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nice one Bill
nice one Bill
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I don't white balance. Why? Because I want the resulting unlit image to more closely look like what a diver's eye will see. All those beautiful, white balanced videos give divers an unrealistic idea of what things will look like when they go down. ...
I don't white balance. Why? Because I want the resulting unlit image to more closely look like what a diver's eye will see. All those beautiful, white balanced videos give divers an unrealistic idea of what things will look like when they go down. OK, so why don't I white balance really? Because my housing doesn't allow me to. Sniff.
If RAW capture is an option, is it recommended to forget about WB underwater and do the corrections during RAW conversion on the computer ?
As an exercise, I posted a sample on Vimeo of some color correction work that I did where the original footage was not white balanced.
Some of you may find it interesting to look at:
Color Correction Example on Vimeo
Very nice, but interesting considering you were using artificial light to start with! Halogen? It was blue light! Cave lights and not video lights? That would be interesting shooting different types of lighting! Thanks!
In a video camera? Tell me more, I have not heard of it or the program that would read a RAW version (I assume uncompressed) of a AVI or HDV format?