By adjusting your digital camera's white balance, the colours in your digital photos will appear more natural.
Step 2: Find the white balance setting
Step 3: Using Preset modes
Step 5: Settings for sunsets
In this quick tutorial, you will learn how to use the white balance in your digital camera.
We recommend the following hardware:
- A digital camera with a white balance setting
- Your camera's manual
Step 1: Understand different types of light
Depending on the situation, different types of light affects the colour of your photos. Indoor shots often have an orange/pink cast due to the type of light produced by light bulbs. And photos taken on cloudy days often have a bluish tint.
Step 2: Find the white balance setting
Your camera's white balance feature attempts to correct photo colours by removing the colour cast by external light sources. Usually it's set to Auto (or AWB) but you can override this setting to improve your colour photos.
On a sunny day, set the white balance to Sunny, Day Light or the equivalent on your camera. If the image looks too blue on the camera's LCD display, try the Cloudy setting.
Step 4: Eliminate bluish tones
On a cloudy day, use the Cloudy setting to adjust the image to remove the cooler blue tone and to give the image a warmer pink tone.
In general, you do not want to correct the colour of the light when photographing sunsets. Select the daylight setting in your white balance since this setting makes the least amount of colour correction.
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