What is white balance all about?
When the colours in a picture don’t look right, it’s probably down to the camera’s white balance setting. Different sources of light have different colour temperatures, measured in degrees Kelvin, with candles and tungsten light bulbs having a warm yellow glow and a blue sky giving off a cooler light. Some artificial lighting can be tinged with green or magenta.
Our eyes adjust to these changes in colour temperature – or rather, our brain does. Although we can see that a candle gives off a warm light and there’s a cool blue
