What is White Balance in Photography?

White Balance is the camera setting that adjusts how colors are rendered in an image. A white balance setting has a numerical value, (Kelvin temperature) however more commonly white balance presets are used which denote their ideal lighting, such as daylight, cloudy, flash, or various indoor lighting scenarios.

What is the white balance setting in a camera?

The White Balance setting you choose will change the colour balance in your pictures, making it warmer or cooler depending on how the sort of light you're shooting in affects things. Using Auto White Balance is the simple option, but your camera’s White Balance presets give you more control over colour.

How do you do a white balance?

There should be a "white balance" button or switch on your camera.

1.    If your camera has a filter wheel (or if you use add-on filters), make sure you are using the correct filter for the lighting conditions.

2.    Point your camera to a pure white subject, so that most of what you're seeing in the viewfinder is white

How to adjust white balance?

1.    Understand what white balance is and how it affects your digital camera's picture.

2.    Find the white balance control on your camera.

3.    Try your "Auto", "Daylight", "Cloud" and "Shady" white balance settings under daylight.

4.    Try using your "cloudy" and "shade" settings to get warm colours, even in daylight!

What is color temperature in photography?

Matching the sensitivity of the film to the color temperature of the light source is one way to balance color. If tungsten film is used indoors with incandescent lamps, the yellowish-orange light of the tungsten incandescent lamps will appear as white (3200 K) in the photograph.