I'm trying to do a custom white balance using gells over the lens. Extreme color. It seems on nikon cameras if the balance is to far off of correctable it defaults to daylight. Anyone know if this is true or how to go about doing extreme white balance?
You should be able to set a custom white balance (in degrees Kelvin) in your White Balance menu. You can also set it via the WB button: just switch to the "K" icon via rear thumb wheel, and select the correct color temp via the front wheel.
Hold up a white/gray card in front of the gelled lens and use the manual white balance feature. On a D3 you'd hold down the WB button until it flashes when set to PRE. Then take the shot of the white card. That should WB for you (it will say good if it worked). You need a lot of light for this, I've found. Sometimes I have a tough time getting it to grab a successful WB on our saltwater fish tank if it isn't aiming at a bright enough spot.
Works very similar to this on the D200. Check your manual if you have something else.
I've shot a gray card with a gelled lens, but the white balance shifts back to around daylight and not to the opposite of the gell? I'm guessing that Nikon cameras just won't allow for and extreme WB correction and defaults back to daylight.
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I've shot a gray card with a gelled lens, but the white balance shifts back to around daylight and not to the opposite of the gell? I'm guessing that Nikon cameras just won't allow for and extreme WB correction and defaults back to daylight.
it is funny people blame the Camera first and not themselves. I can just about guarantee that you are not doing the steps correctly when setting the custom white balance. It is a pain to do it the frist few times esp since you obviously come from a different camera background, I surely would gripe about the "stupid" way canon does things that is for certain
I know how to do a custom white balance under "normal lighting situations" I'm talking about very extreme color changes, off the chart. If I do a WB for strobes works fine, HMI's works fine, every NORMAL light situation, works fine... but in EXTREME WB Nikon cameras seem to default back to around daylight WB anybody know anything about that.
i have shot in light incredibly warm and incredibly blue and gotten decent results. wanna tell us this secret EXTREME situation? I have shot with gelled speedlights many times and been able to balance things both in camera for the jpegs and able to tweak the raw later on in post
change it in capture nx, grey point, in camera settings, grey point. i've done it in a low light level candles in a restaurant set up that i couldn't match in camera but could later in pp.
? I'm guessing that Nikon cameras just won't allow for and extreme WB correction and defaults back to daylight.