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White balance considerations

White balance considerations

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White balance considerations

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(laughter and cross talk) Steve's out there shooting again. I'm in here snacking. There's a problem we haven't addressed yet though, and that's white balance. White balance, as I mentioned earlier, is always really an issue when you're in low light because everything turns a lot more red. Steve and I are taking different white-balance strategies. He's gone out and is trying a manual white-balance strategy, and I've decided to simply ignore white balance all together. I'm shooting RAW and so I know that I'm going to be able to change my white balance after the fact. So--and I wasn't just looking for more food here-- I was looking for my white balance card. What I'm going to do is go out there and put my white balance card in there somewhere and take a picture of it and then take it away, and then I know that later I'll be able to use this as a reference to correct all of the white balance in my image. So we're going to shoot some images and then talk about it and see what strategy…

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