So if the colors are too warm and you’re getting an orange or yellow color cast, you can tell the camera to cool the colors down a bit. White balance neutralizes color casts by warming up or cooling down the colors in your photo. So how does white balance work? It’s actually very simple. This will result in photos with accurate colors, where your whites appear white as opposed to yellow, orange or blue. Selecting the right white balance setting will eliminate unsightly color casts. Understanding the white balance setting on your iPhone allows you to help your camera out in certain lighting situations. While our eyes are very good at judging what’s white under different light sources, digital cameras (including our iPhones) often have difficulty in reproducing the colors accurately, resulting in orange, yellow, blue or even green color casts. Or when we’re out in the snow on an overcast day, the snow doesn’t look blue to us – it looks white because our eyes adjust for the color temperature of that particular light. So when we look at a white plate in candlelight, we see the plate as being white, not orange.
We don’t generally notice the different color temperatures of light because our eyes automatically adjust for it. Clear blue sunny skies and the light from your iPhone’s flash are fairly neutral so tend not to produce a warm or cool color cast. So the warmest colored light is candlelight, and the coolest colored light is shade. As a general rule of thumb, the color temperature of common light sources goes from warm to cool in the following order:Ĭandlelight > sunrise/sunset > tungsten/incandescent light bulbs > fluorescent light bulbs > clear sunny sky > camera flash > cloudy overcast sky > shade Whereas the cool color temperature of shade or a heavily overcast sky is approximately 8000 K. As a rough guide, the warm color temperature of candlelight is approximately 2000 K (Kelvin). Warm colored light has a low number on the Kelvin scale and cool colored light has a high number. This is the reason that when you take a photo of a snowy scene on an overcast day or under the shade of trees, the snow often appears blue in your photo.Ĭolor temperature is measured on the “Kelvin scale.” While you don’t need to know much (or anything) about the Kelvin scale in order to get the colors right in your photos, having a basic knowledge of it can help you understand the white balance settings on your iPhone. Taking a photo in outdoor shade or in cloudy conditions produces a cool blue color cast, so the colors in your photo will appear cooler (more blue) than normal. So in the photo above, the white walls appear a yellowy orange because of the color cast from the light bulb. While a color cast affects the entire photo, it’s most noticeable in the white parts of the image. Or a scene lit by a household lamp might end up with a warm yellow color cast. So how does color temperature manifest itself in your photos? Well, if you take a photo in candlelight, the resulting image might end up with an orange color cast. The color temperature of bright midday sun is fairly neutral, whereas the color temperature of sunset is much warmer. Orange is a warm color and blue is a cold color.Ĭandles emit a very warm orange colored light, and tungsten or incandescent bulbs (ordinary household light bulbs) emit a warm yellow colored light.īy contrast, the color of light in shaded areas or on an overcast day is a much cooler blue. The color of light is known as “color temperature.” When we talk about color temperature and color casts we’re referring to the relative “warmness” or “coolness” of a color. Different light sources emit different colored light, and this has an effect on how the colors appear in a photo. When an entire photo is tinted with a certain color, we call this a “color cast.” Color casts are caused by the type of light that you’re shooting in. Have you ever taken a photo with your iPhone where the color doesn’t look quite right? Maybe you’ve ended up with a photo that has an unsightly orange, yellow or blue tint? In this tutorial, you’ll discover how to use white balance to get perfect colors in your iPhone photos.
COLOR FINALE PRO SETTING WHITE BALANCE MANUAL
With the release of iOS 8, many third-party camera apps now have manual white balance settings, giving you far more control over color than ever before. But a lot of people never use it as they don’t understand its purpose. White balance is one of the most important settings on a digital camera as it helps you achieve accurate colors in your photos.
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