Re: White Balance Issue in Lightroom

michaeldomic · ‎Apr 10, 2019

It's amazing that such a tiny spot of light on the picture can cause such drastic changes. Thank you again for your input.

michaeldomic · ‎Apr 10, 2019

Thank you for all of the information on the matter! I understand your explanation. I think that understanding what all of the sliders do and how they do what they do is really beneficial in the workflow of any editor. I usually never set any of the sliders up to 100%, hence why I have never come across these issues before. It makes sense as to why Lightroom treats these photos the way it does. I will definitely use the information that you have provided toward my future time lapses. Thank you again!

michaeldomic · ‎Apr 09, 2019

The shots were all taken in complete manual mode, so I'm not sure why Lightroom would interpret that incorrectly. Unless there was an issue in-camera?

michaeldomic · ‎Apr 09, 2019

This is exactly what perplexes me. You would normally have to change the white balance by a huge amount to get the same color change. Perhaps it is due to the fact that the original unedited photos require drastic edits in order to make them normal, and these edits affect the white balance in some way?

michaeldomic · ‎Apr 09, 2019

Lightroom Test - Google Drive I have uploaded the DNG files as requested.

michaeldomic · ‎Apr 09, 2019

When using the dropper tool, it does in fact produce more or less the same white balance value. The picture, however, does not look entirely the same. It is a bit darker than normal and still more blue than the unaffected photo. I have also tried changing the color profile, with no difference.

michaeldomic · ‎Apr 08, 2019

DdeGannes wrote Are you expecting no light change over the hour and a half period??? I suggest you re-read my initial post so that you can understand the situation more effectively. Of course there will be a light change, but not such a change that will affect the photos in the way that I have described. I have taken time lapses for years(including ones with huge changes in light like a sunset) and have never experienced this kind of behavior from Lightroom. As I mentioned in my post, a set of photos in the middle of the time lapse suddenly shift blue, meaning that the pictures after this set return to the colors that I initially edited them to be.

michaeldomic · ‎Apr 08, 2019

The sequence lasted for about an hour and a half during the late afternoon on a sunny day. Which means that there is no light change from the sun or clouds could affect the photos. The in-camera white balance was 7300K. I'm not sure if this issue stems from the white balance, but any adjustment to the white balance slider changes the colors of the images drastically.

michaeldomic · ‎Apr 08, 2019

I just double checked, and the white balance values are the same for both pictures after I reset all of their edits. And for the change of light source in the building, I was next to the camera working for the entirety of the time lapse and did not notice any odd light sources. The unedited pictures themselves look exactly the same as all of the other ones. Thanks for your input.

michaeldomic · ‎Apr 08, 2019

Thank you for the input, Richard. Unfortunately, this problem does not stem from the Dehaze control. Lowering it to zero still yields the same results. The only reason I have it pushed up to 100 in the first place is because of a problem I encountered shooting through the glass in the building I was in. It was the only way to fix the issue.

michaeldomic · ‎Apr 08, 2019

I have come across a very strange glitch in Lightroom Classic, in which the white balance of a certain set of photos seems to have a mind of its own. I recently shot a time lapse that I have to color correct, so I chose to do so in Lightroom. I chose one photo out of 990 to color correct, and pasted the corections to each one. This is normally how I go about editing my time lapses, and have never had an issue. Every picture out of the 990 that I have taken are exactly the same colors and white balance, as I shoot in all manual mode in-camera. After I applied the corrections, however, I noticed that a set of photos in the middle are tinted extremely blue. At first, I thought that this was maybe an error that happened during the shoot, but after looking at the unedited files they are exactly the same as the unaffected ones. I tried to manually edit the white balance, but even the slightest movement of the slider makes the pictures jump from extremely blue to normal. I figured that it was just a glitch in how it pasted the effects onto each picture, so I tried changing them manually. After changing one photo and clicking away, it jumped back to blue again. No matter what I do, I cannot make the pictured normally colored at all. Has anyone heard of this issue? Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have tried editing the pictures on both my laptop, and my desktop. No differences on either machine. Attached are screenshots of the issue.

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