How to use custom white balance to improve colors when shooting interiors

(Image credit: Peter Fenech)

 

One of the biggest advantages offered by digital photography is the ability to adapt the camera to changeable lighting. In analogue days, should the color balance of the ambient light change, the film type would have to be swapped to compensate, wasting the remaining frames. In the majority of cases, a white balance preset can be chosen from the camera menu, which will quickly adjust the color bias to prevent strong casts. 

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Peter Fenech

As the Editor for  Digital Photographer magazine, Peter is a specialist in camera tutorials and creative projects to help you get the most out of your camera, lens, tripod, filters, gimbal, lighting and other imaging equipment.

After cutting his teeth working in retail for camera specialists like Jessops, he has spent 11 years as a photography journalist and freelance writer – and he is a Getty Images-registered photographer, to boot.

No matter what you want to shoot, Peter can help you sharpen your skills and elevate your ability, whether it’s taking portraits, capturing landscapes, shooting architecture, creating macro and still life, photographing action… he can help you learn and improve.