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Changing white balance in the field?

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15 Mar 2013 17:27 #22708 by Neguah
I´ve just learned how to manually set the white balance with a white sheet of paper or a neutral grey one. But on vacation, it´s not so handy doing that with every shot.

What do you do?

Do you set the WB to auto, and correct it in post?

I tried the color temp on my camera, and I came pretty close to the manual setting, but the color temp gave me a bit greenish filter.
Don´t know it it´s noticeable on a video on Vimeo, but I(!!) notice it.

Any advice?

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15 Mar 2013 17:37 #22710 by BenB
Just find anything white around you. You'll be hard pressed to not find something white enough no matter where you are. When I did weddings and concerts, we did lots of run-and-gun, and lighting changed a lot. We'd find a table cloth, part of someones dress, matte of a framed picture, anything. It wasn't always 100% perfect, but it was way easy to fix it in post, since we were really close.

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15 Mar 2013 18:40 #22711 by Neguah
Ok, good to know. I´ll try to have that in mind. It´s frustrating when you can´t correct WB in post.

I´m fan of raw-images either if it is video or still images, so I need my work to be as perfect as possible.
But I know we live in a world where we can do almost everything with a image to improve it.

Paul Wex' video are very good, and almost every clip is raw. As far as I understand.

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