When shooting RAW, does the white balance setting make any difference, or does the setting just come along for the ride in the RAW file as a suggested value that software will use when opening the file? That sounds like a stupid question even to me, but I’d appreciate a serious answer.
During the "Golden Hour" today, during my last extra hour of sunlight for the year, I went out on the deck and on down to my back yard and made some pictures of the fall leaves in the nice light. I left on AWB. Of course the camera chose a low color temperature setting to try to make the light look white, and thus negated much of the time of day look.
In ACR I tried to set a white balance to approximate the look I saw when I shot the pictures. Before I tried using the sliders, I looked at the daylight and flash settings, and they came closest to restoring the natural look. Would there be any advantage to setting daylight WB in the camera in the first place? Or will I just wind up with the same look I would get with ACR with the sliders on the same settings whatever the WB was set on?
Do any of you use special techniques to try to maintain the look of the ambient lighting?
During the "Golden Hour" today, during my last extra hour of sunlight for the year, I went out on the deck and on down to my back yard and made some pictures of the fall leaves in the nice light. I left on AWB. Of course the camera chose a low color temperature setting to try to make the light look white, and thus negated much of the time of day look.
In ACR I tried to set a white balance to approximate the look I saw when I shot the pictures. Before I tried using the sliders, I looked at the daylight and flash settings, and they came closest to restoring the natural look. Would there be any advantage to setting daylight WB in the camera in the first place? Or will I just wind up with the same look I would get with ACR with the sliders on the same settings whatever the WB was set on?
Do any of you use special techniques to try to maintain the look of the ambient lighting?