Exploring Photography: White Balance and Color Temperature

Introduction

• Welcome

1. Principles of White Balance

• What is white balance?
• Understanding white balance and black-body radiation

2. How and Why White Balance Works

• Understanding auto white balance
• When auto white balance fails
• Understanding white balance and JPEGs

3. White Balance in Camera

• Understanding how white balance presets work
• Understanding how manual white balance works
• Understanding when a white balance adjustment is applied

4. Tools for White Balance

• Using the ExpoDisc for white balance
• Using a WhiBal card for white balance

5. White Balance Options

• Shifting and bracketing white balance
• Making stylistic white-balance choices
• Understanding what happens in a white-balance edit
• Understanding the white-balance correction options
• Correcting mixed white balance

Conclusion

• Next steps