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Night photorgaphy white balance
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The D50 also appears to offer white balance bracketing, which might at least give you something to work with if you're stuck shooting jpegs. Looks like you also may be able to manually set it under "Preset" but you'd probably need the manual to tell for certain.
If you've got a converter, shoot raw and worry about white balance in post-processing. Especially for artificial lighting conditions at night where you get all sorts of colors, it's the easiest way to go since depending on the predominate light source, the shift could be anywhere from extreme yellow to blue.
Please I got a clear sky tonight and I dont want it to come out blue
If you've got a converter, shoot raw and worry about white balance in post-processing. Especially for artificial lighting conditions at night where you get all sorts of colors, it's the easiest way to go since depending on the predominate light source, the shift could be anywhere from extreme yellow to blue.
Too late I'm sure, but moon light is as white as day light. So if you don't know how to set the white balance correctly, just put the whitebalance for cloudy weather. The colours will be quite faithful then.
And next time when you want white to be white, photograph a white piece of paper and set custom whitebalance to that. If you have street lights lighting the paper that will not work since the street lights with not have white light, and you adjusting to the street lights will make all colour look very strange. So then still, shooting at "clouded" setting and in RAW if you need the extra room to adjust later is your best shot.
And next time when you want white to be white, photograph a white piece of paper and set custom whitebalance to that. If you have street lights lighting the paper that will not work since the street lights with not have white light, and you adjusting to the street lights will make all colour look very strange. So then still, shooting at "clouded" setting and in RAW if you need the extra room to adjust later is your best shot.