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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.

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  • http://www.henrik-pantle.de henrik

    i put a link on http://www.mitvwiki.org/Suggest_Improvements
    to izzy video.

  • Alex

    Very cool – and saves so much time in post.

    Must have a go with that later.

  • http://www.yafiunderground.com Cole McDonald

    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).

  • http://www.leetj.com Tracey

    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.

  • Enrique Borja

    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

  • http://www.leetj.com Tracey

    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.

  • http://www.justbecausepictures.co.nr Nathan

    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…