Making Your Own Podcast, Episode 2: White Balance

Why is white balance important? Because light comes in different colors!

It doesn't matter if you're using a Sony F23 super-duper camera, a Sony EX1, a Panasonic HVX300 or a Canon HV20, if you don't white balance correctly, your shot will look like hell. Every camera has a white balance feature, and many have a bunch of presets -- for outdoor sunny days and overcast days and indoor night shooting and backlighting and on and on and on.

Light color is measured according to temperature. Higher color temperatures (5000 K or more) are "cool" (greenblue) colors, and lower color temperatures (27003000 K) are "warm" (yellowred) colors. Lightlbulbs in your house are probably around 3000K; sunlight is 5000k or more.

While our eyes correct for this quickly, our cameras do not. We balance for light temperature, then, either by using a pre-set or by setting it ourselves. In this episode, I give you an idea of how we do it - we use a product called WarmCards.

I show the warm 1/4, warm 1/2, warm 2, minus green and cool 1 settings on the Warm Cards...which means I look freaky in some of the video. The fun thing is that the light stayed constant; just the thing the camera saw as white changed.

So, watch and enjoy. Next up: audio systems.

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[pofrani]

thanks for this video! very cool