White Balance

I took a bunch of studio shots yesterday and was very surprised by how dark and yellow they were.

They were sharp enough, but the colour was terrible, and I'd never had studio shots turn out like that before. I tried colour correcting them, but finally contacted my son, who knows WAY more about photography than me. He gave me some suggestions, which I looked into, but none of them panned out. So this morning I decided to check my camera manual to see if somehow one of the settings on my camera had changed.  And sure enough it had.  The white balance was set on 'Flash".  I guess when I borrowed my sister's flash unit a few weeks back, it had sestet the white balance on my camera, and I'd been shooting at the wrong setting the whole time...

Which totally explained why I thought so many of my recent photos were so dark and yellow, and so many of the warmer colours were blown out. My camera was compensating for flash.
Well, I set it back, and took another studio shot...

Success!!  It was back to normal.  What a relief!  
​And here I thought it was my deteriorating eyesight.  
​I'm glad it was such a simple fix!