Cameras don’t take pictures, people take pictures. Cameras simply capture and interpret light, nothing more, nothing less. Your camera has controls that affect how that light is captured and then what is done with that information in order to help it approximate the picture you wanted to take. Both are important in getting the picture you were looking for out of your camera.

Of the settings that affect that conversion process one of the most important is a setting called White Balance (WB). Understanding how this control works is the difference between the picture on the left and the picture on the right, because that's all that changed between the two.

Cameras don’t take pictures, people take pictures. Cameras simply capture and interpret light, nothing more, nothing less. Your camera has controls that affect how that light is captured and then what is done with that information in order to help it approximate the picture you wanted to take. Both are important in getting the picture you were looking for out of your camera.

Of the settings that affect that conversion process one of the most important is a setting called White Balance (WB). Understanding how this control works is the difference between the picture on the left and the picture on the right, because that's all that changed between the two.