Hey Eric Aaron from the photography playground. Let's start by revisiting white balance. The white balance setting in your phone camera corrects the color temperature radiating from all the different light sources around us. The purpose of the white balance setting is to get a neutral color temperature not to yellow and not to blue. The default setting is automatic white balance. In most cases, the camera does a pretty good job in this automatic mode.
If you're shooting in row and I'm assuming you started doing that by now, you can leave it at automatic white balance. Because if somehow the camera was off with the colors, you can correct them in the post processing phase. Being able to correct the white balance afterwards is another incentive to shooting and roll because it gives you peace of mind knowing it's covered. You don't have to be bothered with the white balance setting while you are photographing. In this lecture, I will just show you what the manual white balance tool does. When you click the white balance icon in your screen, a new menu opens up where you can manually adjust the color temperature.
Once you've opened up this menu and adjusted the white balance, it will be locked. When light conditions change, you need to adjust accordingly. When you move into the Blue Zone, the camera will add more blue to the image and when you move into the yellow zone, the camera will add more yellow. Just slide the wheel and look for the sweet spot where the colors become natural. Definitely do not go into the extremes. I adjusted this one a little bit to make the wide wall more pure white instead of the slightly yellow version on the left.
A white wall or anything else that you know to be white is a very helpful instrument to get your white balance on point. Then click on tint. It's another tool to get the colors right. It controls the balance between the green and the magenta tones. Again, don't go into the extremes. To check the color using something white.
As long as manual white balance is active, the menu is visible in your screen. By clicking the lock white balance icon, you'll go back to automatic white balance. When you should enroll, you can go back to the menu now and deactivate the white balance icon. It will remove the white balance shortcut from your screen. See you in the next lecture. And in the meantime, happy photographing