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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

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- [Instructor] If you shoot in low light, it's safe to assume that, when you're done, you're going to need to go into your image editor and correct the white balance of your images, because shooting in low light is a really complicated white balance situation. Auto mechanisms are very good, but in low light they tend to fall down, because in low light you're usually working in a mixed lighting situation. There might be a streetlight and lights from a house and the moon and so on and so forth. And that's just a messy situation for an auto white balance mechanism to figure out. In this case, we were shooting under stage lighting where there was intentionally placed multicolored lights all over the place, and so the auto mechanism just couldn't figure it out. Even if I had gone to the trouble of meticulously manually white balancing for this situation, and usually when you're shooting stage work, that's not possible because you can't get a white balance card up onto the stage. But even…

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