White Balance Sheet

hi guys,
this thread is addressing/asking you pro-product photographers...
to allow a perfect white balance, i have shot photos with a page having white, grey and black references on it in the image, then cropping it. however, i have lost the page and i have no idea where i have that file. instead of creating a new one - do you guys have such a document handy to share (pdf or so) so it can be printed and be placed in the photo at the next shooting?
or do you use other/pre-produced reference cards?
in case you don't have such a document - would anybody be interested if i create one and share it here? let me know.

You are raising a thorny problem. First if you are
shooting in a place where you know in advance there
will be no neutrals then try to make a shot at the
beginning with a white paper business card or some
other neutral. The White Balance won't change so much
from shot to shot.
You need to find something in the image that you
'know' to be nutral. About L level 80 or higer works
best for me but I have seen others in this forum
reccomend more medium grays. but not so high that one
of the channels is clippiing at 255.
If there are no neutrals and also no skin tones in
the images your WB can be pretty subjective (far from
the actual scene) and it will look OK. Aperture has
the auto adjust RGB button that will stretch the
three histograms seperately to fill the full tonal
range. I think that it was Andrew Rodney who
published that as the 90% rule (it works 90% of the
time).
For some reason adjusting the three histograms in
Aperture doesn't work as well for me as it does in
Photoshop when I use the Auto Levels - separate
command. But adjusting the R, G, and B channels
manually using the Levels adjust still gives a good
result.
I find that there are really very few images with no
neutrals for the WB clicker to latch onto, less than
5% for my shooting.
Thanks for taking the time to explain.
What does “About L level 80” refer to? Is this on the RGB readout?

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