John M Posted June 3, 2012 Share Posted June 3, 2012 Is it better to use a pure white card or 18% gray card for white balance? Or is the Gray card used for exposure values only? My 2nd question is in regards to a sunset. Is it best not to white balance in order to preserve the natural orange colour for that time of day? I'm going to be using a T2i. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member David Mullen ASC Posted June 3, 2012 Premium Member Share Posted June 3, 2012 Doesn't matter which is used if the grey card or white card is neutral -- the reason why a grey card sometimes is better is just that you can't have any color channels that are clipped when you do a white balance so often you have to stop down for the white card. I would just use a daylight preset color balance so that the fading sunset colors are not corrected out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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