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<blockquote data-quote="WayneF" data-source="post: 473289" data-attributes="member: 12496">I always use a white card for anything serious, like maybe portraits that I want to be correct, but I normally don't bother for routine snapshots, less important stuff.&nbsp; Not that it does not get attention then, WB always needs attention, but it is harder to explain.&nbsp; Since I shoot raw, I do set Auto WB (rather than to bother matching it better), so that the image on the camera rear LCD and the histogram are halfway right.&nbsp; But Auto is only halfway right, and then I work on it in Adobe raw (I don't ever actually use the Auto WB).&nbsp; Sunshine is not hard about WB, and usually regular Daylight or Cloudy is usually fairly close enough (less so flash), at least for starters.&nbsp; For indoor ambient or other tricky stuff, there are tricks, but it becomes easy soon.&nbsp; In lieu of the white card (which is always better), there are often white &quot;things&quot; in the scene, paper or signs or dishes or tablecloths or shirts or church steeples, naturally there that will get it near right. They do vary of course, but things intended pure white, not off white.&nbsp;&nbsp; And for those that don't have anything white, often the same session and lighting has a picture that does, which can be used for all in the same light.Some examples at <a href="http://www.scantips.com/lights/whitebalance.html" target="_blank">Easy White Balance Correction, with or without Raw</a>I would have to advise that we really don't even realize the white balance is off, until we see it made right.&nbsp; We learn to&nbsp; seriously appreciate correct white balance.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="WayneF, post: 473289, member: 12496"] I always use a white card for anything serious, like maybe portraits that I want to be correct, but I normally don't bother for routine snapshots, less important stuff. Not that it does not get attention then, WB always needs attention, but it is harder to explain. Since I shoot raw, I do set Auto WB (rather than to bother matching it better), so that the image on the camera rear LCD and the histogram are halfway right. But Auto is only halfway right, and then I work on it in Adobe raw (I don't ever actually use the Auto WB). Sunshine is not hard about WB, and usually regular Daylight or Cloudy is usually fairly close enough (less so flash), at least for starters. For indoor ambient or other tricky stuff, there are tricks, but it becomes easy soon. In lieu of the white card (which is always better), there are often white "things" in the scene, paper or signs or dishes or tablecloths or shirts or church steeples, naturally there that will get it near right. They do vary of course, but things intended pure white, not off white. And for those that don't have anything white, often the same session and lighting has a picture that does, which can be used for all in the same light. Some examples at [url=http://www.scantips.com/lights/whitebalance.html]Easy White Balance Correction, with or without Raw[/url] I would have to advise that we really don't even realize the white balance is off, until we see it made right. We learn to seriously appreciate correct white balance. [/QUOTE]

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