Camera Labs

What's up guys? Love the site and the videos; lots of great information. I just got my first *good* camera, a Nikon D80. I love it and I've been having a lot of fun w/it (see some pics at http://www.flickr.com/photos/skychasernyc). Anyhow, I've run into this sort of situation a few times and my intuition tells me that you basically have to deal with it, but I figured I'd pop a topic in here and see what you guys have to say.

I was trying to take some pics in a parking lot during sunset. The sky looked beautiful, and the parking lot was being illuminated by those orange electric street lights. The problem I ran into was that if I adjusted the white balance to make the sky look right, the areas illuminated by the street lamps were way too red. If I adjusted the white balance to make the lights on the ground look right, the sky was way too blue. I sat there for quite some time trying to figure out how to get it to look right, and ultimately decided that it probably can't be done... Any tips?

Take multiple shots, shoot RAW, then edit later

Either that, or go for an HDR.

Your best bet would be to choose the White Balance that looks the best, and shoot RAW.

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