Tips from the Pro: White Balance
White balance problems often happen when you shoot indoors under “artificial” light source. Of course, you don’t generally find out about them until you open the photos later on your computer and all the shots have either a yellowish, or greenish, or blueish color cast because these types of lights emit a different temperature than the sunlight
By default, your camera is set to Auto White Balance, which works pretty well outdoors, but generally doesn’t work worth a darn indoors.
The pros use three methods to avoid white balance problems when they shoot:
(1) Use the preset options, Today’s camera are equipped with preset settings to closely or to match the settings. Some Models of camera even have fine tuning for these settings. see your camera’s manual for more info.
(2) Use the custom settings, Aside from the presets, You might notice that there are “custom” settings. What these do is to calculate either from a picture or from a 18% neutral gray card. The advantage of this is you get very close to the actual color of the settings. The downside is when there’s a change or another light source is introduced (like maybe you went outside or a spotlight is turned on) you might have to measure again.
(3) Shoot in RAW, with this option you don’t have to worry about the color but the downside is it takes more time during post processing. (depends on your digital workflow)
well, that’s it for now. Will tell you more about color temperature next time.. 
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