How to Adjust White Balance on Pro Camera

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm rob Mitchell again, on behalf of Expert Village. And while we're on the subject of camera balancing, there is in your camera, a white balance utility. Now, most of your cameras are set on automatic white balance. Which means when you bring the camera out, whether it's outdoors or inside in your living room the camera tries to figure out what type of lights it's working under. And it will try and balance for it. and they do a pretty good job today. But, it's always better if you can set the white balance on your camera to match the lighting that you are shooting under. Now you are going to look at your cameras and you are going to see under white balance, you'll see a couple of different symbols. One of them is the ball with lines on it, looking like sunshine, obvious. Set it to there if you are going to be shooting outdoors. Sunshine, sunlight. The other one might be a long, sort of a tube. This is fluorescent lighting. Now, fluorescent lighting is a whole different thing, too. It creates sort of a green cast if you are shooting with daylight film, or if your camera is on a daylight setting.. Even if your camera is set to average white balance, remember it's trying to guess what type of light it's shooting under, chances are you are still going to get a slight green cast. Now, this is a great tip already, because if you are going to start looking at your pictures, you are probably wondering, why is that sort of green, why is that sort of orange. Now you know. If you set the white balance on your camera, you will be able to control it and get a much better picture. Now, when you get to the tungsten lamps, incandescent lamps, you are going to have to make a correction. and there will be a little light bulb. Remember we are going back to our white balancing on the cameras. The little symbol for the light bulb is for incandescent lights, or tungsten lights. And it's going to help you compensate for the tungsten light and remove that warm cast. So that's, we've got tungsten light, daylight, studio flash. Again, in the old days there was daylight film and tungsten film. If you had tungsten film and wanted to shoot outdoors, you could still do so, but you needed a color correction filter. Just another little aside, for those of you that still want to use film, and still want to play around with some of the effects, and you can get some great effects with this. If you use tungsten film, which is balanced for warm light outdoors, you get a very blue cast over it. If you use daylight film indoors, under tungsten lights, you get a very warm cast. Now you can use this as an effect. Although again, with Photo Shop, you can shoot it properly the first time and you can add the effects yourself. But we are going to get into this a little bit more and once we start using the tungsten lights we will do it without the correction and then we will do it with the correction. "