I like the two warmer versions better. but I'd suggest that Auto is a good place to start unless you are in an area with very different lighting--florescent, artificial daylight, etc. As you showed us and yourself, WB can almost always be corrected in Post Processing, if YOU think it is necessary. Always having it set for Auto also avoids the problem of having to make a major editing because you forgot to change the setting for a new condition.

There is one more adjustment you have to make on the last two pictures: get rid of the dark shadow on her left cheek and under the jawbone on the left side. I think that would make the model--professional model, wife or daughter--much happier with the end product!

Hi my fellow hogs,
Once again I turn to your wisdom and knowledge.

Last time I was discussing DoF. And I can say, I've been practicing a lot. It seems I am more aware of my aperture settings and the results are showing. My question now is this WB. What s right and wrongs ? I've learned to use LR and correct the WB. Besides the normal White and Black slider we also have the presets for white balance. (As shot, Auto, Daylight, Cloudy, Shade, tung..fluor..). For some time I've been either just use the sliders or chose a presets. Until this weekend I have not given much thought. But I do now. I had the pleasure to take some pictures for a good friend of mine who wants some new pictures of her. For this session I took my Sigma 1.4 ART and my newly Nikon 105mm 2.8 macro lens. I decided to start on the afternoon , when the sun was lower, but I see I could have waited a little longer. I tried to have my back to the sun , while the sun was shining on her for best light. I still dont own a good blitz yet, so I am relying a lot on the natural light I have. I was pretty happy with the results, but upon importing them to LR and going through the pictures, I saw they were very warm. So I tried to correct a little. What surprised me was the big difference between "Auto" and "As Shot". From the original warm state, the Auto goes pretty cold. And that's how my question was born. Is there like a correct white balance for those photos or is it a matter of taste. I do like them both, I just don't know what would be optimal, and therefore I turn to you. What's your verdict? Or what should have I done?
I am attaching some examples so you get the idea.

It seems to me that the only standard for the "right" WB would be to accurately capture the scene. But even by that standard, we all have our own eyes and I suspect some of us may see a scene differently than others. Degas and Monet come to mind as artists whose paintings reflected defects in their own vision.

But photography - including very good photography such as that of Ansel Adams - often involves distorting reality - burning or dodging to give it more contrast or more saturation or more softness than we see with our eyes; we often remove clutter or even add something from another scene entirely. And we may change the white balance so that the image is as we want it to be, not necessarily what it was. There is no right or wrong - just a good image or a bad one; even that is a matter of opinion.