Everyday home lighting?

[Tee]

No need to spend money on new bulbs. From here on out learn custom white balance. It takes a second to learn.

 

[Designer]

Designer, we're slowly replacing all of our bulbs to LED's anyway so if there was a better bulb/temperature that worked better I would look into that.

I have had difficulty finding "warm white" LED lighting. For now, just continue with changing your lighting fixtures to what you want. When you make photographs, do what the posters above have told you regarding setting the WB of your camera.

 

[WayneF]

No need to spend money on new bulbs. From here on out learn custom white balance. It takes a second to learn.

Agreed that learning White Balance is the solution. Even if new light bulbs, they never match expectations, and we always still have to correct white balance.

But Custom White Balance is more about JPG. It is not really useful for Raw. For one thing, there is no camera white balance in Raw. Sure, we can set camera Auto WB to affect the embedded JPG which shows on the camera rear LCD (so it doesn't look so bad when we see it at the time), but there is no WB in Raw. Which is a major point, an advantage, we never need to worry with camera WB for RAW... simply does not matter. Because instead, we simply set it later, after we can see the actual results, to know exactly what it needs, and to have the superior tools available then.

And for another thing, there is no color temperature reported in the Exif (no K degrees). Nikon has their own proprietary way of reporting color in Exif, and "AS SHOT" in Adobe Raw comes out a little different, still needs correction. Which again, is no big deal, it wasn't correct in the first place, and we wait until we can see it, and have the best tools, and we simply fix it.

Just clicking on white things in the image works much of the time (more than half of the time). On this image, the cup top, the cereal box, the white wall, or the white in the boys pajamas, all work quite well (could be just the slightest degree warmer perhaps, an easy tweak). Including a known white card in the first test shot is much better. WB is quite easy, but it does require the slightest concern and effort.

 

[KmH]

Indeed. I used the White Balance tool in Photoshop CC Camera Raw and just clicked on the white top of the cup.

Setting a custom white balance will not prevent un-correctable mixed lighting color casts.