We test various white balance settings for infrared images and come to the obvious conclusion.
As part of our ongoing coverage of digital infrared we decided to do the obvious, so you don’t have to, of tested what is actually the best white balance setting when shooting digital infrared. The test was done with our converted for infrared 350D camera, but is also applicable to unconverted cameras.
The camera came with a custom white balance after the conversion at MaxMax.com
Auto
Daylight
Shade
Cloudy
Tungsten
Fluoro
Flash
A new custom white balance
So, it is obvious that a custom white balance gives you the most monochromatic infrared image. This was obvious before we did it, bust as I said at the start, I do these dumb things so you don’t have to. But I also believe in showing you rather than telling you, so you can choose for yourself.
Follow the instructions for your camera for setting a custom white balance. And of course if you have a camera that doesn’t let you , you can still fix it in Photoshop. But I found working with a custom white balance when shooting gives me a much better idea from the camera LCD of what the eventual result will look like. With the heavily colored images, this can be a bit harder to visualise.
Hi, I have my 30D converted also by maxmax.
I am taking my very 1st images on IR.
When setting to custom wb, my images still look red.
Should I have some sort of custom wb image in order to make them monochromatic as your last image in this post?
PLease shar on what setting should I have on my camera for this result
Thanks