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    BENDING COLOUR, MAKING MOVES...

    It’s the choices that happen behind the lens that define what happens in front. As a cinematographer, it’s these choices I make every day, on location, all over the world photographing many acclaimed films & television series.

    It’s also the knowledge that I share through my workshops & speaking engagements. Helping others acquire the techniques that will take their video & lighting to a higher level     Pieter de Vries ACS

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Saturday & Sunday May 19th & 20th

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Coming up

AFTRS 5D course
PDV weekend workshop
Rockdale Council workshop
Sydney Filmmakers Club workshop
Orion Expedition lecture cruise to Russia

What colour balance setting should I use to shoot street scenes at night?

For a night shoot, often full of mixed light sources, use the pre-set tungsten/indoor camera setting. This will cover you for the lighting nasties that can play in the scene and it will look the most natural. 

This should render each light source as it appears to your eye. If you're setting up tungsten lights, then balance to them but don't balance to anything wildly different in colour from that tungsten source.

If you shoot under fluorescents lights at night, do a manual balance only if you have to shoot a scene with fluorescents as the main illumination and be aware that doing this can send other (non-flouro) lights in the scene slightly off colour. In general, I prefer to make my own white balance under fouros.

Pieter de Vries ACS