Unfortunately, that’s the way a fair number of photographers shoot. Members of this “I can always fix it later in post processing” group will spend a lot of time in front of their computers. It also makes them sloppy photographers.

Shooting in RAW does afford you the ability to change your WB (and exposure, contrast, saturation, sharpening, etc) after the fact. But your best results will still come from a properly exposed image using the proper WB setting. I’m a firm believer in “Shoot it right the first time” and you should be too.

Learn proper exposure techniques and know when your camera’s meter is lying to you. Use the appropriate WB setting for each shot. Make it so that you can batch process a folder full of RAW files and output JPG’s with little or no correction.

The choice is yours. Spend time massaging every image or spend more time out shooting.