Grey card in studio

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Hi - I'm going to use a grey card today for a studio portrait shoot and I'm not sure what to set my white balance to when I take the test shot. I want to use the grey card image for post production.

I'm sure there's a very obvious answer to this - thanks for your help.

Graeme.
 
jazzyg said:
Hi - I'm going to use a grey card today for a studio portrait shoot and I'm not sure what to set my white balance to when I take the test shot. I want to use the grey card image for post production.

I'm sure there's a very obvious answer to this - thanks for your help.

Graeme.
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The colour balance will depend on the lights you use. Set to daylight or flash (that is, if you use flash), but shoot in raw. Then use the white balance colour picker tool on the grey card to adjust the colour balance precisely in your raw converter.
 
As above, or take a picture of the grey card using the lighting you are going to use, then go to camera menu colour balance. Use custom, use photo just taken. This will set the camera to correct balance until lighting changes. Can then take another test or revert to nomal settings.
 
Thanks Cistron - appreciate your help.
 
Simon photo said:
Why not just set a custom white balance for the lights you are using?
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quicker just to assume they're 5600K, set it to 'flash' or manual WB.

Then in lightroom/capture, colour pick the initial grey card shot as neutral, then sync across to all of the photos. Means that the grey card can more easily be in the exact same place as the model, and doesn't need to fill the frame, and saves messing with camera settings.
 
itsdavedotnet said:
quicker just to assume they're 5600K, set it to 'flash' or manual WB.

Then in lightroom/capture, colour pick the initial grey card shot as neutral, then sync across to all of the photos. Means that the grey card can more easily be in the exact same place as the model, and doesn't need to fill the frame, and saves messing with camera settings.
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Quicker if you have one touch custom white balance setting ;)
 
itsdavedotnet said:
quicker just to assume they're 5600K, set it to 'flash' or manual WB.

Then in lightroom/capture, colour pick the initial grey card shot as neutral, then sync across to all of the photos. Means that the grey card can more easily be in the exact same place as the model, and doesn't need to fill the frame, and saves messing with camera settings.
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That's how I do it in Capture One Pro with a Colorchecker Passport, first shot is the sample for the WB, subsequent shots get it copied across before I start proper editing.
 
markmullen said:
That's how I do it in Capture One Pro with a Colorchecker Passport, first shot is the sample for the WB, subsequent shots get it copied across before I start proper editing.
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the best way of shooting a colour managed workflow :)
 
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