WB – White Balance is an art unknown to many beginning and amateur photographers. Now a days digital cameras are advanced enough to make “best guess estimate” on what kind of light is being captured and adjust the picture accordingly. Below is an example of the “best guess estimate” taken of my wife at a supermarket yesterday
As you can see, she’s holding a set of grey cards, you can also tell the image has a yellow tint. These cards are used as reference points to set the correct WB during post processing (can also be set as “Custom WB” in the camera itself). The resulting image is now properly white balanced.
In Adobe Lightroom, use the “White Balance Selector” tool to pick a neutral shade (a.k.a the grey card).
Once the ‘calibration image’ is captured for a given light environment, you can use it to color correct the remaining images in that batch.
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