Help with D7200 Custom White Balance

[-Logzor]

Hi Everyone. I wondering if anyone can help with setting custom light balance on my Nikon D7200.

It works fine for most things and quickly create a custom profile. Say in a room with incandescent lighting or whatever it might be. With the aquarium it wont cooperate and wont take the data. Is it too blue I guess? I stuck a piece of a white bucket in the aquarium to capture the profile. Tried doing it 10 different ways. Is it impossible due to the blue?

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Hi Everyone. I wondering if anyone can help with setting custom light balance on my Nikon D7200.

It works fine for most things and quickly create a custom profile. Say in a room with incandescent lighting or whatever it might be. With the aquarium it wont cooperate and wont take the data. Is it too blue I guess? I stuck a piece of a white bucket in the aquarium to capture the profile. Tried doing it 10 different ways. Is it impossible due to the blue?

Ill start with, all blue is not a color or balance that you can set for. its a narrow band frequency. so even manually if you set the wb to the highest it wont work well. you can use an orange filter to cut frequency and allow the other colors that are reflected (reds green)to saturate the sensor more. a quick fix is to also try stopping down(decreasing the exposure)


I believe your setting a custom WB balance. the difficulty in doing so in general photography is if you take a picture of a face under fluorescents, then take a wide shot of the room with the same face, the colors will or can be be slightly different.
not a fan of this for that reason. but if your using a white or grey card in the tank, use an aperture priority mode and decrease the exposure(+/_) and see if that helps.

I would honestly try setting the WB manually to the highest possible setting. and see if its still too blue. 10,000 kelvin is usually the highest and so many are running in the 16 to 20k + range. but the camera does have limiters set and algorithms to balance colors and help us cheat to get good colors. thas hoe phone camera do it.

 

[Mark75]

I was never able to set the white balance that way with my D3300. I spent a lot of time trying and gave up out of frustration and used a manual white balance. I have two theories on why it will not work; 1.) the amount of blue is more than the camera can adjust for. 2.) the different colored LED's along with the water movement confused the camera.

 

[-Logzor]

Thanks guys, I was hopeful there was a solution but it sounds like just shooting in RAW is probably the best route to go! That makes sense regarding the all blue. It's probably impossible for the camera to adjust for.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Thanks guys, I was hopeful there was a solution but it sounds like just shooting in RAW is probably the best route to go! That makes sense regarding the all blue. It's probably impossible for the camera to adjust for.

raw is just a broader color space, or the latitude available to manipulate the color once its been captured. Once you find the closest match on your camera, then manipulate from there.

full blue is pretty impossible.