How to Work with a Gray Card

128 128 128. That’s the color code for neutral gray. And neutral gray is extremely important for digital photography. Not only because it’s easy to “hide” (to make it neutral, translucent), but also because you can us this color to easily balance all the other colors in a picture… or even in other pictures.

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AuthorMajo Elias

I’ve been taking pictures since 2004. When I was starting out, I photographed almost everything. Later my style solidified and I began photographing people almost exclusively. At the moment my main genres are fashion and advertising.

Comments (3)

  1. A very illuminating article, indeed.

  2. A better explanation of the last picture here would be great… It is as if something (text) is missing

    1. The “Before” picture is a photo taken by the camera, “After” picture is the photo after edits – well white-balanced picture. You can see the color diference when using the slider.
      But thank you for the feedback, there could be a better explanation. We will add it to the article.

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