AboutSteve Meltzer Expertise I am a professional photographer and I've been shooting for newspapers, magazines, commercial clients and artists for over 30 years.
I have shot stock photography for dozens of years and in 1977 created West Stock (Seattle, WA) which was one of the first to produce stock photo CDs and later one of the first to establish an online stock photo slaes site.
I have a new book on digital photography "PHOTOGRAPHING ARTS, CRAFTS AND COLLECTIBLES (Lark Books, 2007)which is available at Amazon.com, eBay.com and in bookstores like Barnes & Noble and Borders. I have another book, CAPTURE THE LIGHT which will be puiblished in November, 2008.
I write 20-30 feature articles and columns for regional and national publications a year.
My education includes studying with photographers like Cornell Capa, Duane Michels and Oliver Gagliani (from the Ansel Adams Center.)
Expert: Steve Meltzer Date: 4/29/2007 Subject: white balance
Question HI - I have another question regarding the white balance in regard to the insect eggs I wrote you about earlier. I was thinking of buying the product below - what do you think of it: www.rawworkflow.com/products/whibal/index.html
Answer Pete
Those products are all helpful but notice that they are really designed for complex INDOOR lighting situations. You are shooting outdoors where these sort of white balance issue should not be a problem.
Are you getting a color cast in the pictures when you see them on your camera LCD? Or on your PC monitor? Or in prints? Each is a different problem. The white balance card won't help if your monitor is color accurate or your printer isn't.
