Canon G9 White Balance Setting

[Richard H]

What setting do you use for white balance ? I am thinking of shooting in RAW and adjusting in Photoshop afterwards. What white balance setting would you recommend ? I can't decide between cloudy and automatic white balance.

Recommendations would be appreciated.

Thanks

Richard

 

[Kydonia]

For land, I mostly use AWB. Sometimes cloudy which warms up people's skin tones.

For underwater, I use awb or flash when using flash.... and with ambient light, I've tried both AWB and the uw setting (fish symbol) but find they don't work well and images still come out WAY too blue/green.
I have a plastic grey card and want to start doing more underwater custom white balances.
I believe the G9 has 2 custom white balance settings. One can be set for around 15 feet, and another for 50 feet or so.
I'm still trying to master all this

 

[John_B]

White balance needs to be set for pictures in the JPEG format, as the white balance affects the "warmth" of the image as it is first converted to JPEG, then saved.

If you are taking pictures in RAW format, the WB setting doesn't matter because you are saving the "raw" image (literally, exactly what the sensor saw) prior to any image conversion taking place. You then adjust the WB later in software (PS/Aperture/etc.). That's actually one of the reasons to use RAW if your camera supports it. But the image will still need to be converted from RAW to JPEG (or whatever) and be touched-up be usable by anyone else.

If you are saving the images in combined JPEG+RAW (so you have usable JPEGs now plus the flexibility of RAW later) then WB is important just for the JPEGs.

 

[Jorgy]

I took an underwater photography class in Bonaire with Fish-Eye Photo (great shop, great class, highly recommended). First as stated earlier for RAW white balance is not an issue, for JPEG's:

When shooting with internal flash, FE recommended cloudy?

The class included a day with an external strobe, for that we set a custom white balance using the white table top in the classroom before the dives.....

Using an external strobe was a real eye opener for me, now I own two YS-110 strobes, shoot exclusively in manual and save RAW.

Hope this helps......M