White Balance is an aspect of photography that many digital camera owners don’t understand or use. You might have noticed when examining shots after taking them that at times images can come out with an orange, blue, yellow etc look to them. The reason for this is that images different sources of light have a different color temperature to them. The range in different temperatures ranges from the very cool light of blue sky through to the very warm light of a candle. We don’t generally notice this difference in temperature because our eyes adjust automatically for it. So unless the temperature of the light is very extreme a white sheet of paper will generally look white to us. However a digital camera doesn’t have the smarts to make these adjustments automatically and sometimes will need us to tell it how to treat different light. In most cases you can get a pretty accurate result using preset white balance modes.