Auto White Balance: Yay or Nay?

Then, what exactly is the white balance and why is it so important for digital photography?

The rudimentary response is that the light (the foundation of Photography) has of color temperatures variables at different times of the day. Your eyes are much better in the treatment of color that a digital camera. As well, a white object will always be white for you, despite the conditions. The white balance is the process that the camera uses to eliminate the castings of colors produced by these different color temperatures and helps your camera to imitate what our eyes are naturally when it deals with the white.

Auto White Balance sometimes gives results very close to what you see with your eyes.

The brightness of the light of the day can be used to improve the existing colors of your scene.
Automatic White Balance (AWB),
the parameter Auto White Balance (AWB) helps your camera to "guess" the best option or to choose the closest to this that your eyes could see. Many times AWB works best when you are working on the outside with a natural lighting, that in situations of lighting more complex.
The white in the white balance
to understand when AWB is working well and is applicable, it is also important that you understand the different presets of white balance that your camera offers. They include; light of day, cloudy, Shade, Tungsten and Fluorescent. Added to this is Flash, Kelvin and Custom White Balance. It is to be noted that the Custom Mode White Balance is used when you have to the lighting conditions particularly difficult and that you must lock your whites in function of these conditions. This is an option under-used which gives excellent results, then check your manual and experience the some time.

Delicate Arch, Utah - Edited with a parameter of white balance custom.
The parameter Auto White Balance evaluates your scene and chooses the brightest part of your image as a white point, which can unfortunately vary from one moment to the other. Over the years, significant improvements have been made to the systems AWB and the results improve. Even with these developments, it is difficult for Auto White Balance to correct certain types of lighting (p. ex., configurations of artificial lighting or combined). Another instance where it is not recommended to use AWB is when taken by panoramic views , because you run the risk to vary the light on your image sewn.

Boats pulled with a custom WB. In a Panoramic Shooting, if AWB is used, it can vary from a blow to the other
the inverse problem also exists - when AWB corrects the encodings of colors that you do not want, such as when you photograph a sunset or a scene where the color of the light is essential to the image. Some of the presets in white balance listed above, are put in place to provide a certain level of correction to lighting scenarios typical. Here, you say to the camera the good setting for the occasion and take more control on your final image.
The brute force
If you launch RAW, you are probably aware that the RAW files retain all color data captured by your camera. This retention allows you to modify or choose a setting of White Balance Different during the further processing of your RAW files. Some argue that even with this convenient feature, AWB does not give you the best colors .

Fired with daylight WB (camera) against the Daylight WB (Photoshop) Treaty
another perspective of adjusting the white balance in the camera ensures that, during the phase of treatment, your color rendering is consistent in all your plans (p. ex. When taking a picture of a marriage ). It should also be noted that AWB can give you different results in the same scene. So you can move from a set of colors in a large angle to another set of colors when you zoom in. You all have two examples of loss of harmony when you are working on a series of images.

Take the control
you can use AWB because it is more easy to let the camera find the white balance according to the scene in front of you. However, as indicated earlier, it is useful when you know how and when to use it. The adjustment of the white balance is not so formidable that it seems and when conditions are not variables, simply adjust your white balance once (for these conditions).

Using RAW and WB to take control over the appearance of your results.
Therefore, if you are in the open air in sunny day, set your white balance to daylight or sunny. If it is cloudy, choose the cloudy white balance and, in a similar way, if you are in the shade, choose Shadow. These are very simple to remember in the function of the simple naming convention. On the inside, for filament lamps, choose tungsten (incandescent or) and when you shoot a zone with fluorescent lamps, choose fluorescent. This is what is called the adjustment of your white balance for your shooting conditions are compatible.

You can also set your white balance to change your existing conditions. Once you start to experiment with the white balance, and to understand how this affects your images , use it to become a creative or for your image to be warmer or colder.

White balance used to make the image more cool.
Conclusion
The auto white balance is a handy parameter to have when you do not know what white balance would work for your scene . If you start in RAW , you can easily change your white balance after you have found the best option.

If you want more control over your results, choose one of the presets from the camera white balance, already adapted to specific conditions or create your own (custom white balance). Define your White Balance eliminates this step of post-additional processing of the repair from scene to scene and gives you more consistent results.

What is your white balance and are you a fan of the use of AWB? Tell me in the Comments
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