Camera Modes

White Balance Outdoors

White Balance

        Color balance refers to rendering colors produced by cameras and other electronics, while white balance is the process of removing unrealistic color casts, so objects that are white remain white. There are seven different settings in white balance including: Auto, Incandescent, Fluorescent, Direct Sunlight, Flash, Cloudy, and Shade. Tungsten is another word for Incandescent, which is used for shooting photos indoors using bulb lighting. Tungsten “warms up” the colors in photos, making them look as if there is a bluish tint to them. Another setting for white balance is Fluorescent. It’s used for shooting outdoors and it “cools down” the colors in photos. Also, when an image has a color cast, the pictures aren’t normal.

White Balance