Trick your camera’s white balance, and get interesting results.
I received this interesting comment from Tracey:
I just wanted to post a video that I shot with the GL2 using incorrect white balancing in the camera. I balanced it to an orange card, then used a cheapie 100W light. THe only thing I did in post was add a widescreen matte, a bit more black, and framerate conversion. It is amazing what you can do with the white balance.
Check out his site at www.leetj.com.
Tags: Cinematography, Effects
May 22nd, 2007 at 6:57 am
i put a link on http://www.mitvwiki.org/Suggest_Improvements
to izzy video.
May 22nd, 2007 at 7:21 am
Very cool – and saves so much time in post.
Must have a go with that later.
May 22nd, 2007 at 8:50 am
How orange is that orange card? Can you post a pic of the card with the camera white balanced normally so we can see what kind of card you’re using (or just let us know what kind of card).
May 23rd, 2007 at 11:39 am
I hardly ever use professional gadgets (homemade balancing cards, jibs, lighting, etc.) so I just go through my wife’s scrapbook paper and find diferent shades to experiment with. May two favorites are orange and light purple to get a very cool (Matrix look) or yellow (24 look) respectively. The orange I used is around #ff9900 rgb or 0 47 100 0 cmyk. Just remember the darker the shade the more intense the shade will be. I use a lighter shade if I just want it to be subtle.
May 24th, 2007 at 3:20 pm
very good tip! ill give it a try later.
if you dont mind, can you share how did you compress your video four youtube, it looks very very goo.
thanks in advance
Enrique B.
Mexico
June 1st, 2007 at 6:47 am
I’m not sure what I did different from anyone else. This was actually my first video I downloaded to youtube. It may have been because I sent it in the format that they use (flv) instead of letting youtube compress it for me. Since I do my personal sites in Flash, I compress to flv format at the highest settings possible. This still makes for a smaller, but better quality, movie file. Hope that helps.
June 29th, 2007 at 11:23 pm
I played around with white balance some on my camera and got a nice blue tint that would work great with one of my short films by white balancing the camera with a bright red trash can…