GH4 Is this form of White Balance ever practiced?

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gh4_storyteller

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I've been watching The Verge documentaries for a while now, and to me it appears that they don't follow traditional white balancing techniques. When watching this doc, It appeared to me that they set the White Balance at 5500K and left it. This would allow tungsten light to appear yellow and only true whites are rendered when in daylight. Maybe I'm completely wrong and mis-interpreting their grade; but I'll be shooting a doc with my GH4 soon, and this 'style' is intriguing me.
 
Haven't seen what you're referring to, but I would consider it a valid artistic choice, if it delivers the look they're going for. Back in the old days, we would use a glass warming filter in front of the lens to accomplish the same thing.

Technically speaking, the point of white balance is to inform the camera as to what proper white should be, so that it can render the colors most accurately... but that doesn't have to be the only purpose of it. Most modern pro video cameras now offer the ability to adjust the white balance to whatever you want, as a way to bias the images to be warmer or cooler. It does sound pretty extreme to go all the way to 5500k when shooting under 3200k lights though...
 
You have the ability to set the White balance anywhere you want. Rather than setting it to where someone else set it for their project, select the White balance point and method that best reflects the look you want to achieve on your project.

You might start with page 135 in the GH4 manual.
 
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