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Setting your white balance in your camera properly will save you a lot of work in post and it's very easy to do. All DSLRs have white balance settings and most people just set it at automatic and leave it at that. Even I use the auto white balance when I'm shooting in direct sunlight because well, at least on Canon cameras the white balance setting does a great job. But when shooting in arenas with artificial light and in shade or cloudy days, there are two tools used by photographers to achieve proper white balance in-camera and those are ExpoDisk, seen here that I use in arenas and anywhere there's artificial light and then for natural light, I use the PhotoVision calibration target. Now, the ExpoDisk is extremely effective for getting accurate white balance. You simply put the filter over your lens, point at the light source, take an exposure and then adjust your exposure for a mid position on your histogram and then proceed with your camera's custom white balance procedure. Now, the other way I get good white balance and proper exposure is with the PhotoVision calibration target. And these are good for use in the shade or cloudy days and in situations where you want to set your exposure manually and have good tonal range throughout your photo session. Now, all you do is set this up, take a picture of the target and you get a resulting photograph obviously of the light grays and the darks. What you're doing is paying close attention to your histogram on the back of your camera and you adjust your exposure settings until you see this basic pattern in your camera. And you set your exposure and your white balance procedure in your camera and everything should go swimmingly from that point forward. But obviously, this part of the histogram is for the whites, the middle spike here is for the grays and then of course the dark spike here is for the dark areas of the image. If you use these two tools to set your white balance and your exposures in-camera, you're going to save yourself a lot of work in post and you're going to get a really better result in your photography overall.