White balance (WB) is set to Auto on your camera as default. But what if you want to have a warm picture or a cooler one, so how about you telling the camera what to do instead of relying on technology to be creative for you. Take the image below, the sky was already pretty good looking, but I felt it was too blue, a cold light that I felt didn’t convey what I wanted it to look like. So I dialed in Cloudy on my presets, this gave me the equivalent of putting and 81B filter on my film cameras, if you want it to go warmer try using the Shade setting on your WB presets. Want to go cooler instead? Then how about trying Fluorescent or Incandescent for stronger/cooler blue, more like an 8A and 80B.
To get the finished look I was after, burning and dodging was done to the RAW file in Aperture.
The image is of Bisbane Waters in Gosford on the NSW Central Coast Australia, that piece of information was for my overseas reader’s.
