How White Balance Works A ll digital cameras have an auto white balance setting that allows the camera to detect the color of the light and balance it correctly. When you look at a white object, say the page of a book or a sheet of white paper, it appears white to you regardless of the light source. When lit by an ordinary household bulb, or a flourescent light, or outside in daylight it still looks white to your eye. But to the camera’s eye, each of these light sources is different and each produces a tint of color on the white object. And unless the camera makes some sort of adjustment for this variation in light color, a white object will not appear white in your photos. In fact, everything in your photo will have a color cast to it… it is just more obvious in the whites and near whites than in other colors. This is the function of the white balance feature in digital cameras. Why White Balance Is Important The image to the left was shot using the camera’s auto white balan...
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