A mid-winter scene. Note the yellows.

Stepping back to last week’s white balance post, Let me show you something that was wrong.  During the winter, most of my small-camera photography is indoor.  As such, ISO is always set high/fast, and white balance is usually left on Tungsten (the light bulb icon).

So I walk out of a building (at 8:30 in the morning, no less), and this is what I see.  It’s cold, maybe -5 F, and I don’t want to mess around too much.  ISO was already at 400, as it usually is in the winter.  Flash was off, EV was at 0.  This is the exact exposure as it appeared that morning.

However, note the yellows.  I could fix that (easily) in post-production, or I could claim that it’s part of my artistic vision.  It’s neither, however.  No, this was the effect of taking a pic when White Balance was set to daylight.  The big light there?  It’s not at daylight colors.  Thus everything went yellow.

Still, not really a problem.  I have a feeling this would work extremely well in black & white…