When generating digital photography, what is the difference between gray balancing, white balancing and profiling?
Many of the procedures required for producing quality digital photographs are fundamentally the same as those used to produce traditional film-based photography. Where the two differ is after composition, lighting and exposure are set. It is at this point that a procedure known as gray or white balancing needs to be performed. Gray or white balancing is essentially the same thing. It corrects the image for a color imbalance caused by variations in the color temperature of the light source. Aiming the camera at a white or neutral gray card in order to teach the camera what neutral is under those particular lighting conditions performs the balancing process. This task ensures that neutral areas of the image remain neutral. Theoretically, if neutral areas of an image are neutral the other areas of the image will maintain their color accuracy. Thats theoretical because there will always be color inaccuracies that will require correction or retouching, regardless of whether you use a digita
