Sportdiver White balance settings?

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DerekW

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Just wondering if anyone has a white balance setting they use for the sportdiver?
I'm using it without strobes, and obviously everything is quite blue using auto.
 
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I set it to take JPEG plus DNG, then throw the JPEGs away and sort out the white balance on the DNGs manually in Lightroom. Usually, I try to get a white or grey point from someone's BCD or tank, as a starting point, then add back a suitable blue tone using the color grading.
 
I do the same as jborg - white balance depends too much on depth and light conditions, so I don't want to use a preset. I shoot raw (JPG plus DNG), trash the JPGs. My buddy has white weight pockets, so I use that to get the white balance value that I can apply to all the photos on that dive. Just grab a photo of your buddy at the start of the dive, and then whenever you change depth significantly or light conditions change. That gives me what I need in Photoshop to do the proper correction.
 
I carry a slate and shoot it whenever I need WB reference. I don't know about your phone, on DC1400 there's a "manual WB" menu option for this.
 

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