Understanding the White Balance of the Digital Camera

When I was a new user of the digital camera I sailed merrily along, not giving much thought to white balance. My first digital camera, a point and shoot Canon A – 310, was excellent for colour. An awkward sort of change when that camera was dropped in the waters of creek crossing. The camera was left damaged, with only the memory card left untouched. My second digital, also a point and shoot model, a borrowed Sony cyber shot. This camera was new to me and I didn’t know it had no white balance mode.  It had all most of the same settings otherwise. It had a snow mode, which I loved. Perhaps there would be no more bluish over tones?

I discovered the difference of not having the white balance mode the day I had a bad photo shoot. I took off-white pictures! I took many poses of my cute sisters dressed in their matching black & white attire. Little did I know that I clicked so many times that I disturbed the white balance, only the first few pictures turned out. Being very disappointed, I had to understand the white balance of digital cameras, as this was the key to good colour photos.