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Question of the Day 12-06-11, Auto or Manual WB?

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We thought it would be fun to do occasional "Questions of the day" linked to polls on our Facebook page (where the polls can reach a HUGE audience) and have some discussion back & forth.  We're keeping it up in the forums here so those not on Facebook can share in the discussion.

We're going to have separate questions for models, photographers, MUAs, etc.  Today's question is for the photographers shooting digital, do you use auto White Balance or do you set is manually?  Or do you vary it depending on what you're shooting?  Let us know which & why!

The Facebook poll on it can be found HERE, feel free to vote & please share it with your friends.  Comment on FB or here.

For those not on FB the options are (with votes so far):
I use auto WB.
5 votes
I set my WB manually.
7 votes
It depends on what I'm shooting, see my comment.
8 votes
Doesn't matter, I shoot RAW and fix it in post.
17 votes
Other, see my comment.
1 vote
I shoot film, this is not relevant to me.
0 votes

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Top Re: Question of the Day 12-06-11, Auto or Manual WB?

I don't see a way to comment under the poll question.

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Emeritus wrote:

I don't see a way to comment under the poll question.

Roger, if you go to the MI page you'll see this:
http://www.modelinsider.com/components/com_agora/img/members/4/mini_question.jpg

If you click on the title of the question, or the "3 more" box, of the Likes/Comments box at the bottom it'll open a window for the question (kind of like it does for photos) and there'll be a comments section at the bottom.

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Top Re: Question of the Day 12-06-11, Auto or Manual WB?

Oh.  Of course.  How intuitive.

Sigh.

Thanks for the information.

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Top Re: Question of the Day 12-06-11, Auto or Manual WB?

Since I'm not on FaceBook, I'll vote "Shoot 'em RAW, let ACR sort 'em out"

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GeM Photographic wrote:

Since I'm not on FaceBook, I'll vote "Shoot 'em RAW, let ACR sort 'em out"

-I thought I was the last hold out not on Facebook.... whew there are at least 2 of us.

-I shoot in RAW and use auto balance.

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I refuse to do facebook. I'll vote for shooting raw and letting the sliders do the work when the automated guesses fail me.


Is this poll mirrored on MI somewhere?

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