White Balance at Sunset

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PhilipD

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This has had me thinking for a long time...people say use white balance...but let's say you are shooting at sunset and the white card is now a golden orange (glow from the sun) you wouldn't want to white balance would you?
I think that alot of the time a white wall will not be white when there is a warm colored light shining on it...
Now if the wall is now red because we're shooting in a red lit room...you would want it to show red on the white wall rather than white :)
 
How about using the white balance presets?you dont need a card then!It worked out fine for me once by the way.
 
thome said:
How about using the white balance presets?you dont need a card then!It worked out fine for me once by the way.
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Yeah that's ok :) I also Like to white balance without doing it on white just to get the warmer colors then leave it at that most of the time...Depends though whether it's a documentary style on how much :)
 
jambredz said:
i think the warmer balance maybe a desired look at that time
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Yes I suppose it's the time when you White Balance...Like before sunset...
I remember doing a scene at London City airport and It was dull with grey clouds and I made it look like a Sunset/vinny jones type film just from white balancing on blue :)
 
You white balance when you want something to look white. You put a white card in the light where you want it to look white, and that's what you white-balance to. If you want a sunset to look deep red, obviously you wouldn't white-balance to it, you'd white-balance on something blue which would force the prevailing red to get even redder, etc.

We got this shot by faking it in-camera, using a 5600k white balance and using the color temp -7 setting to exaggerate the redness. No post-processing, this was done in-camera.
sunrise.jpg
 
Barry_Green said:
You white balance when you want something to look white. You put a white card in the light where you want it to look white, and that's what you white-balance to. If you want a sunset to look deep red, obviously you wouldn't white-balance to it, you'd white-balance on something blue which would force the prevailing red to get even redder, etc.

We got this shot by faking it in-camera, using a 5600k white balance and using the color temp -7 setting to exaggerate the redness. No post-processing, this was done in-camera.
sunrise.jpg
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That's a really nice shot :) Thanks for the info :)
 
Kevin Railsback (n8ture) got that shot. He's a master. My contribution was to change the color temp settings, but Kevin did all the valuable work there!
 
Barry_Green said:
Kevin Railsback (n8ture) got that shot. He's a master. My contribution was to change the color temp settings, but Kevin did all the valuable work there!
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I'll have to get a new Scene file set-up for weddings...Just doing a search now...maybe try my own from that Sticky you have and modify a little...I need to find a Cable to go from DVX to PC USB as the PCMI was on my laptop and using that isn't good anymore as it has little space and is slow :)
 
Barry, you always have such great comments, you should write a book or something.
 
jambredz said:
if ur a fan of warm wedding tones ...check these out http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?t=171902

http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?t=174637

you'll find the settings in padmovie's thread...and they are custom settings from Shaun1970 with minor tweaks . His link seems to be dead so i didnt post his thread.
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Yes Definitly want to have warm look wedding videos :)
I have my first (Free) Wedding on Friday...They are happy and know it's my first time...have another 2 in august :) then I hope to get better :)
 
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