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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vess1, post: 1473696, member: 13650&quot;]How many light sources are on in the picture area?&nbsp; Day light counts.&nbsp;&nbsp; If you have day light from windows and your photo light or an overhead light and your photo light it will never be right.&nbsp; Every camera can only adjust to one type of lighting at a given time.&nbsp; Two different types of lighting mixed together screws up the white balance and you basically can&#039;t do it.&nbsp; &nbsp; I take photos in the basement, in the dark, under my photography lights ONLY for this reason. </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;If you are using a single light source, then as others have said, you should be able to set custom white balance on a pure white sheet of paper.&nbsp; Make sure to adjust the image on the screen so it&#039;s not too dark and not too bright when you set it.&nbsp;&nbsp; Once it&#039;s set, you&#039;ll have to stay in manual mode and it&#039;s only going to work under that lighting set up.&nbsp; If you move somewhere else, you&#039;ll have to re-set the white balance.&nbsp;&nbsp; The auto WB is not that great on most cameras FWIW.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; If you do all this, the color has to turn out &quot;right&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp; I just wanted to add that as sjlund says below, setting the custom WB to white, will tell the camera what white is under ANY lighting.&nbsp; The bulbs shouldn&#039;t matter.&nbsp; When I still had my saltwater tank, I could set the WB under pure blue 560nm actinics and still have whites come out pure white in the photos.&nbsp; If you&#039;ve ever seen how pure blue actinics are by themselves, you will know that is about the most extreme wave length scenario aside from red daylight to shoot under.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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