White balance

>>2883189

I don't do shit I just let my VSCO presets do it for me.

>>2883193

I don't do VSCO. Do you have a before/after it ?

>>2883189
I have an xrite checker, while its great for bringing out subtle true colors, it honestly won't matter unless you're doing product photography
I don't worry about it much anymore and just let color profiles deal with it

am i a bad person for just going wild with the colour temperature controls until i think it looks nice?

I just set the camera to cloudy and never edit the whitebalance in post.

Cloudy is love.

>>2883189
I click on various gray objects in the scene (if available) to see what the "correct" WB is, and then I pick something that actually looks good.

>>2883189

Most of the time I set my wb in camera based on Kelvin scale, but not super precise. Then later if it looks too warm or cool I'll adjust with the blue/yellow slider. For green/magenta I usually look at the skin tones and adjust based on that because it's fairly easy to see too much green or magenta in skin.

I use a piece of white paper and my camera's built in custom white balance selection mode.
Otherwise cloudy is in fact love.

>>2883189

In general? I do what this guy does: >>2883792

In a situation where the WB must be accurate? I do a custom WB on the DSLR by shooting a white piece of paper at the scene.

>>2883189
Set your camera to a preset White balance and not auto. That way you can fix one image from your set and then apply that edit to all images from the set. If you really give a shit take a custom white balance reading with a grey card on location. Not really worth it unless exact colour accuracy is essential to you