From the course: Photography Foundations: Night and Low Light

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Correcting white balance

Correcting white balance

From the course: Photography Foundations: Night and Low Light

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Correcting white balance

When you shoot in low light, most of your images are going to need a white balance correction. Low-light situations play havoc with auto white balance mechanisms, shifting your image towards red or orange. You can try and be very diligent and careful and manually white balance at the scene, but sometimes that's not possible. Sometimes you may not have a white balance card, you may not be able to get it into the light where you're shooting, or as in the case when we shot the theatresports show the other night, you maybe dealing with stage lighting where a light is actually being intentionally colored in different ways and that coloring is changing throughout the shoot. Even if I could have gotten on stage ahead of time and done a white balance, the light was changing throughout the show and so that white balance would have gone bad after a scene change and then I'd be back where I started. So if you're shooting RAW, this all gets much easier, because with a RAW file, you can change…

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