WHITE BALANCE for OUTDOOR SHOOTING

I shoot all my outdoor images on a daylight white balance. Even when the sky is cloudy and the colors in pictures tend to go a bit bluish, I don’t use cloudy WB to correct for this. I happen to like cool colors like you see here with the megalithic head at the summit of Mt. Nemrut in Turkey. However, if I choose to warm them up later, I can do that as long as I shoot in RAW mode. This is one huge advantage to using RAW – you can change the color temperature in post-processing. By using the ‘temperature’ slider in ACR (Adobe Camera Raw), you can easily change the white balance. If you shoot in jpeg mode, you can alter the color in Photoshop but it won’t look as good as if you had originalLY captured the image in RAW.