If you go to the Develop module of Lightroom, you will notice you can adjust "Temp" there. Also, when the unit is given as an abbreviation, a space should be used before the K. Also, the word degrees is not used for kelvins. Pedantic notes: You may notice that I used both capitalized Kelvin and lower case kelvin. You can also use an Xrite Colorchecker for a custom white balance, using the warming/cooling patches to make adjustments if desired (rather than tweaking kelvin values). There is no need to memorize kelvin values when you have those presets already. I also note that most cameras have presets for the common and most important settings: tungsten, daylight, shade, etc. For some reason, the article doesn't even mention tint. Both of these may need to be adjusted for an accurate color balance. You should also notice that in addition to Temp is Tint. The number listed is on the Kelvin scale. The blackbody reflects no light, and it emits energy in shorter wavelengths as it’s being heated. Kelvin values are based on a temperature of a theoretical object known as the blackbody radiator. > In photography, Kelvin represents the temperature of light, directly correlated with the color of the burning carbon at that temperature. Then you see if individual photos need further tweaking. Makes no difference if the photos have the same wb or slightly different each. I'd ignore most of the recommendations after reading the history IF that's of interest. The blog post claims that it makes post processing faster, can't figure out how since in any case, you tweak a photo or two to find the perfect white balance and then copy-paste it to similar photos, right? Lastly, if you capture raw, the setting plays NO effect on the data. Kelvin defines a pretty large range of possible colors for one.ĭifferent cameras and even different raw converters will report differing CCT Kelvin values for the same raw/capture! Note the use of CCT and why.ĭigital cameras are not ideal tools for measuring this! I've thought about this for a few days and can't figure out how exactly is shooting in Kelvin better than AWB in digital world, if you use RAW and Lightroom. I ran across this blog post "How to Shoot in Kelvin" by Mastin Labs.