Thread: Business Video lighting
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Old 12-20-2014, 07:37 PM  
Alice22
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Originally Posted by mikesouth View Post
If your skin tones are bad it is more likely that your cameras white balance is improperly set. If the lights change color temp during operation then yes I would blame the lights but I find that unlikely. If you are not using your camera in manual mode that is the FIRST thing you need to learn to do. Set the white balance using an 18% grey card then set the aperture for the depth of field you want then adjust your shutter speed and the distance from your lights to the subject (or the light intensity if its adjustable, but beware that almost certainly changes your white balance.) to get the proper exposure.
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I use camera in manual mode with custom WB.
Still don't like the result... (with the second, heavy lighting the result are much better).
I also heard from others that was not happy with this kit.
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