Yellow looking photos

Can someone help. I noticed when I take pictures inside the ship everything has a yellow look to it, if I turn the flash off then they're not yellow but of course they're dark and don't turn out. anyone have suggestions about why the yellow and what to do about it?

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Your camera "auto white balance" is getting confused by the tungsten/incandescent lighting.

• http://www.nikonusa.com/en/learn-and-explore/article/fubpbfls/setting-white-balance.html
  
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_balance
  

Probably you have the camera set up for daylight. The light inside the ship might be by lightbulbs, spotlights and would require you set up the camera for incandescent lights. Presetting your camera to white balance can be useful not not as much as setting the camera for the exact light v- sunlight, shade, incandescent etc.

Can someone help. I noticed when I take pictures inside the ship everything has a yellow look to it, if I turn the flash off then they're not yellow but of course they're dark and don't turn out. anyone have suggestions about why the yellow and what to do about it?

 

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Thanks very much

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If you plan to switch your camera's auto white balance off, be sure to remember to change it back (or switch to a different setting) before shooting in different lighting like outside during the day. It has taken me a while to get in the habit of double-checking settings before starting a new session and have occasionally had some bad shots from using "leftover" incorrect settings for the situation (e.g. high ISO in daylight).

I am not one who advocates always shooting raw. But I do whenever the lighting conditions are challenging. Doing so allows me to select or alter white balance in post processing.

and then there's some of us who are color blind.... white balance post-processing is dangerous.

+1 for what Bobmcliberty said.. nothing worse than looking at a days take from walking around a port and realizing you never rest from 2800K when you did that family pictures at dinner last night. Been there, done that and yes, you can fix it sort of,

and then there's some of us who are color blind.... white balance post-processing is dangerous.

Been there, done that. "Pops, why is Uncle Scott's face blue?"

WICA The magic formula!

Before I leave the house (or cabin):

White Balance set to auto

ISO set to auto

Compensation set to +0-

A-mode

Almost, but not quite foolproof.

Dave