you so much for putting this out there. Cheers!

@Mister_EL. 10 месяцев назад

Good tips. Helped me improve my WB adjustment quite a bit...

@photosbyadamclarke 10 месяцев назад

Great tips Mark! In applying these techniques, I find that I have to walk away from the image after moving the saturation slider back to neutral, to give my eyes a few minutes to adjust again, before finishing it off. I found your technique particularly useful in very colorful shots. Thank you!

@susanfirth2279 11 месяцев назад

Great video Mark. Question for you - do you change your picture profile in camera when doing landscape to either landscape or neutral? If so, when you do choose neutral? Thanks in advance.

@jeffnewman8261 11 месяцев назад

Thanks for this video Mark. I struggle with white balance too, and am anxious to try your method. I've been told that you shouldn't adjust white balance until after you corrected your exposure.

@dfinlay587 11 месяцев назад

White balance is always a nonlinear event. I edit a lot of underwater photos, and white balance can be a nightmare with those. Thanks Mark.

@MarkDenneyPhoto 11 месяцев назад

Glad to do it my friend!

@stephenschmid492 11 месяцев назад

When I first got my camera in 2017, before I started shooting raw, I accidentally had the white balance on Underwater during a trip to Spain. Yikes! Luckily, the bright daylight photos didn't look too bad.

@hotflashfoto 11 месяцев назад

Green grass is a good substitute for 18% gray when it isn't easy to find... I really appreciate this video! I've always struggled with adjusting WB, too, so this is so powerful for me. Thank you so much!

@menachemsadeh8603 10 месяцев назад

I use another trick that I wish to share. When I need an exact white balance, I add somewhere in the image a linear gradient and reduce the saturation to zero. Then all the values with white balance selector are equal,. I change the exosure if needed. Then and it is vey easy to find a point within the linear gradient with 46, 46, 46. (18% gray) Then I delete the mask of the linear gradient and the image is balanced.

@chrisrinaldi5936 11 месяцев назад

Very helpful Mark. I’ll give it a try.

@MarkDenneyPhoto 11 месяцев назад

Happy to hear it!

@andreasbininda6226 11 месяцев назад

Pretty interesting!

@MarkDenneyPhoto 11 месяцев назад

Glad you think so!

@narwhal004 10 месяцев назад

I have a rainbow in my picture of Sol Duc falls. :)

@lplazaj 8 месяцев назад

Great job on the explanation of your workflow, you break down the particulars of the color casts to be considered so one can make good choices about which tool or tools to use and in what order to achieve visually pleasing results. What do you think about using the Tone Curve tool to control color cast? Each channel has its own color specialty along the tonal spectrum for more precise control.

@SinaFarhat 11 месяцев назад

That was excellent! :) I was once asked to digitize false colour infrared film photos and finding a "correct" white balance on those photos was a mess!

@peteralfredhess 11 месяцев назад

Thank you! I am loving this approach. I always evaluate tone by turning saturating to -100 (or tap v for monochrome), so the idea of turning sat up to 100 to evaluate white balance is beautifully intuitive. Great video!

@MarkDenneyPhoto 11 месяцев назад

Happy to hear you enjoyed it!

@nerdcastles 11 месяцев назад

Gotta love that view of Sol Duc Falls. Your shot looks so great.

@MarkDenneyPhoto 11 месяцев назад

Thank ya!

@aygie 11 месяцев назад

Really enjoyed the video but had to shout out to the iPod classic! Love seeing people still rocking them 🤘🏻

@MarkDenneyPhoto 11 месяцев назад

Thanks my friend!

@kristopherjwolff 11 месяцев назад

Great video as always. I love the tip of going to 100% saturation first... This is going to be very helpful... I still struggle with (and I'm looking for a video about) how to even know what I'm looking for. For example, in the video you say things like "clearly it's too green" and i don't even know how to see that

@donaldbernhardt 11 месяцев назад

You should feel proud of yourself. I've been applying your white balance technique on underwater photos and the result is stunning. Auto camera and auto LR just work poorly on underwater photos. I've always struggled greatly getting white balance anything close to even acceptable. With your 100% saturation technique, I can quickly make adjustments and the results are VERY consistent from photo to photo which tells me the method is quite valid. The photos look as I always hoped for but seldom achieved. Thanks for your fantastic videos. They're much appreciated and be aware they're resulting in real changes to your subscriber's photo editing capabilities.

@TheRaymonddube 11 месяцев назад

Thanks so much for these tips. Very helpful. Where is that wonderful waterfall?

@34Media 11 месяцев назад

good tips as always well explained too , you shoudl of been a teacher you have a knack of getting things across in a way i can easily understand cheers mate

@MarkDenneyPhoto 11 месяцев назад

Thanks so much!

@DaveBerthiaume 11 месяцев назад

I'll have to try that method, but I don't know if I should trust tips from someone who still has VHS tapes on their desk.🙂 Cheers, Mark!

@MarkDenneyPhoto 11 месяцев назад

Hahahah! Thanks Dave!