White balance settings for photographing Christmas lights?

12 years 3 months ago #183660 by PMurphy
What white balance setting do you have your camera set at for taking photos of Christmas lights?


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12 years 3 months ago #183668 by Hogan
The first time I photography Christmas lights was in jpeg and the white balance was so off. So ever since then I shoot christmas lights in raw and edit the white balance in post process.. I place the white balance on Auto.


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12 years 3 months ago #183673 by kimbers55
White balance is in shade. I use shade for night time shots, so if I am shooting Christmas lights on houses, I use shade. Now if I am shooting Christmas lights on the tree, that one I use Auto.


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12 years 3 months ago #183706 by McBeth Photography
I've had good luck shooting them with the white balance set on incandescent . Plus it gives the twilight sky a blue pop to it. I'll dig through my photos and try to find an example.

It is what it is.
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12 years 3 months ago #183807 by Henry Peach
I shoot raw, and adjust to taste in the raw processor. Old style tungsten lights are usually pretty warm (red), so I'd tend to go closer to tungsten wb, but it seems to me that many of the new LED lights look a lot cooler (blue), so with those I'm usually closer to daylight balance.
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12 years 3 months ago #184276 by McdonS
Did you shoot any Christmas lights? Would love to see the pictures.


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12 years 3 months ago - 12 years 3 months ago #184986 by icepics
Took some Polaroids just for fun, no white balance needed... And did some film, and digital but just used auto settings.

Sharon
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12 years 3 months ago #184992 by MajorMagee


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6 years 1 month ago #572307 by JakeTse
I just bought some LED strip lights Amazon offers and took photo of them for reediting. I think this is better. 


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