An aspect of photography, is white balance. It can have a big impact of the shots you take as a photographer. White balance is adjusted to get the most accurate colors in your image. Photos you take might come out with a little bit of blue or yellow. They look good to the naked eye, but they can have work done to them. Different source of light causes this. We don’t notice the change of temperature because the eye usually adjusts to the change. The reason you see the temperature change on the cameras is because the camera isn’t smart enough to adjusts to the change. Cameras have different ways to adjust the white balance, many digital cameras have automatic and semi-automatic modes to help you make the adjustments. A lot of cameras have the manual adjustment.

White Balance settings you’ll find on cameras:

• Auto – this is where the camera makes a best guess on a shot by shot basis. You’ll find it works in many situations but it’s worth venturing out of it for trickier lighting.
• Tungsten – this mode is usually symbolized with a little bulb and is for shooting indoors, especially under tungsten (incandescent) lighting (such as bulb lighting). It generally cools down the colors in photos.
• Fluorescent – this compensates for the ‘cool’ light of fluorescent light and will warm up your shots.
• Daylight/Sunny – not all cameras have this setting because it sets things as fairly ‘normal’ white balance settings.
• Cloudy – this setting generally warms things up a touch more than ‘daylight’ mode.
• Flash – the flash of a camera can be quite a cool light so in Flash WB mode you’ll find it warms up your shots a touch.
• Shade – the light in shade is generally cooler (bluer) than shooting in direct sunlight so this mode will warm things up a little.