White balance bracketing

9 years 7 months ago #402905 by Randy Shaw
I just noticed my camera has a setting for white balance bracketing.  When would you use something like this?  Especially seeing that white balance can be tweaked in Lightroom. 


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9 years 7 months ago #402919 by John Landolfi
Little point if you are shooting RAW


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9 years 7 months ago #402927 by garyrhook
That would be for the JPG folks... although difficult to understand the point with an auto WB mode.


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9 years 7 months ago #402981 by Robert Chen
As pointed out, assuming you are shooting in RAW, there isn't really any need to worry about that.  Now if you are shooting in JPG, that might be a different story. 

Nikon D300 24-70mm f2.8
70-200mm f2.8
50mm f1.4 & 50mm f1.8
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9 years 7 months ago #403044 by Joves
Perhaps to get some sort of lighting effect on the image. Say you bracketed Sunny, Cloudy, and Flash. Each has a tint of its own on the image outside of its range. Sounds more like the techs coming up with some stupid feature to justify their jobs. 


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9 years 7 months ago #403101 by Danny Carson

John Landolfi wrote: Little point if you are shooting RAW



:agree:  


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9 years 7 months ago #403119 by JeremyS

Joves wrote: Perhaps to get some sort of lighting effect on the image. Say you bracketed Sunny, Cloudy, and Flash. Each has a tint of its own on the image outside of its range. Sounds more like the techs coming up with some stupid feature to justify their jobs. 


Thats what I was thinking Joves. Perhaps if you had a situation where there was various light sources at different WB temperatures, you would do a bracket and then in post combine them to equalize the lighting. 


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9 years 7 months ago #403383 by Garbo
Seriously, have any of you bracketed your white balance on regular basis?  I just don't see the real purpose of it.  

Nikon D300: 24-70 2.8 | 70-200 2.8 VR |Sigma 150 2.8 | 50 1.4 | SB-800
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9 years 7 months ago #403402 by Joves

Takennnn wrote:

Joves wrote: Perhaps to get some sort of lighting effect on the image. Say you bracketed Sunny, Cloudy, and Flash. Each has a tint of its own on the image outside of its range. Sounds more like the techs coming up with some stupid feature to justify their jobs. 


Thats what I was thinking Joves. Perhaps if you had a situation where there was various light sources at different WB temperatures, you would do a bracket and then in post combine them to equalize the lighting. 


Which I could see working maybe in a mixed lighting venue such as sports arenas, and school gyms. Since I do not have that function I am not sure how you even set it.


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