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Using the ExpoDisc for white balance

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Using the ExpoDisc for white balance

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- I dragged Heather out here to another shady location to demonstrate a manual white balance tool that I have here. This is an ExpoDisc and what it's gonna do is help me get a more accurate manual white balance. The reason that I think I need manual white balance is because we're in shade and as you've seen auto white balance can mess up in shade. Just to be sure that that's where we're at here, I'm gonna take an auto (clicking of camera) white balance portrait here. It looks pretty good and it might be it looks pretty good because she's surrounded by red rock which are reflecting some nice warm light up onto her but still I think it could be better. It looks a little cool. So I'm gonna do just a normal manual white balance, however, rather than having her hold up something white to manually white balance off of, I'm gonna use this thing. The ExpoDisc has all of these little diffusion grid things in one side. There's probably a Latin term for that that's more technical. I don't know…

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