Night shot white balance advice

Maybe I'm not searching the forum right but could not find a thread on this. Wondering for long exposure night shots like ones where car headlights form lines, do you use AWB or something else. The answer I assume may be it depends what look you want. Personally I'd like to reduce as much as possible that orangeyness of long night exposures.

Just decide the effect you want. AWB will try and "correct" the colour cast, but do you want it to look like daylight?

If you still have colour in the sky then it may be best to use the "Daylight" setting. This will preserve the colour of the scene , but any tungsten lights in the scene will indeed be reddish.

If there is no natural light left, then the "Tungsten" setting would theoretically be the right choice, but it really is a matter of taste.

I usually go incandecent/indoor/tungsten, shoot raw and only change it in aperture if needed.

If you shoot RAW you can then try the various white balance pre-sets and see which one you like best. If one is close, you can then tweak the balance from there.

HTH. Kris.

thanks folks, i'll do some tests tonight, off to collect something from harrogate and leeds so you never know, might be something worth stopping for.