Soil colour will be the death of me...

[genes]

Hi guys, i was shooting at biotope and once again, my worst nightmare, the ADA africana soil is there challenging me. I tried to do a manual white balance using a laminated white card but after using this, the picture became even more yellowish! In the end, shot with auto-white balance...

Some stupid question, the water in the tank is not brown, hence doing a white balance is meaningless right?

Then, how do you defeat irritating gravel colours while shooting?

picture shot with Auto white balance

[ranmasatome]

expo disc the soil loh....haha..

[CK Yeo]

Bring home and shoot.

How come custom WB can't get rid of the colour cast? Last resort is to dial away the cast in camera RAW.

ck

[properfool]

1.Shoot in raw

2. You didn't white balance with card in the tank...how to counter the effects of tank light & water?

[genes]

Bring home and shoot.

How come custom WB can't get rid of the colour cast? Last resort is to dial away the cast in camera RAW.

ck

yeah, unless i did it the wrong way...tried to custom wb twice, and twice picture turned out even more yellowish...

basically, the card sinks and i lay it about 60degrees and shot at it with the flashes on top.