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A wedding by its nature can last many hours and have many different locations. For these reasons you will find yourself taking pictures where there are many different light sources that will affect the white balance of your photos. For example, you may be shooting in a church that has a lot of candles and tungsten lights, but later in the night you may find your flashes competing with the lights on the dance floor. In part one of this article, I am going to give you some tips on how to be aware of your light sources, and tips on shooting images with correct white balance in basic situations. In part two, I am going to continue these tips in more complex lighting situations.

The most important thing in maintaining a correct white balance is to shoot in RAW format. If you are used to shooting in Jpg you will already know that once your white balance is set in camera, there is no changing it after in post production. With RAW however, it doesn't matter what your white balance setting was while you shot the image because you can always change it later as you are editing the image. Another big plus to shooting in RAW is that most software for editing RAW include a white balance tool. With this tool it is easy to adjust the white balance of your photos. It is as easy as just clicking on your white balance tool, and then finding something white in your photo to click on. Since it is a wedding, the bride will most likely be wearing a white dress for you to click on. Even if she isn't, most of the men will have on white dress shirts. This tool is so versatile that you can click on white napkins on the tables in the background or even the whites of the eyes of your subjects. This tool isn't the magic bullet for correct white balance in all situations though. If there are competing sources of light in your photo this tool will not work. An example would be light coming from a tungsten light source, and your flash as fill light.

Plan B is be aware of all your light sources. Sunlight is probably the easiest source of light for you to be aware of, but you also need to be aware of other sources of light like tungsten and fluorescent light. Moreover, you need to be sure there are not competing sources of light if possible. If your main light source is different from you flash, you will need to put a colored gel on the flash to match the main light.

In practice this is easier than it sounds. Your flash, without gels, is calibrated to match the color temperature of normal daylight. This means you will not need any type of gel on your flash if you are using it as fill light outside during regular daylight hours, that is, not sunrise or sunset. This is also true if you are taking interior shots where your main source of light is window light. This is a common scenario to find yourself in when you are taking pictures of the bride getting ready. This is because it is early on in the day and the natural window light is probably your best source of light. If you find that there are competing sources of light like little lamps however, you may need to switch them off, as they will not match your main light, nor your flash.

With these techniques, you should be able to start identifying the various sources of light you might find at a wedding. In the next part of this article, I will talk about maintaining proper white balance in more complicated settings.