Created: 2007-06-29 17:21:56

By: Douglas Smith (douglas)

Summary: White Balance

You should check your camera for an “auto-white balance” setting, where you can set the white balance to a given white source. I use white paper (the “>100 brightness” copy paper is cheap and plentiful at office stores), and have the camera set the white balance off the paper for the ambient light, before taking photos of mushrooms. I found that for most digital cameras, if you are using mostly natural light, but taking photos in the shadows, you get most of your light from the sky, and that gives the photo a blue cast.

Also, if it looks white to you, it really looks blue to me, which makes me wonder if your monitor is color calibrated. I try to keep my monitor calibrated for gamma and color, so white is white on the screen. The web page I use for info on this is:

http://www.normankoren.com/...

Which makes me wonder if you have your monitor set to a low color temp., so you get blue images to compensate. Do other photos on here, like some of mine, look yellow to you?

Douglas