Shooting at night

Night poses special problems for colour photography. It’s not the level of illumination that’s the problem, but the colour of the lighting. If you shoot in a busy city centre, you may have a mixture of tungsten lights, fluorescent lamps, yellow/orange streetlamps and even multicoloured neon. How are you supposed to reconcile all these with a single white balance setting? Our advice would be not to try. This is one situation where your camera’s auto white balance should just be left to get on with it. Only if the colours look completely wrong should you worry about taking over manually.

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