Canon 40D setting issues

I am noticing that the white balance seems to look like it is not metering correctly. I don't know if a setting on my 40D is not set up correct or not because it looks like everything is fine.

Most of my pictures from Indoors seem to be very yellow in tint or reddish... I have tried changing multiple settings when using it but cant seem to correct it.
And when I am outside the colors just aren't that crisp. I always adjust my white balance depending on the situation, inside incandescent if no flash, using flash change to with flash, and ect. By doing this it still doesn't seem to adjust correctly. I just bought my 40D not that long ago so I don't know if maybe internally it wasn't calibrated right or if I just need to adjust a setting on it. I use a 580EX II. Is anyone else having this kind of problem with their 40D??

Anyone know what I need to change?

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Part of the problem is that there is no "correct" white balance. There is a "neutral" white balance, but neutral is not necessarily what you want. There are many times where you want to capture the tone of the scene as lit by the actual light—candlelight, for instance. Less extreme and more to your point, I think, is that many scenes shot under home tungsten lighting will look cold and sterile if you go for completely neutral white balance (I don't see anything wrong with your example photo).

Anyway, learning to adjust WB to get what you want in a given picture is something that takes some experience. You'll need to spend some time playing with WB in different lighting.

On your 40D you've got many different WB controls at your disposal. You have the presets—note that the Tungsten preset is for 3200K professional photolamps, not for home incandescent lighting that tends to be more like 2800K. You have Auto WB, which intentionally undercorrects in order to retain the "color feel" of the original scene. You have Kelvin WB, where you could go down to 2500K if you wanted to. You have Custom WB, which typically works extremely well at producing neutral results.

And on top of those you have WB Shift, which allows you to tweak whatever WB setting you're using.

I think that you'll find, though, that most of the folks on the forum don't bother with any of that. They shoot Raw and adjust WB during post-processing.

I just wrote a bit about this in my 40D Review, Part 2
http://photographybybr​adley.wordpress.com …on-eos-40d-review-part-2/

Read the section below "White Balance"

it's not you, it's the camera. My Leica P&S camera has MUCH BETTER AWB than any canon I've owned. 1 series included. It's pathetic really, but they do it. I think they feel leaving it yellow/red is a warmed shot and more welcoming, but honestly, I can add that in post thanks canon...

Shoot RAW and adjust them your self, AND use CWB when you can. It'll make you life easier.