A photographing device comprising: a white light emitting device that is used as a source of flash light of the photographing device and emits white light, the white light emitting device constituted by LEDs (38R, 38G, 38B) emitting red, green and blue light and emitting white light as a whole when all of the LEDs (38R, 38G, 38B) emit light at the same time; a power supply device that supplies electric energy to the white light emitting device, and includes an output device that outputs a voltage of the power supply device (40, 42) and a capacitor charged with the voltage outputted by the output device (40, 42); a colour temperature determining device (148, 150B, 150G, 150R, 138) that determines a colour temperature of a subject light; and a light emission control device that determines a light emission amount of the white light emitting device according to a guide number, makes the white light emitting device emit light by supplying electric energy from the capacitor to the white light emitting device, controls the electric energy supplied to the white light emitting device to obtain the determined light emission amount, and controls a colour temperature of the flash light to the colour temperature determined by the colour temperature determining device; characterized in that the photographing device is configured to obtain colour image signals of a subject image captured with a taking lens and an imaging device; the colour temperature determining device (148, 150B, 150G, 150R, 138) is configured to determine the colour temperature of the subject light according to the colour image signals; and the photographing device further comprises a white balance correcting device (126, 130) that corrects a white balance of the colour image signals according to the colour temperature of the subject light determined by the colour temperature determining device (148, 150B, 150G, 150R, 138). a white light emitting device that is used as a source of flash light of the photographing device and emits white light, the white light emitting device constituted by LEDs (38R, 38G, 38B) emitting red, green and blue light and emitting white light as a whole when all of the LEDs (38R, 38G, 38B) emit light at the same time; a power supply device that supplies electric energy to the white light emitting device, and includes an output device that outputs a voltage of the power supply device (40, 42) and a capacitor charged with the voltage outputted by the output device (40, 42); a colour temperature determining device (148, 150B, 150G, 150R, 138) that determines a colour temperature of a subject light; and a light emission control device that determines a light emission amount of the white light emitting device according to a guide number, makes the white light emitting device emit light by supplying electric energy from the capacitor to the white light emitting device, controls the electric energy supplied to the white light emitting device to obtain the determined light emission amount, and controls a colour temperature of the flash light to the colour temperature determined by the colour temperature determining device; characterized in that the photographing device is configured to obtain colour image signals of a subject image captured with a taking lens and an imaging device; the colour temperature determining device (148, 150B, 150G, 150R, 138) is configured to determine the colour temperature of the subject light according to the colour image signals; and the photographing device further comprises a white balance correcting device (126, 130) that corrects a white balance of the colour image signals according to the colour temperature of the subject light determined by the colour temperature determining device (148, 150B, 150G, 150R, 138).