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Balance
Usage of colours, light and dark masses, or large and small objects in a picture to create agreement and stability.
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Balance in photographic composition is a matter of making pictures look harmonious. Each element in a picture has a certain amount of value in respect to all the other elements.

White Balance
If you shoot with a film camera and want to achieve color balance in a daylight setting, you would use daylight film to match the color temperature of daylight.

Auto White Balance
With auto white balance, the camera attempts to determine the color temperature of the light and automatically adjust for that color temperature. Many people just leave the camera set to auto white balance all the time.

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Techniques Glossary White balance
Artificial light appears in a variety of forms - tungsten and fluorescent being two of the most widely used.

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When I first started in the hobby of photography, I took lots of photographs with a small 110 compact camera. Unfortunately my indoor photographs often had a yellow or bluish tint.

White Balance
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Fluorescent light has a variety of color temperatures depending on its type. Some bulbs are daylight balanced.

White balance
Every time a digital camera takes a picture
it needs to establish the white point as the basis from which the percentage of each color is derived.

White Balance - What is it and why does it matter?
Your eyes are remarkably adaptable. They can adjust to a wide variety of lighting conditions.

White Balance is an adjustment in electronic and film imaging that corrects for the colour balance of the lighting - so that white objects appear white, rather than coloured (for example) yellow when lit by tungsten filament lights, ...

White balance refers to the color tint of a photograph. Film and digital sensors are calibrated for certain types of light. Whenever an image is shot under different light conditions (or color temperature), white does not appear white.

White Balance
Normally our eyes compensate for lighting conditions with different color temperatures. A digital camera needs to find a reference point which represents white. It will then calculate all the other colors based on this white point.

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White Balance is an aspect of photography that many digital camera owners don't understand or use - but it's something well worth learning about as it can have a real impact upon the shots you take.

Color balance is also related to color constancy. Algorithms and techniques used to attain color constancy are frequently used for color balancing, as well. Color constancy is, in turn, related to chromatic adaptation.

Yet white balance isn't a new concept at all. Throughout the day, the color of daylight changes from the warm glow of sunrise, through the cooler colors of midday shade, then back to the golden tones of glorious sunset.

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Auto White Balance
Since the days of the Kodak Brownie cameras, manufacturers have tried to automate everything for us. Hence, today's digital cameras also all sport an Auto White Balance (AWB) function.

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White Balance Usually the auto white balance function of a video camera operates sufficiently in the automatic position; however, there are situations when the automatic light balance may not work correctly.

Color balance indoors under incandescent lighting looked pretty good with both the Incandescent and Manual white balance settings.

White balance is a name given to a system of colour correction to deal with differing lighting conditions.

Balance
Balance is the concept of visual equilibrium, and relates to our physical sense of balance. It is a reconciliation of opposing forces in a composition that results in visual stability.

Balanced fill-flash operation : A flash photography technique that balances flash illumination with the scene's ambient light.

Balanced TTL Flash Metering
Balanced flash metering is the current the state of the art. Modern SLRs fire a pre-flash when you press the shutter-release button, right before actual exposure starts. Usually you'll not even notice this pre-flash.

Balance
The distribution of visual elements in a photograph. Symmetrical balance distributes visual elements evenly in an image. Asymmetrical balance is found when visual elements are not evenly distributed in an image.
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Balanced Fill Flash
When a modern camera with a multi-segment exposure meter (Matrix) is used with a dedicated flashgun the correct exposure can be obtained for both the subject and background using 'Automatic Balanced Fill Flash'.

Balance and arrangement.
a) Objects should in some way relate to each other. This makes for unity, both visual and mental.
b) Balance principle shape by another smaller less intrusive one.

BALANCE - Compositional harmony of a scene based on the placement of elements of different sizes, shapes and colors.
BARE BULB - Electronic flash unit used without a reflector or diffuser.

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Pretty cool - I tried the above idea using a colour panarama I thought was pretty good before & now it's rahter impressive. Thanks
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balance
(1) a device for weighing material in the preparation of processing compounds and solutions; (2) harmony and equilibrium of graphic elements due to placement.

Balance - placement of colors, light and dark masses, or large and small objects in a picture to create harmony and equilibrium.

Auto balance Auto balance is a system that detects errors in color balance in black and white areas of the picture, and automatically adjusts the black and white levels of both the read and blue signals as needed for correction.

Gray balance
The balance between CMY colourants required to produced neutral grays without a colour cast.

Auto balance
A system for detecting errors in colour balance in white and black areas of the picture and automatically adjusting the white and black levels of both the red and blue signals as needed for correction.

Gray Balance: In four-color process printing, proper proportions of the three-process colors (yellow, magenta and cyan) create the appearance of neutral gray with no apparent hue.

White Balance
Most video systems use a "white balance" to aid in overcoming colour problems created by adverse lighting conditions.

White Balance: This is the ability of the camera to adjust the color balance of a picture to compensate for the ambient lighting. Adjusts the image sensor for the type of light under which you are photographing. Can be automatic or manual.

Color balance:
When all colors are in correct visual harmony - a subjective interpretation. To a color technician, color balance is achieved when the color emulsion can accurately record a neutral gray.

Color Balance
Digital cameras have some really great white balance algorithms that can work wonders when dealing with various light sources.

Color Balance Setting or actual representation of colors of a scene. Color films are made to be exposed by light of a certain color quality such as daylight or tungsten.

White balance
When a camera has been calibrated to correctly display white, then the camera is white balanced. Once it is calibrated for white, other colors should display properly.
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White balance is the process of removing unrealistic color casts, so that objects which appear white in person are rendered white in your photo.

Color Balance How a color film reproduces the colors of a scene. Color films are made to be exposed by light of a certain color quality such as daylight or tungsten.

White Balance
In ACR, the first step is white balance with the dropper. Most images from the events I photograph, unless flash was used, require white balancing.

Color balance. The overall accuracy with which the colors in a photograph match or are capable of matching those in the original scene.

White Balance: Daylight/5500K (to match the color temperature of the StarFlash strobes)
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Color Balance
The accuracy with which the colors in the image match those in the original scene.
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color balance:
Means of compensating for too much of one color in a photo by adding that color's opposite; for example, if a photo has too much blue, adding a larger percentage of yellow would help achieve a balance.
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white balance
Digital cameras usually enable the user to adjust for ambient light conditions using a white balance feature. Most cameras have an automatic white balance mode for daylight, cloudy, tungsten or fluorescent lighting.
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White balance.
In digital photography, calibration of the white point.
As noted in the section on colour temperature, the assumed white point can vary depending on the light conditions - the concept of "white" is not an absolute thing.

White balance: Enables digital cameras to take images without a 'colour cast', caused either by the level of brightness or artificial lighting. Usually automatic, but in many cameras can be over-ridden and set manually or by using 'pre-sets'.

White Balance A devices ability to see a white subject as white by first adjusting the balance to suit the colour of the ambient light around the subject.

Color Balance - The accuracy with which the colors captured in the image match the original scene.

White balance:
Adjustment in digital cameras for the color to give as true as possible a white and correcting all the other colors.
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White balance - Digital cameras have the ability to adjust the color based on the lighting situation where they are used. This is known as white balance.

White Balance
A camera system which adjusts the colour balance of the image to compensate for non-white light, e.g. fluorescent light, sunsets etc..
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White Balance: A function on the camera to compensate for different colors of light being emitted by different light sources. Click here to view all of our digital camera selection.
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