Better Available Light Digital Photography : How to Make the Most of Your Night and Low-light Shots

White balance techniques 89

The fi nal image is a combination
of applying iCorrect EditLab Pro
to correct color and some burning
and dodging in the digital dark-
room to give the image a little
snap! © 2005 Joe Farace.

working under these conditions. The Shade White Balance

setting accomplishes the same thing by warming up images

“made in the shade.”

Cloudy: approximately 6000 K

This setting warms up images, too, but not as much as the

Shade setting does. In fact, you might prefer to use the Cloudy

setting when making portraits in the shade, because the effect

is slightly weaker. It’s also a good White Balance setting to

try for sunsets in order to punch up warm tones. This is

where a camera’s LCD preview screen exploits the digital advan-

tage by letting you preview all of these kinds of effects as you

experiment.