Lesson 31. White Balance for Mood
Although there’s a lot of talk about achieving accuracy in our white balance, I think the whole conversation misses a larger opportunity, specifically the ability to use color balance to achieve a greater emotional response to an image. If you do catalog work or something else that requires faithful and exact reproduction of color, it’s worth going the extra mile to do color balance as accurately as possible. But for most of us, we’re making photographs for other reasons, and accuracy can be a moving target that distracts us from the bigger issue.
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