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Working with mixed lighting

Working with mixed lighting

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Working with mixed lighting

Now apart from exposure, one of the other issues that's going to come up any time you're shooting a day lit exterior, is issues of mixed color temperature, if you have any artificial lights in that scene at all. Now, any time you're in an interior like this, chances are there's going to be some lamps or some other fixtures that are also on, even though we have daylight spilling in. So, the first thing we have to decide is, what do we want a white balance for? Typically, if it's day lit, we would want a white balance for the daylight coming in from outside because we simply can't easily change that. So, in this scenario, we have white balance for daylight so that the light that you see over my shoulder outside of the window, looks natural and normal the way it does to your naked eye. However, you might notice, that I'm still looking a little bit warm in the front. That's because we wanted our subject, me, to still look nice and warm. So what we've done there, is we have a one by one…

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