Setting up the camera for welding glass

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I recently bought some welding glass, and was wondering if there was a good guide to setting the camera up to use it, I think i need to adjust the white balance to lessen the green tinge

A couple of test shots in the office came out ok, (in a testing sort of way) but were green, but looked ok in B&W and I would like to do long exposures in colour if its possible

Any help, pointer to guides would be much appreciated:thumbs:
 
i am shooting RAW, I Have just had a look at the white balance tool and it did get it back to near white:thumbs:

I have read something in the past about the custom balance in the camera and i know how to set the different setting, there is a PRE setting and i can use it to use a photo taken with the filter on to set the white balance,. but doing this, it was still green:shrug:
 
There is a difference between a colour cast due to white balance and one due to a coloured filter.
If it is due to white balance the full colour info is there but is biased towards one part of the spectrum.
If it is due to a filter you must remember the image was taken with green light and the software is now guessing how to fix it whilst the camera can only see green. Your computer software is more powerful than that in your camera.
Can you get a more colour neutral welding glass? I know nothing about welding....
 
I dont think you can get it in different colour, the white balance in PS worked ok, so I think I'll see how that goes and if I like daytime long exposure go and buy the BIg Stopper
 
Shoot raw and process the white balance later. The range of available white balance adjustment available in-camera is less than that available with software. Once you've corrected a few you can easily work out a basic preset in Lightroom/PS that will get you 80% of the way there in an instant.

With care you can get a very good colour image using welding glass, but expect colours to be rather soft and pastel rather than vibrant. There is also an inherent bias in the way colours are exposed and you'll need to go beyond simple white balance and tint corrections and also make adjustments to individual colour channels.
 
Cheers, bit of trial and error in it for me and my novice PS skills, but it's fun trying:)
 
A Managed to get some test photos tonight, using a way I found on the net to set the cameras white balance by taking an exposure of a white sheet of paper, then use that photo to set the PRE white balance on the camera, means in that even with the filter in place I get near normal colours, then played about with setting and exposures in the garden to work out what's needed

Need to find a subject to do a tester shoot now
 
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