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Issue 1 Tip 3 White Balance White balancing is calibrating your video camera to capture color as accurately as possible. The idea is you tell the camera which color it sees is actually white, letting the electronics adjust everything else using white as the base. We’ve all seen video that have not been properly white balanced. Example is shooting outdoors, then walk indoors, the video may appear reddish/orange. If filming inside, walking outside may make the picture appear bluish or when videoing underwater and the video appears bluish. Almost monotone in color. The color temperature of sunlight is higher than incandescent light, which has a low color temperature. That’s why sunlight looks whiter, bluish than indoor lighting which looks yellow/orangish. When you walked outside with the video camera, the camera was adjusted for … Read entire article »
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