WHITE BALANCE--A BALANCING ACT.

1.The human eye sees white objects as white, regardless of the light source. ON THE OTHER HAND A DIGITAL CAMERA does not. The colour of lighted off a subject also reflects the colour of the main light source.

2.The white balance setting on a digital camera , which is set on automatic by default, adjusts the brightest part of a scene so that it appears as clean white.....Auto WB does a good job under most circumstances. However there are times when white balance needs to be changed manually to match the inside or outside lighting in order to obtain more true to life colours....

3. The dcams generally have WHITE BALANCE settings as auto, daylight, cloudy, open shade, sunset, tungsten, fluorescent, custom WB 1/2/3 which u can save upto three custom white balance settings for later retrieval as well.

4. In the above photograph, the photo is showing green cast....here daylight WB setting wud have helped.