White Balance Question

[Uter [TeamD]]

I'm going to be taking some shots at the hockey game tonight with a friend's
camera. What sort of lighting do they use in a sports arena? What white
balance setting should I use?

Thanks :-)

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[Bob Gross]

Mark. Nobody here knows. When you get to the sports arena, look for
yourself. Chances are, the lights look like giant household light bulbs. In
that case, use a Tungsten setting. It is possible that they are something
different, like mercury vapor (cool) or sodium vapor (warm orange) or
something fluorescent (very cool).

If you can't determine it on your own, set for Tungsten and see how that
works out.

I'm trying to get used to the concept of Automatic White Balance (on my
camera). What does it do when I have put on a color filter (e.g. 1A). Is it
going to auto-balance to "fight" the color offset by the filter?

---Bob Gross---

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[Jerry Thomas]

Bring along a white card or a 18% gray card. Then when you get there,
you can use the custom balance mode to adjust your WB exactly to the
conditions.

Uter [TeamD] wrote:
What white balance setting should I use?

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[Uter [TeamD]]

> Bring along a white card or a 18% gray card. Then when you get there,
> you can use the custom balance mode to adjust your WB exactly to the
> conditions.

Now that's a darn good idea. Thanks.

[warren]

In article <jccB9.209245$r7.36...@twister.tampabay.rr.com>, Uter
[TeamD] <markl...@hotmail.com> wrote:

> > Bring along a white card or a 18% gray card. Then when you get there,
> > you can use the custom balance mode to adjust your WB exactly to the
> > conditions.
>
> Now that's a darn good idea. Thanks.

Now days alot of arenas are using HID/HMI/Mecury Halide lights that aer
typically near daylight. You may do well with the "outdoor" setting. A
white card will work if you can check it in the same light as your
(faraway) subject. Isn't the ice "white" too?

-WG

[Cyber Biker]

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>
> I'm trying to get used to the concept of Automatic White Balance (on my
> camera). What does it do when I have put on a color filter (e.g. 1A). Is
it
> going to auto-balance to "fight" the color offset by the filter?
>
> ---Bob Gross---

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I am using a D60 and had the same question. Wile taking some pictures of
fall folliage, I used, some of the time, a Tiffen Enhancing filter. The
camera did not seem to notice, and I got some great shots with it. Taking
pictures with and without the filter suggested the expected filter effect.

Have not tried the same thing with a warming filter yet.

Dave.

[Bob Dietz]

Jerry Thomas wrote:
> Bring along a white card or a 18% gray card. Then when you get there,
> you can use the custom balance mode to adjust your WB exactly to the
> conditions.
>
> Uter [TeamD] wrote:
> What white balance setting should I use?
>
>

My lowly Fuji 2400z does not have a manual WB setting, but I've often
wondered if it wouldn't be worth while to experiment with using
some pastel paper in place of a gray card in order to emphasize certain
colors. eg. Would pale pink paper as the manual WB source cause an emphasize
of blues and greens?

Has anybody experimented with this?

Bob

[Uter [TeamD]]

> Now days alot of arenas are using HID/HMI/Mecury Halide lights that aer
> typically near daylight. You may do well with the "outdoor" setting. A
> white card will work if you can check it in the same light as your
> (faraway) subject. Isn't the ice "white" too?

Ice seems to be blueish.

For anyone interested, you can find tonight's hockey pictures at my photos
site below (see sig) under "BoltsVsSharks", and an older set behind the new
net under "BoltsVsCaps".

_Sports
|_Hockey
|_BoltsVsSharks
|_BoltsVsCaps

I took some pictures with "auto" white balance, some with wb off the guy's
shirt in front of me, some on indoor lighting, some on florescent. They
mostly came out a little redish yellow, but not bad and certainly nothing a
little leveling couldn't fix. I took over 200 shots. The best 10 or 15 are
at my site.