The past few months have been exceptionally busy months, and I have not gotten to shoot as much as I normally do. Below are photographs from two different training sessions; the first in a mixed-lighting situation during the day, and the second under more uniform lighting at night.
In the first four pictures, the colouring of the hall’s interior is true-to-life, but the white uniforms are somewhat bluer than in real life. In frames where there was a mixture of internal lighting and strong daylight from outside (which are none of the frames below), trying to pick the best colour balance was challenging, to say the least. Where possible, I try to frame shots so that there is only one dominant light source—in the pictures below, that was the internal lighting.
In contrast, the next four pictures were shot under internal lighting only. The hall was not lit perfectly evenly, and there was some colour variation in the lighting itself (e.g., see the third frame below—the background is pinkish), but overall this was a far easier situation to shoot in.
As always, putting a lot of effort in at the front end of the imaging process (when shooting) can save a lot of work later on (in post-processing). Shooting in RAW mode gives the most latitude for fixing problems in post-processing, but to me, the more important reason for shooting in RAW mode is that it gives the best image quality. When shooting with DSLRs, I shoot exclusively in RAW mode these days.