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White balance tips
November 29th, 2008, 07:51 PM
Last night I was shooting video at a football game under artificial lights (metal halide). I used a white card to white balance the camera, and it showed a color temperature of 4000 degrees Kelvin. This is similar to what I experienced at our home field, and I thought it would be a setting that should work. When I got home I found that the footage was too blue, and I should have had used a higher color temperature setting. While it is easy enough to color correct in post production, I'd really like to get better at white balancing in the field so that I come back with balanced footage.
When white balancing the other night I tried several different times, facing in a couple of different directions. Each time I got a similar result.
Does anyone have any practical tips on how to know whether your white balance setting is good or not? Do you think I need to use some warm cards?
Thanks,
Tom
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Tom Vaughan
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Los Gatos, CA
Posts: 69
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