Your photo will look like this if you are shooting under tungsten light such as a light bulb and you don’t set your white balance to TUNGSTEN

Your photo will look like this if you are shooting indoors with a flash and you have set your white balance to DAYLIGHT

Your photo will look like this if you don’t set your white balance to CLOUDY. This setting adds a little yellow and orange to compensate for the color of this light source

Your photo will look like this if you don’t set your white balance to SHADE. This setting adds more yellow and orange to compensate for the color of this light source

Your photo will look like this if you are shooting under fluorescent light, found in most commercial kitchens, if you don’t set your white balance to FLUORESCENT

Custom White Balance adjusts the presumed white point for digital cameras. Aim the camera at a white card and capture the white balance setting so that anything white will be white in your photo. I always set the white balance to manual mode. Often, I create a custom white balance to get better color rendition. Sometimes when using electronic flash, the white balance has to be set manually because the light doesn’t exist until the flash goes off. A setting for daylight is usually close.

Food stylists  are required to create beautiful dishes that can hold up for several hours on and off set, not to mention withstand hot, harsh lighting conditions.

To create the effect of grill marks on food, some stylists use metal skewers heated over an open flame, while others prefer to use an electric charcoal starter.  The electric starter makes a wider mark and minimizes your chances of burning yourself.