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White balancing your camera

White balancing your camera

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White balancing your camera

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- Do things look a little hot to you? Hold on, how about this? (snapping fingers) Now we're looking a little too blue. Okay, how about this? There we go. You see, color balance can affect the overall look of your footage. And by color balancing incorrectly, you can end up with either an orange or blue color cast to your footage. That's because for the most part, there's two types of lights, tungsten and daylight. Tungsten lights are typically the type of lights, you have around your home, in lamps and other light fixtures. While daylight is the natural light that comes from the sun. Tungsten lights tend to be more orange, while daylight tend to be more blue. That's because of a thing called color temperature. Now, I don't want to get too nerdy on you here, but, basically lights with a lower color temperature, are on the warm side, while lights with the higher color temperature, are on the cool side. Tungsten…

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