Color tweak - The White balance

White balance (WB) 

Experience - 5

its the process of removing unrealistic color casts, so that objects which appear white in person are rendered white in your photo .

in simple words i would like to refer it to as color tweaker .  it increases the temperature / color tone of the image . 

you can do it later in the computer while editing it , but its worth great tool worth learning .

So how to get started . 

all i can do is give you a brief idea .. You Need to crack it Yourself .

• if your camera has automatic mode , then you need to switch it off . in sony cam's its usually automatic in everything . In general .So got to MENU>in that "intelligent auto" or anything which gives the meaning of automatic To "Program Auto" or "Scene Selection" .
• when You select this mode , then again go to Menu>scroll down ,you will see an option called "WB AUTO" or "WB" .
• select the option . it nearly looks like this   

the general default screen for wb

Now there will be a lot of options in wb to select .

Auto – this is where the camera makes a best guess on a shot by shot basis. You’ll find ,it works in many situations but it’s worth tweaking out for trickier lighting.

Tungsten – this mode is usually symbolized with a little bulb and is for shooting indoors, especially under tungsten (incandescent) lighting (such as bulb lighting). It generally cools down the colors in photos/gives bluish tint to the shot.

Fluorescent – this compensates for the ‘cool’ light of fluorescent light and will warm up your shots.

Daylight/Sunny – not all cameras have this setting because it sets things as fairly ‘normal’ white balance settings.

Cloudy – this setting generally warms things up a touch more than ‘daylight’ mode.best for sunset and sunrise shots and usually landscape . will come to that . 

Flash – the flash of a camera can be quite a cool light so in Flash WB mode you’ll find it warms up your shots a touch.(optional in camera) .

Shade – the light in shade is generally cooler (bluer) than shooting in direct sunlight so this mode will warm things up a little.

Manual White Balance - the best and more creative option :) .

Tungsten

Fluorescent

Daylight/Flash

cloudy

Shade

Tungsten

Fluorescent

Daylight/Flash

cloudy

Shade

Now coming to Manual white balance - its represented as "custom"  . 

select that> then a small square box will appear in your display screen (generally)

Now you have to select the reference color .it should be a plain color inside the little box . then click >ok or shutter button to select . you will see the change in tone of the color when its done .

 the camera will assume your reference color as white and equally change the actual color of other colors

 too ..

example : for a sunset if u put orange color as reference color , then in sunset all orange shade and reddish shade look nearly white .  

THATS ALL NEEDED FOR THE START . any doubt please feel free to comment .