Digital Photography Student

Many of you have seen beautiful atmospheric sunset photos, but were unable to fully reproduce the rich colors. Here are a few photography tips to warmer sunsets. There are several photography tricks you can use to get a warmer sunsets: 1. Manually set White Balance (WB) - The thing is that usually sunset colors use lower than average color temperatures, and your camera will try to balance it out if your white balance mode is set to auto. So try to manually set white balance to Daylight at first. If you want even warmer colors, try Cloudy and Shade white balance settings, respectively. 2. Try to underexpose a little - Assuming that you underexpose slightly, there is a good chance that your photo might have a little warmer colors in a sunset, however you will still need to fix it in photo editing tool. 3. Use warm-up filter - this one is obviously a no-brainer, but it is one of the preferred methods of the pro photographers. Get a warm filter such as Cokin Series P Warmin...

White balance (WB) is an important digital camera control addressing the problem that troubled film photographers for ages: How to handle different color temperatures of various light sources. In this digital photography tutorial we explain what is white balance, why we have different white balance presets in our digital cameras, as well as how to creatively use white balance setting to our advantage. What is white balance ? White balance (WB) is a camera setting, originally intended for color temperature correction of the captured tonal range in a photo to match the actual color temperatures as perceived by a photographer. Ok, to be honest, although technically correct this explanation even got me confused :-). Simply put, it ensures that the colors seen on scene by a photographer, are faithfully reproduced in the photo. Meaning white is white (not grey, blueish or yellow) etc. Now, the question is why and how would the latter even be possible ? You see, our eyes are amazing pho...