White Balance / Exposure

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kmcgrath

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Is it important to set exposure BEFORE setting white balance? I think the answer must be yes since I recently set white balance before setting exposure and I noticed (after it was too late to reset white balance) that my white balance was "off". The only thing I can think of is that the exposure was way off the mark when I set the white balance.
 
i think its important to set the exposure before whitebalance so you avoid the overexposed error when whitebalancing as well as the low light error...

also if you whitebalance then add a filter it may effect the white... so you would whitebalance after the filter has been added (which changes the exposure?).
 
OK, that makes sense. I think that must be the reason why my white balance was off: I was overexposed when I set it! Thanks much.
 
ST_ said:
also if you whitebalance then add a filter it may effect the white... so you would whitebalance after the filter has been added
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If you white balance after the fiter, you will kill the filter's effects. So, no, you whitebalance it before the filter, otherwise you will just make the camera compensate for it.

That is unless you want to use the filter for some technical issue and don't wan't it's effects shown (as using an 85b to shoot exteriors), then you do it after. It's really logical without me complicating it, though...
 
taubkin said:
If you white balance after the fiter, you will kill the filter's effects. So, no, you whitebalance it before the filter, otherwise you will just make the camera compensate for it.

That is unless you want to use the filter for some technical issue and don't wan't it's effects shown (as using an 85b to shoot exteriors), then you do it after. It's really logical without me complicating it, though...
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Sorry i was refereing to a ND filter not a poltrisation filter or something...
 
If there's too much light to white balance, can you use the nd filter to cut down light to white balance and then take off the nd filter to shoot?
 
Absolutly, that is why they are there. However, usually, if there is too much light to white balance, then there is too much light to shoot, unless you want really over exposed footage, which in digital looks really bad. So yes, use the ND filters to white balance and shoot.
 
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