White Balance

White Balance is an adjustment to the temperature of light to make the image look more natural. If the white balance is not set correctly your images will have a yellow or blue tint to them. The light is measured by degrees of Kelvin, our eyes automatically adapt to the different lighting but digital cameras can not. For example if you look at a white piece of paper it will appear white in every lighting but on camera it will look blue or yellow. If you're using the fluorescent white balance you will usually end up with a yellow tint to your picture. If you use the tungsten white balance you will receive a blue tint on your picture. In this assignment the highest degree of Kelvin I used was 7,000 and the lowest I used was 3,200 degrees. One of the main things I learned from this assignment is that if you are in the shade and you are taking a picture of someone in the sunlight you would use the white balance appropriate for the object you are taking a picture of so in this case I would use the Daylight setting.