bassman
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A few weeks ago I received some assistance from Loungelizard with regard to my daughters forthcoming wedding.The advice was more or less shoot in raw with your nikon d8o in auto program mode use flash for all shots and make alterations as necessary in capture nx.
I have been experimenting recently so as to familiarise myself with camera and techniques but I am still a little unsure with regards to the flash.I use the relatively small nikon sb400 flash and am unsure whether to set the white balance to auto or flash and should I use the same white balance setting both for indoor lighting and natural outdoor light?
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PhilW
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if shooting raw leave the WB on Auto and use whatever looks right when converting them.
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bassman
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Thanks for your help Phil,much appreciated.
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herc182
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I would agree with Phil but I prefer to get white balance right in camera to save the faffing afterwards. Especially a wedding where I imagine you will take A LOT of photos. Shooting RAW means you can change it anyway, but I generally take a test shot and set WB manually until I am happy with it. Indoors, that WB will stand true (assuming you stay within the church which has uniform lighting), outside however, the WB will change as lighting changes (i.e. as the sun sets etc). So change WB when you get out and then maybe modify as and when.
Something worth mentioning (altho not from experience - from what I have read) is that some priests dont allow flash in the church. IF thats the case then you are relying on fast glass and high ISOs!
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bassman
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Thanks Herc,I imagine the light will change inside as well as the reception will be in a hall in daylight and the light will gradually fade until the disco when we will be completely reliant on electric.Think I will follow your plan of changing white balance outside dependant on conditions and use either auto or flash mode white balance inside.Taking test shots first certainly sounds liks a good idea.Thanks for your help.
Edited by bassman (15/05/2008 17:35)
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PhilW
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I would agree with Phil but I prefer to get white balance right in camera to save the faffing afterwards.
But if shooting RAW the camera WB setting makes no difference to the file (though the tag as to which setting you used might be there)
Also unless you shoot a custom WB for each shot any of the presets wil be a compromise anyway, so you are bound to tweak it a littl in processing.
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bassman
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So basically what you are saying is that in Raw I might as well shoot in auto white balance as altering to sun cloud shade etc will make no difference and I am still likely to need Capture nx to put the finishing touches to photos anyway.
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NorthernNikon
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So basically what you are saying is that in Raw I might as well shoot in auto white balance as altering to sun cloud shade etc will make no difference and I am still likely to need Capture nx to put the finishing touches to photos anyway.
Consider Raw as a digital negative which you have to rpocess to get the most out of it. Rather than do the processing in camera, using software such as Lightroom, Aperture or an other gives you far more control.
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bassman
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Thankyou,I understand that as long as I shoot in RAW I can `alter the images with Paint Shop Pro and Capture Nx to my own satisfaction but I still find it a little hard to understand why my Canon and Fuji compacts capture a true rendition of images and shadowed areas in particular in auto white balance and in fine or ordinary photo mode far more consistently than my £600 nikon d80 which very quickly picks up exaggerated blues or orange tints if it is not entirely happy with the colour temperature setting.
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