Colour cast and white balance (Part 2)

For the second part of this exercise we moved indoors to look at mixed light - outdoor and indoor light.  I decided to shoot from the inside of my house for these images.

Auto

The light inside and outside looks pretty accurate and the way we would expect it to be. 

Sunlight

This is too warm for the indoors light whilst being accurate for the light outside

Tungsten

Makes inside look correct but the outside light at the window is a bit blue.  This would be even bluer if it was a little darker outside. 

Our eyes acclimatise to the differences in the light we have both indoors and outdoors.  It is only since doing this exercise for the Art of Photography some months ago I realised how much they do.  Tungsten bulbs do emit a warmer more yellowish light which our eyes come to accept as normal once we have adjusted to the lighting situation.  

I think that out of the three I would tempted to go for the Tungsten image as the indoor whites seem white and the outside light just looks like night is starting to fall.  

The most unacceptable has to be the sunlight setting.  It is far too warm for the tungsten light.  

Another alternative would be to take the Auto light and make some adjustments.