White Balance

Today I learned how to make a custom white balance setting in order to optimize my photograph based on the current lighting condition.

Set 1:
I took a picture of the dog using one of my flourescent settings, which resulted in bad lighting. Then I took a picture of the white background beside the dog and set the camera to use that to gauge the white balance.
Bad Lighting:

Good Lighting:



Set 2:
To get the good lighting this time I walked right up to the artwork and held up a piece of paper so I could capture the lighting state and used that photo as my custom white balance.

Bad Lighting:

Good Lighting: