5 WHITE BALANCE MISTAKES Videographers Make & How to AVOID THEM!

How to set your WHITE BALANCE for video. Whatever situation you find yourself in, the tips in this video will give you more confidence in setting your white balance. It can be daunting at first to step out of Auto Mode but if you avoid these 5 white balance mistakes, you can't go wrong!
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[@SamHolland]

Which tip was your favourite??

[@HiethGeorge]

All of them

[@SamHolland]

Legend! 🤩🙏🏻🎥

[@WarszawskiProforma]

@@SamHolland auto WB, fix in post, setting before filtration. Apply to my mistakes perfectly :D

[@SamHolland]

💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻🎥

[@markandreessen3218]

I'm an absolute noob. The best was telling the consequences of the setting a (incorrect) white balance. Now I can make educated guesses about the outcome when I set the whitebalance.

[@brandogould9432]

Stellar information! I am so stoked I found this, white balance has always been my weakness as a photographer, thanks for the concise info

[@SamHolland]

Hey. I’m so pleased this helped. I also have newer videos about white balance which may help too. Thanks for watch g

[@JemimasOutcome]

There was so much information in this video, and it was easy to understand! I have been so lazy with my shots as it all seems so intimidating, but it's something I want to improve. Thank you for communicating these tips so well and putting so much attention to detail in the video ✨

[@SamHolland]

Hi Jemima! I’m so pleased this video helped you and thank you for the kind words 🤩🙏🏻🎥

[@MA-jm3fu]

Best combo of practical tips and theory in a single video. Fantastic work mate! Subbed!

[@SamHolland]

Thank you! 🙏🏻 I’m pleased this helped 🎥

[@BenjaminCutting]

Yes! Been waiting for this one! So helpful mate. Thank you!

[@SamHolland]

Ah that’s good timing. Hope it helped. Colour grading coming very soon. Thanks for watching 🤩🙏🏻🎥

[@pavel0900]

Nice, short, and easy to understand video. Thank you!

[@JimmyOlsson]

Fantastic stuff, Sam! I've always liked your videos, but haven't really watched your channel the past year and a half and oh my, you've really leveled up the quality of your videos the the highest level! Keep up the great work!

[@SamHolland]

Thanks Jimmy! Good to have you back 🤩🙏🏻🎥

[@dag451]

Without a doubt, this is one of the best explanations of colour temperature and white balance! Thanks Sam!

[@SamHolland]

Hi Dale. I’m so pleased this video helped 🤩🙏🏻🎥

[@shua_films]

Bro not only was this information but entertaining! Great pacing, good scene changes. Quality content!!!! Much to learn from you brotha 💯🙏🏽

[@SamHolland]

Ah thanks brother. Means a lot coming from the master of vlogs! 🤩🙏🏻🎥 you legend! 💯

[@TRACKSIDE_]

Thanks for the tips 🤙 Btw fun fact - the Sony body cap is exactly 18 % gray, you can use it for whit balancing 😅

[@letterboxfilm]

Is it? I didnt know😮

[@gaetanobruno5889]

amazing !!

[@adamofnotrades]

Great video, Sam. 🙏

[@SamHolland]

Thank you 🙏🏻🎥

[@ScottEdwards]

Mate this is packed full of info! Easily the best video I've seen on WB 💪

[@SamHolland]

Oh mate you legend! Thanks so much! 🤩🙏🏻 so pleased you liked it 🎥

[@audarren]

Amazingly easy to understand.. this is why I’ve subscribed to this channel 🍻

[@SamHolland]

Ah I’m so pleased this helped 🤩 thank you for being a valued subscriber! 🙏🏻🎥

[@JJ_Khailha]

Excellent vid. Many thanks!

[@SamHolland]

Thanks David 🤩🙏🏻🎥

[@JustinLemus_]

Finally understanding the WB thank you!

[@SamHolland]

Hey. So glad this helped. The beauty of white balance is that you can choose how you want it to look 🤩💪🏻🎥 thanks for watching

[@ege6720]

this video might be one of the best wb tutorials. Helped me a lot. Thank you.

[@SamHolland]

Hey. I’m so pleased it helped. Thank you for watching 🤩🙏🏻🎥

[@romanmenyhart]

Excellent video, thanks. I am seriously considering using AWB, because all you need is a little cloud, and your color situation changes drastically. I normally measure the WB using auto first, then set it to that value to prevent jumps.

[@BNBuenasNoticias]

This is a he only one video I’ve seen covering this topic like this! Great!

[@SamHolland]

Thank you. I hope it helps. I have a full series of workshops coming in November. 🙏🏻🎥

[@timbatchldn]

Finally someone on the internet providing practical, properly explained information with simple examples. Thank you Sam, really helpful!

[@SamHolland]

🤩 thank you! Glad you enjoy it 🙏🏻

[@AlSuChess]

Love your videos sam! Just ordered a Lumix S5 thanks to your videos!

[@SamHolland]

Thank you Al! 🙏🏻 that’s exciting. I hope you enjoy. I have a video on how to set it up if you need any tips 🎥🤩

[@AlSuChess]

@@SamHolland yeah man!! I'll be sure to check it out, you have a very down to earth, approachable personality, I'll be sure to subscribe!

[@SamHolland]

Thank you so much!!! 🤩🙏🏻🎥

[@pauljakeman]

Tom of awesome advice, especially the evening settings you mentioned. Your videos always look awesome buddy! Deffo practising what your saying! And I like how you show the differences instead of just saying. Hope your well mate!

[@SamHolland]

Ah thanks brother. So pleased this helped 🤩🙏🏻🎥 keep practising! 💪🏻

[@pauljakeman]

@@SamHolland thanks bro!

[@pauljakeman]

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[@blaquelightworldwide]

Thank you very much, Boss. Info I can use. Cheers to you!!!!

[@SamHolland]

Thanks. I’m pleased this helped 🤩🎥

[@willcrespo24]

All very good tips. thanks.

[@SamHolland]

Thanks will. Glad it helped 🤩🎥🙏🏻

[@AnilKumar-zo2eu]

Thank you so much sir for your packaged information.

[@SamHolland]

I’m so glad this helped 🤩🙏🏻🎥 thanks for watching

[@professionalpotato4764]

A Colorchecker Passport is one of the best investments for me. Or the flimsy collapsible cloth grey card for $10-20 that has been honestly surprisingly decent. Just 100 or 200K +- off true 18% grey, but with most 10 bit cameras now, it is decent enough.

[@9adriano21]

I’ve shifted to using WB lock in my a7IV for run & gun shooting. It’s working so far. For more “produced” shots it’s in manual

[@iSpike]

Good one Sam 👍🏻

[@SamHolland]

Thank you 🙏🏻🎥

[@NaveenKumar-ee1wg]

Excellent video !! I haven't seen a video covering so much about white balance but this. How do you set white balance when shooting Log mode?

[@spartanstanley]

Whoa! So much there! Gonna have to watch this one a few more times. Ha! Great info!

[@SamHolland]

Let me know if you need more help. Hopefully the other videos help too 🙏🏻🎥🤩 thanks for watching

[@OneShotFilmmaker]

Such a really good solid video

[@SamHolland]

Thank you! 🤩🙏🏻🎥

[@MagivaIT]

stumbled across this and you and... yeah... good channel, i like it

[@SamHolland]

Thank you Mark! 🙏🏻🎥🤩

[@pokeboss-oq2zz]

Awesome video, it helped me a lot! Very quick and straight to the point! I just had a question, lets say by accident you forgot to adjust the WB during a shoot and its a different setting (day or night time) is it possible to bring out true color if color corrected? thanks again!

[@eliandkate]

oh thanks, super useful!

[@SamHolland]

So pleased this helped 🤩🙏🏻 thank YOU! 🎥

[@tylerking5610]

Great video! Interesting tip regarding manually bumping one way or another based on pref (cooler or warmer than true white balance). How do you keep the footage looking the same between days and cameras doing this? Seems like getting the camera to the perfect white balance each time and then bumping in post would make that work easier..?

[@WarszawskiProforma]

I personally made some of these mistakes and I'm still trying to remember all the things when being "in rush". It's still hard sometimes, but I totally agree with you, that these rules are crucial. Hard lesson sometimes, but definitely worth taking. You bring my faith back, that maybe it was bad WB, not my poor grading skills 😅

[@SamHolland]

Hey. Glad this helps. The more you do it, the easier it becomes to remember. 💪🏻 thanks for watching

[@LeventeSolczi]

You are Straight so good! I have been filming for years but i love to learn again and again these things .. mainly when i am getting to be so lazy and let canon decide it :)) no way in the future :)

[@SamHolland]

Thank you. I’m so pleased it helps 🤩🙏🏻🎥

[@JWS1968]

The take away here is pick a temp that looks natural and make sure any second camera is matched to that same temp.

[@JRPOutdoors]

Great, digestible video mate. I'm a person that 80% of the time uses AWB for the reason you mentioned at the start. Q - If I were in an indoor space, running and gunning, with plenty of amber led lights around me but with bright sunlight coming through the windows too, what kelvin setting would you use?

[@FulaanCreative]

Man Sam, your editing and overall video structure and quality have leaped in the last year or so. Good job!

[@SamHolland]

Thank you so much for saying that! 🤩🙏🏻🎥 very much appreciate you watching and commenting. Hope you’re well 💯

[@ianvitalis]

You two are doing a lotta great work. I know you'll be NAMES sooner than later. Watching all the other 'big' names but learning from you two as simplified big names. Keep up the good job. See you at the top guys...

[@FulaanCreative]

@@ianvitalis Thanks Ian!

[@KineticAirRgV]

TY brother !

[@SamHolland]

Thank YOU

[@fiffrelin]

Thanks for the video ! Very useful. If I may suggest something, it would have been nice to add a last chapter to explain how to set it actually, in a real shooting situation. What is the thought process. For example I shoot Log, so the image I see is very grey... And I can't really see the WB. So should I first set the camera on natural colors to set eyeball the WB, and then back to log ? Thank you very much for those very useful videos !

[@HiethGeorge]

Top tips and easy to understand the master strikes again .............................

[@SamHolland]

🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩 thanks man! 🙏🏻🎥💯

[@HiethGeorge]

@@SamHolland Welcome

[@SamHolland]

😍💯🙏🏻🎥

[@gen0987]

WB is often forgotten, some think exposure triangle is enough. Great video thanks for this

[@SamHolland]

Thank you 🙏🏻🎥🤩

[@bustedbehera]

I have watched tons of vdeo on white balance, this was the best

[@SamHolland]

🤩🎉 thanks so much. Hope it helped. Happy new year! 🙏🏻🎥

[@Jayrod64]

I have the Sony AX53, and once I learned how, setting the White Balance on that camcorder is dead simple. You go to Menu, Camera/Mic, White Balance, then choose "One Touch" at the bottom. You then hold a white sheet paper(or a gray card) in front of the camera until it fills the entire screen, tap Set, and you should have much more natural colors and skin tones.

[@TravisVarga]

haha while everyone else gets easier, setting white balance has gotten harder. thanks for the video

[@AlSuChess]

Sam! My friend! I had a question about the S5, this might actually be a good idea for a video too. On my Nikon D700 I have the option to do a timer release photo burst with continuous autofocus, so say I want to set it to a tripod and have the camera take, say 15 photos of me posing, for a thumbnail. I set the parameters as far as what the interval is and whether I want it to refocus every time or not. So that way I can be showing something in my hand, and it will autofocus on this object as I move it around. Can I set something like that up in Lumix S5 with continuous AF and say, save it to one of the custom buttons, that way at the end of my video shoot I can just do that and get a decent thumbnail! Thanks in advance! Keep up the good work!

[@NickHaigh]

I am listening to you talk about white balance but then looking at your t shirt (in the studio) seeing it's not white 🤦🏻‍♂️😂 has a cyan like tinge lol or is that intentional hahaha great video as usual though mate, some great tips 👍 cheers

[@SamHolland]

Well spotted. Yeh I like my highlights to have a little tint to them… made easier by having white, whites first 👌🏻🎥

[@Squidpaws-]

Great video @Sam Holland. Do you set your WB with your nd filters on and in your preferred Picture Profile, or do you set it with PP off and without any filters? Thanks in advance. Great audio pack by the way. I use them in all my videos 🙏.

[@SamHolland]

Hi. Thank you 🙏🏻 I’m pleased this helped! Yes, as described in tip 3, always add filters and then set white balance. Same with picture profiles. Hope this helps 🤩🙏🏻🎥

[@Squidpaws-]

@@SamHolland thank you Sam. It's a great help. I don't know how I missed that part. Just watched it again and all clear now...

[@SamHolland]

🤩💪🏻 good stuff! 🎥🎥

[@rossscobievideographer53]

Quick Question Sam, I have been shooting weddings of late, set the WB to Clouds or Sun as its been either or....however, I noticed the clouds seem to glitch ie changing mid clip very jarring...what would you advise?

[@ShlomoNizin]

Thank you! I have four Canon 250D cameras that I use to shoot live music videos. There's no custom WB in Kelvins. Only using the custom picture. Please advise how to set the correct WB for all cameras to match their pictures

[@SamHolland]

The best thing to do would be to set the white balance the same across all cameras. If you have the ability to adjust the tint in camera, do that too. Then match as close as you can in post. I have a full colour grading workshop which guides you through my entire process start to finish in a super simple way and includes matching clips. You can see that here if you’d like to check it out and want to upgrade your colour grading skills - sam-s-site-2564.thinkific.com/courses/SHcolourgradingworkshop

[@lincolngaboardi3]

Sam, how to match the white balance in mixed lights situations? (like live shows or corporate summits). Thanks for your content! keep rock´n!

[@SamHolland]

Hi. I would just set the white balance somewhere in the middle around 5600-6500 🤩🎥 that will keep it balanced inbetween any cool or warm lights. Hope this helps. Thanks for watching 🙏🏻

[@lincolngaboardi3]

@@SamHolland Great Sam!! Thank you bro!!

[@SamHolland]

My pleasure 🙏🏻🎥

[@behystudio]

Hopefully in near future cameras will be able to adjust the WB according to the ambient light so the AW would be what it should be.

[@SamHolland]

That would be good. But having creative control and freedom can never be replaced 🤩 thanks for watching and commenting 🙏🏻🎥

[@professionalpotato4764]

The Fuji X-T4 has Ambient priority WB, however it still messes up. Especially in mixed lighting situations. I just wish more cameras had the same function as the A7iv, binding the WB to a control dial/comp dial to scroll through the kelvin quickly. Sometimes, there's no time to use a grey card at all.

[@TheDigitalLearningConsultant]

You've gotta be from Notts duck!? Great vid. Subbed

[@SamHolland]

😂 good guess. Thank you. Great to have you here 🙏🏻🎥

[@TheDigitalLearningConsultant]

@@SamHolland Really great vid chap - easy to follow and explained really well. Thanks

[@diaryofcreation582]

So in more of a studio setting would it be wise to set up the main light(s) that will be lighting the subject, set the white balance with a white balance card and then add in warmer/colder accent in lights in the background until your happy with the over all look?

[@Josh_Sattin]

Someone makes a comment about you not using a color checker and then... Great video Sam!

[@SamHolland]

😂 exactly! Thank you Josh 🙏🏻🤩🎥

[@Josh_Sattin]

@@SamHolland I loved your comment about it in your last video. I considered giving you a shoutout in my recent video where I used one. No idea if people would know why I said that.

[@SamHolland]

😂 that would have been funny. Those little hidden gems are what the community of KZbin is great for. Thanks so much for watching and commenting 🤩🙏🏻🎥

[@wilismatrix9847]

I learned from school to just take a picture of a white paper or any white surface and apply the custom WB option on that picture.

[@SamHolland]

It’s good to have control over how you want the image to look too 👌🏻🎥

[@Seneslau07]

Thank you! What WB setting of an action camera do you recomand for winter? I use it at 5500k in the summer but can't decide for the winter..

[@SamHolland]

I guess it all depends on the conditions still but since the sun is usually lower, I aim a little higher. But every camera is different so I’d recommend doing a few 5 second tests shots in a couple of different settings, slapping it on your computer and seeing which one you prefer 🤩🎥

[@_adamdunbar]

Can you make a video on starting KZbin, e.g. how to plan videos, how to learn to talk to the camera etc?

[@SamHolland]

Hi Adam. Sure thing! 🤩💪🏻 I’ve been meaning to do this type of video recently so I’ll definitely add it to the list. Stay tuned 🎥🙏🏻

[@andrewmason8691]

Great video Sam. But how do you set WB for shooting weddings, where the environment, lenses and angles change throughout the day and even? I’m finding brides won’t walk around with a colour checker for me. I know. Very inconsiderate of them.

[@SamHolland]

😂 how dare they?! Yeh you just have to take each scenario as it is and select the white balance according to what is best following the tips in this vid. Most locations and lighting environments will need a slight adjustment. You could set it in the middle around 6200 for the whole day and you’d be ok but it will require some extra tweaking. Hope this helps and thanks for watching 🤩🙏🏻🎥

[@andrewmason8691]

@@SamHolland On a Wedding Videographer Facebook page, some will do AWB, whilst most seem to set kelvin manually through out the day depending on the time of day and whether they are indoors or outdoors. As you would expect, there was no common agreement on what the manual kelvin settings should be. :)

[@SamHolland]

It’s also a subjective choice. Nobody can say for sure because it’s always different. 🤩🙏🏻🎥

[@davetriesthis]

Also do what balance any time yo move your studio lights. And black out your windows

[@andrewgallagher129]

Hi Sam. Thanks for all your great videos. Is there a way to measure the color temperature of a light source, either using the camera itself, or with an app or separate device?

[@kristaylor7119]

Hey Sam, what about if you have a white key light and an rgb light in the background. Do you turn both lights on and set the wb or just the key light first?

[@SamHolland]

Hi. Yes, have them both turned on first and then set your white balance 🤩🙏🏻🎥

[@afblrl]

Frustrated and confused with a color checker under my chin is my spirit animal

[@stellachuacs]

Sam, what would be your advice when it comes to setting the White Balance when during shooting an event, which has both indoors and outdoors?

[@SamHolland]

Hi. I would recommend adjusting your white balance to suit the environment that you’re in 🤩🙏🏻🎥

[@verebellus]

because I film in braw, I just use the one shot white balance and then I fine tune it in post by looking at the wb captured whilst shooting and then fixing it up more exact

[@ArcanePath360]

Holy shit. I've been wondering if the temp of the lights I bought (3300k) was wrong, since when I set the camera to this, the colours come out looking bad. I've been struggling with white balance for years now and it looks like I've been chasing my tail. Thanks for this video.

[@devohnthagreatdevohnthagre8240]

hey sam! are you still using the atomos shinobi and the ninja v and which one have you been you been using the most?

[@SamHolland]

Hi. Yes I’m still using both. Here’s a little video that may help kzbin.info/www/bejne/qH-qZXuhZ9pjbqM

[@ruthfurman6953]

Hey Sam did you have multiple light sources. I took your advice and when using 3000 bulbs (my practical and 3000 on my motivated lights , I opted for a higher WB on camera (3,700) and it looked good, but maybe a bit too warm-

[@SamHolland]

That’s good. That’s the whole point 🤩 experimenting to see which works best for you. 🎥💪🏻

[@AnotherBoring43yearold]

Wonder if this can be done on osmo pocket 3?

[@caleb9819]

Could say: son, sun, SONY? I pretty sure those would sound almost identical. While they shouldn't =) Anyway, great video! Thank you!

[@JackFN_VR64]

Kelvin is a system of temperature measurement used in physics and science. The higher the Kelvin the higher the temperature. Ironically, in nature a heat source which emits orange or yellow is colder than a white or blue. 5600 kelvin is 5300 celsius. 1000 kelvin is 725 celsius, It sounds strange when its said that 1000k is a warmer colour than 5600k 😅

[@4ktur]

I cant use auto mood video gone greenish in day light some how it little ok in night. So i use pro mood still i have chanege tint use more red to correct colour. Is their any solution for me

[@DUROKO]

What editing video you're using sir?

[@tedcruzinusa]

Color temperature is so counterintuitive sometimes. It's based on the color of a flame, which at lower temperatures, is red and at its hottest is blue. But visually, we think of blue as a cool color and red as a warm color. So you could tell someone to make the white balance a bit cooler, expecting them to make it bluer, and they lower the Kelvin and make it redder, which is technically correct based on your instructions. GUH.

[@yadoux]

Is it ok to just set it up to whatever value that makes the image look natural and ressemble to what i would see with my bare eye when comparing what appears trough my EVF and what i see ?

[@SamHolland]

Yeah you can do that 👌🏻 at the end of the day, it’s a creative and subjective device. You can use it however you like 🙏🏻🎥 I hope the video helped

[@168KDW]

he looks cute in certain white balance temperature 😍

[@Joe99]

Hm, I'm pretty new to all this, but from what I've gathered so far it seems that most luts expect you to white balance your camera first. I'm like "okay", but doesn't that eliminate my choice to make light in the scene look warmer or cooler since I'd be matching the temperature of the light like you said? If that's the case, how do you even use luts? Is setting warm/cool temperature completely dependent on color grading? Because of this confusion I'm starting to lean towards using no picture profile or using something like cine2, which I've heard is a "what you see is what you get" profile that doesn't require much grading.

[@SamHolland]

Great question. Glad you’re asking this type of thing… yes! White balance is a creative choice just as much as anything. I use 6200k when using 5600k lights. Just because I prefer a warmer look. This video is more to help people understand white balance and how to use it. Also I don’t recommend always matching the camera white balance to the lights. Hope this helps.

[@joshuafcenters]

I have a soft box for a key light it just goes from 0-100% its a gvm. How do I tell if its 5600?

[@PJ_video]

good info, but recording a wedding, I can't just focus on a white balance every time I move to some other corner and place

[@SamHolland]

No, that’s true. Usually I found myself switching between 3 WB settings at weddings. That’s where the WB presets come in handy so you can switch between them easily. Once you get to know which ones you need when, it becomes easy 🤩👌🏻🎥 thanks for watching

[@ZinjaGaming]

ok I'm still curious on warm light (3:34).. how you gonna set your white balance? I mean, in my case.. I'm a color blind so I'm heavy reliable on a grey card, If warm light hit the grey card then the white balance will not white anymore right? it will become yellowish or orange but how I will know I'm on correct color? my major issue is to get the right skin color.. sorry in my grammar, I'm not a english speaker.. but I hope you will get my point...

[@kost1k_k]

Bro, hello! How do you exhibit in v-log?

[@SamHolland]

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[@JeffBourke]

Auto is terible because of the constant changing even in a controlled environment.

[@Jayrod64]

Yeah I changed the White Balance setting on my Sony AX53 from Auto to One Touch. Auto would often still be too washed out even with good lighting. With One Touch, I hold a white sheet of copy paper up until it fills the screen, tap set, and once it finishes I have much more natural skin tones and colors.

[@drunkestdriver]

so far i understand iso, shutterspeed, and exposure. all I'm left with is white balance 💀💀

[@awilsonarchive]

Gotta admit I do find it hard to wrap my head around... like you said you often don't want your whites to look white at all e.g. blue-y in the evening or gold near a fire.... I liked what you said about nevermind setting it perfectly: if you want create warmer say light source is colder and if you want cooler tell cam the light source is warmer... but my question is - 'than what?' i.e. what is the point that you want it to be warmer than or cooler than? Is the spot where whites look white (for better or worse) what you get if you set using a grey/white card?

[@SamHolland]

If you want your image to look warmer or cooler than it is. Or if you set your white balance “perfectly” but you want it to look warmer or cooler. If you set it using a card, anything white will look white.

[@3DRundown]

Hi, do you have something (a video, Advice, etc) to help with White Balance on a VIDEO Camera? I'm struggling with my Canon Vixia HF G70. I had the exact same problem with my G50 (Which I sold, at a loss, to buy a G70, in hopes of better luck). On AUTO It turns everything blue almost immediatly. Even when it doesn't, after a few minutes sitting in front of it, it will turn everything blue. I have to turn the camera on and off again, over and over again. When I 1st turn it on, it looks fine, then, it goes blue. I'm looking for the best path, to resolve this issue. I'm super familiar with manual STILL Photography, but not so much with this. This is a new problem, I have not had with my many previous cameras. #SendHelp

[@stuffstuffstuffyay]

So, is your shirt in this vid color balanced? it looks green on my screen haha. Is this perhaps because ny monitor is no calibrated? So confusing!

[@SamHolland]

I used to add a little bit of green/yellow to highlights when grading. That’s the thing with white balance, get it “correct” in camera then you can do whatever you like when grading.

[@DigiDriftZone]

But what about if you set the white balance perfectly and it's in manual mode, and then the lighting conditions completely change by the sun/clouds/etc and this keeps happening?

[@SamHolland]

You could set an inbetween so that when changes happen, it’s not so obvious. However, when lighting changes, it’s natural for it to change slightly BUT if you use auto WB, your grade will look strange and unnatural. Does that make sense? 🎥

[@DigiDriftZone]

@@SamHolland Thank you, that's good advice, I'll play around :) - initially I wanted to film at our WeWork office but their lights cast this weird green tint and I couldn't correct for it in camera by adjusting the white balance, it just looks unnatural, I think it's low CRI and trying to replace all the cheap fluorescents with my own lighting is proving difficult (pretty big room). So I'm now opting to film during the day with natural lighting from a window and a a softbox (ML60, talking head), but that has its own challenges :)

[@SamHolland]

Ah good choice. 👌🏻 hope the video helped and hope you get some decent results 🎥🙏🏻

[@VeganLinked]

3:30 mistake number 4: you said if the lights are 3200K move the white balance to 4500k. But you didn't explain how you came up with 4500. What if my lights are not 3200k but 2500 or 4000 or any other random number? how do we accurately know where to move the balance?

[@SamHolland]

Hi. I am sorry for the confusion 🙏🏻 these aren’t really rules just more guides. Keeping your white balance around 5600-6200 is a good place to start. I find that works for me in most situations. People often use 4500 when using a combination of candle flames and lamps (2000-3200k) and whiter light sources like moonlight. Did you catch my latest video on white balance? I hope this helps. Just remember, you don’t always need the whites to look white kzbin.info/www/bejne/paeaiql5gNaipNEsi=RPIcUEculU0M6wjX

[@VeganLinked]

