In another very short - just over a minute - ‘Photography Thursday’ Video Corner today, Ken Skulte walks us through how he uses the ExpoDisc to obtain consistant white balance (the camera he is using is the Canon 1D Mark II, but the ExpoDisc works with most dSLRs).

Today’s ‘Photography Thursday’ Video Corner by Tamron looks at what white balance does, and how much your photo can change based soley on what white balance preset you use.

Of all of the prizes from the 2008 Photograph of the Year contest, I’ve received the most positive feedback on the ColorRight prizes. If you’re the type of photographer that shoots in raw and fixes white balance in post production, picking up a ColorRight of your own may be a good idea. With light changing all the time, it’s hard to get the right color balance in camera, and with evolution of digital photography, we can tweak the temperature of our photographs more than even before.

But why spend all that time playing around in post processing when you can get it right “in-camera”? ColorRight is a lens filter-like tool that can help you do just that. Basically, you place it over the end of your dSLR and take a sample photo. This gives your camera an accurate reading of the temperature of the light. Once your camera knows what the lighting conditions are, you’ll have an accurate white balance for the rest of your photographs (or at least until the lighting changes, when all you have to do is switch to manual focus, change your camera settings to “custom white balance,” and take another sample photo).

Instead of an article this week, Amy has put together a video on “White Balance Basics.” Check it out an let Amy and I know what you think in the comments.