I know,
everyone always says that your auto white balance isn’t any good. And partly it’s
true, it can be way off. And that’s also the beauty of it since I only
recommend shooting in auto white balance when you shoot in RAW. Because when
you shoot in RAW your in-camera white balance does not really matter, you can
change it afterwards without compromising the image quality.
Now back to
why you can shoot auto white balance: it messes things up up. For example this
photo:
With the
correct white balance it looks way warmer and greener. Which would have been
fine, but with the blue hint the photo looks better (to me). I do not think I would
have come up with this result myself. I probably would have fine tuned my white
balance to make it correct and the photo would look less alien. But with photos
like this, when your white balance is off, sometimes it gives you a tip how you
could process your photograph.
On the
other hand, when you are on an assignment and you want to do as little post
production as possible, you probably want to fine tune your white balance in
camera. But if you’re shooting for yourself and you want to “develop” your
photos anyway, you can try auto white balance.
Thanks for
reading,
Koen