@@SamHolland I'll check that out for sure thanks! I've been doing video for over 20 years. But I went to school for psychology and it was just like a weekend thing that I became neurotic at. But when I started it was so much harder than it is now so things like color correction and color grading were next level hard to reach because just building a computer strong enough to edit and dealing with not being able to edit new codecs and so on it's just been a long road. And I've always been such a run and gun shooter flying solo that I often left white balance on auto especially when the lighting changes a lot. One more quick question, if the lighting changes a lot like say you're doing a wedding or I'm following someone around their farm and they're going in and out of shade and there's clouds occasionally, would auto white balance be okay or risky in your opinion? It's done pretty great for me overall. I don't remember which video of yours I watched but there was one that showed a casting of the green on your face from the plants nearby. I suppose it's beyond our control things like that... Especially run and gun.

[@VeganLinked]

@@SamHolland actually I already watched that video you shared :-) I binge watched a handful of your videos yesterday. Even a couple of which I had already seen prior to that. Great work!

[@VeganLinked]

@@SamHolland I wish I had somebody like you on my team! Or I wish I could be on a team with you! I just love being productive and creative with others but it's hard to find people as passionate as me and as awesome as you. Keep on rockin man!

[@JakeMazurski]

4:04, see thats what so confusing to me. To white balance NOT to the white. But to what then? How do I know the value? Experience? Ok. What if the shot is too dark and a light source is relatively far away from me... Hmmmmm

[@SamHolland]

Hi. This should help… kzbin.info/www/bejne/paeaiql5gNaipNEsi=va2oQqAUPNoCZxbh

[@JakeMazurski]

@@SamHolland Hi Sam, thanks for the reply! I followed your link and watched the video, but again, in that same example, now at minute 6:00, you don't explain and don't provide the steps on what to do in this situation in the dark with the candle.

[@JakeMazurski]

@@SamHolland that section is called "Problem with white balance." I understand it's a problem 😄, but how do we fix it? Cheers!

[@whatwelearned]

I feel personally attacked by #5 😂

[@817KK]

So can I jus use a white balance card in pretty much every situation? Instead of setting all the settings

[@SamHolland]

That’s right 👌🏻 BUT don’t forget, as mentioned in the video, it’s also a creative choice. So you can still dial in how cool or warm you want it to look

[@817KK]

@@SamHolland right. Thanks for the quick reply 🤝🏾 much help!

[@SamHolland]

My pleasure! Thanks for watching 🙏🏻 all the best to you 🎥

[@JeffBourke]

yeah custom white balance for indoor looks really bad. people EXPECT inside to look a little warm.

[@seraphin01]

very nice video and all, but I don't understand how you actually did a good balance in your examples, like in your desk room, but then your actual video where you speak and all the tint is awfully green which at first to be honest I thought you'd say "follow this video to not do this mistake" haha.. sorry not trying to be mean, but yeah the green tint was all I could see on this video! good pieces of advice for anyone struggling with white balance.. especially those who think "I'll fix it in post"

[@SamHolland]

The white balance is set in camera so you can make adjustments easily. I like a yellow/green tint in the highlights. Check out my newer videos and see what you think

[@RWROW]

I must admit that I found the way you held your color checker distracting from an otherwise excellent video. You had your fingers on some of the color squares and I've read that doing that will alter the color on those squares over time and it is a much discouraged practice.

[@festerbestertester1658]

Certainly good tips, but.....I'm primarily a wildlife photographer and it's not always easy to get critters to sit still long enough to change camera settings. By the time I adjust all the settings, the bird is gone. White balance is one of the easiest settings to adjust in post, so I typically set the camera to a ballpark setting, like sunny or cloudy, and then sit down with LightRoom.

[@SamHolland]

Hi. Yes with photography and shooting in raw the white balance is no problem. With video unless you’re shooting raw, you need to get it close or spot on 👌🏻

[@thestudentoflife2105]

what do you shift for brown people?

[@TheYouTubeMechanic]

cinema tick

[@ArcanePath360]

And then there's LOG3 which is a nightmare even with corrective LUTs. My reds always look purple or pink no matter what.