How do I get my pictures to be less YELLOW?

Question

I am shooting with a Canon rebel. I do not know much about the camera. I usually just shoot and pictures turn out fine. However, tonight I'm trying to do some product pictures with this makeshift whiteboard studio I set up. I have one floodlight and two "daylight" bulbs set up to shine on the objects nd it looks really bright with the naked eye, but the pictures are turning out very yellow. With the flash ON and the lights OFF it looks great, except that it gets darker at the edges of the photo. Some of the objects i need to photograph are kind of large so that might be an issue. Can you take a look and offer any advice? Please keep in mind I have never really adjusted the settings on this camera so I would need very thorough instructions if I have to change something. Thanks!

Here's a shot with the flash and no lights: http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k83/JennyCrackCorn/IMG_4665.jpg
And here's no flash with the light:
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k83/JennyCrackCorn/IMG_4666.jpg

Answer 1

its tungsten light that is yellow, if you look closely the light isnt white its yellow

use a piece of white paper and set the white balance in the camera it will be around 3200k - read setting white balance in your manual

or use a whole blue or two half blue gels over the tungsten lights

Edit: the exposure on the flash one is terrible the white is going grey,

use a grey card to set exposure heres some links about them,

http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLR,GGLR:2006-30,GGLR:en&q=grey+card&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi

http://www.digitalartsphotography.com/instructions.htm

use a peice of white paper to set white balance


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Answer 2

Terisu gave the correct answer. Sorry I went to click thumbs up but missed and hit thumbs down. Sorry Terisu, I didn't mean to do that. If you have trouble looking for your white balance control, your manual will tell you how to set it.

Another thing you can do if your camera allows, is set the white balance manually. If it can do it, then the manual will explain how to point the camera to a white surface and it will automatically set the white balance according to the colour of the light source on that surface.

Answer 3

Go into your camera's menu for "white balance". Your manual should tell you how to set it. Set it for "incandescent".

Mason, I've done worse with the thumbs. I've accidentally given bad answers thumbs ups.

Answer 4

When all else fails, READ & STUDY the Owner's Manual for your camera. It wasn't put in the box as packing material - it was included so you could learn to use your camera.