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Originally Posted by KC Foggin
So okay, I am probably guilty of this one thing more than anything else when out with the camera. I will wind up taking a lot of shots on a beautiful sunny morning and then realize I still have the white balance set on "cloudy" or vice versa. Just how much of a difference does this make to the overall quality of the photo?
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As Steven says, if you shoot in RAW then the white balance can be set aftewards with no detriment to the image. If however you shoot in JPG its more imortant to get it right. While you can adjust the colour balance in your editing software, post processing will degrade the image to some extent.
To see the difference between shooting in cloudy & sunny and auto, try taking three consecutive images of the same scene with the different settings. Sometinme the mood of an image can be improved by using the "wrong" white balance
