Experimenting with white balance in class this week... I used my 50mm prime lens to photograph a simple plastic cup on a pale grey desk at f/1.8 on aperture priority (ISO 200).
Oddly, my auto white balance (AWB) produces a desaturated image; almost black and white:
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| AWB |
I then toggled the white balance presets to see what effect this had on the image:
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| Daylight |
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| Shade |
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| Cloudy |
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| Tungsten light |
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| Fluorescent light |
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| Flash |
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| Custom |
Bearing in mind the harsh fluorescent lighting in our classroom, it's strange that the most realistic capture (in my eyes) was taken with my (usually horrible) on-camera flash. The tungsten light setting creates a very 'cool' image and the fluorescent setting creates a similar effect to AWB.
