In Photography, What is White Balance?

And, Why Do You Care?

Photo by Tudor Baciu on Unsplash

White balance is the adjustment of color cast in degrees Kelvin, from, for instance, tungsten, to obtain natural-looking colors in the 5,000K range.

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