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we shot with warm light and made it even warmer in post

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Do you mean because of our accent and prononciation ? Sorry, we're french 😅 but I have good hopes that our English will improve over time

@@MakerSchoolTV no no i really appreciate your efforts and I love your accents and i dont have issues with your accents! It's just understanding the lighting concept is little difficult for me 😅😅

Oh ! Yeah the inverse square law is difficult to grasp, but once you get it it's quite useful. And it's one of the more difficult topic when it comes to lighting. Most of the other things that are useful to learn are easier to understand :)

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Haha we don't post enough for that 😅 but maybe one day

I'm not sure but I think it's in the millions

It can be a very difficult endeavor. To begin with you should check forecast to see if the weather is consistent. It you have some sunny days and some cloudy days for the same scene, thoses shots are gonna be very hard to match. Even if you watch the color with the white balance, the cloudy day is still gonna produce a softer and dimmer light. As for the time of days it depends. For a cloudy day the light is going to be drastically reduced in intensity early in the morning and towards the end of the afternoon. But for a sunny day it can be a lot more challenging as the direct light from the sun might move around in the room. If the windows are northbound it's gonna be easier, because the sun travel from east to west with a slight incline to the south (and a heavy south incline during winter). Which means you most likely won't have a lot of direct sunlight coming through the windows and the light is going to be somewhat consistent during the day. If the windows are southbound then the sunlight will most likely enter the room and move from one side of the room to the other during the day. If you still want to match the color temperature of different shots with different natural lights despite thoses problems it's actually the easiest part. A cloudy day is gonna be colder and a sunny day is going to get hotter and hotter from noon to sunset. So if you want the color of the scene to look like it's all the same day/time of day, you need to change your white balance everytime the color temperature of the natural light changes, to maintain a consistent color in the camera, and compensate for the light changing color in the real world. The easiest way to do it accurately would be to use a meter to measure the color temperature of the daylight frequently, but thoses can get quite expensive (ours is 800$+, it's from Sekonic I believe) But don't worry, you can still do it without a tool like that, juste by filming a white object for reference like a piece of paper on each new shot, and doing it by eye, comparing the tint of the piece of paper on your camera to the tint it had on your previous shots. It's not gonna be perfect but it's gonna be close enough that you should be able to clean things up in post with minimal efforts 👌 I'm not sure I answered accurately to your question so don't hesitate to ask more :)

@@MakerSchoolTV thank you so much for your awesome and speedy reply! This video is the most entertaining and most beautifully shot tutorial I've ever seen, you have inspired me in so many ways. Plus you helped me with my specific question! You're amazing. Thank you so much!

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You're welcome :) thanks for watching !

Thanks ! Good news, we just started to work on new videos too ;)

If you want the light to appear as white yeah, but changing it a little bit to a warmer or cooler look would still look natural, if you aren't too heavy handed of course. If you are looking for a perfect neutral white be careful : most led or HMI lights that advertise 5600k are not quite exactly at 5600. If you don't have a tool to measure the color temperature of your light you can always try to twick it around 5600k and try to find the perfect white on your camera. It would be small increments though, definitely not under 5000k and not above 6000k for sure. Hope this answer helped !

As we mentioned in the video the idea can get quite confusing for most people. The white balance isn't warm or cold, it's a setting in your camera. What gives the image cold or warm tone is the color temperature of your light source relatively to your white balance settings. If your white balance setting is below the color temperature of the light source, the image will have colder tones. If the white balance setting is above the color temperature of the light source the image will have a warm tone. So for exemple let's take daylight, it's around 5600 Kelvin. So if your white balance setting is at 3200, daylight will look cold on your camera. But if your setting is 9000kelvin daylight will look warm in your camera. That is also the case for the white balance setting in professional video grading softwares, like Da Vinci Resolve. If you think about it, it is the same in nature for incandescence. So yes, for a GIVEN COLOR TEMPERATURE, a lower setting of white balance will make it appear colder, and a higher white balance setting make it appear warmer. But for a GIVEN WHITE BALANCE, a light source with a lower temperature (like a candle) will appear warmer, and a light source with a higher color temperature (like a cloudy winter sky) will appear colder. Which is what we are saying in the video :) I think you are confusing white balance and color temperature in some parts of the video

I would say it depends on the codec you are using. A raw format, or a 444 sub sampling, allow for a lot of flexibility with colors in post, but a more restrictive codec might be hard to manipulate. In that case I would record the footage warm by changing the white balance, because touching it in post might result in subpar quality

@@MakerSchoolTV Hey! Great, thank you for your quick and kind answer!

Yeah, it's such a powerful creative tool, and you can get a lot of different styles out of it depending on your projects or you scenes

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Yeah it could be an artistic decision. The result might be a bit more saturated that your eye sees in the sunrise/golden hour/Blue hour, because the eye can adapt a little bit to color temperature shift, but the camera doesn't unless you change the white balance. But that could be a cool and moody look. In the end it is a choice on wether you want a more neutral look for each step of the day, or if you want a more colorful look, and if so how much colorful do you want the film to be.

@@MakerSchoolTV thank you very much for the answer. I remember having heard a RUclipsr saying that he is keeping a fixed white balance to capture the light as authentic as possible for the spectator. Maybe he chose a compromise between full sunlight and sunrise/sunset scenery. I will try and imho I think I have to adjust WB a tiny bit in case I want to keep the footage accordingly to how I see it, as you also mentioned. Thx a lot 🙏🏼

We are actually getting back into making videos around June/July 😁 we just had a lot of projects this year so we didn't have much time for the channel

@@MakerSchoolTV looking forward to it. 👍🏻

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You choose the white balance depending on what light source you have and what result you want to achieve. Let's take a tungsten light for exemple. It's at 3200 Kelvin, so if you want the light to be white-ish you would put your white balance at 3200k also. But if you want a bit of a warmer look you would choose something like 4000-4400. And for a colder look you could go with 2500-2900k. Same applies with sunlight Wich sits around 5600k on a sunny day. If your lighting is fixed at 3200k and you want to use it at the same time as sunlight, you either need to embrace the difference or color temperature as a look, or correct your lights with full CTB gels. They are not to expensive and I'm sure you can find some seller online, the two biggest brand that makes them are Rosco and Lee filters. I hope this answer helped, but if I wasn't clear or if you have more questions don't hesitate to ask again !

Thanks ! Glad it was useful

Thanks ! We start shooting again this summer, and we will try to be a lot more regular after that

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We start shooting again in the summer ! Sorry for the big breaks, we all had big projects this year

Haha I hope so ! Thanks for the kind words

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