All language subtitles for Procolor_C08_L4a_Concept_Colorcasts

In the next couple of lessons, we're

going to be talking about color casts,
what they are and how to fix them.

But let's take a look
what we mean by color casts.

Anytime we talk about a color cast,
we're talking about

kind of an overall color
that's kind of pushed into everything.

For instance, this image on
the left has an orange color cast

because there's nothing
that's really white.

Everything is some shade of orange.

And same thing
for this picture on the right.

Everything is some shade of blue.

Now, these are really extreme examples,
but we can contrast that

with this image in the middle
where we can see

her dress here is pretty darn
white skin tones look normal.

This is obviously shot on a sunny day
and things look how you would expect them

to look on a sunny day, which means that
there's little to no color cast.

If there's a problem with the color
cast of an image, it's usually because

the white balance in your camera
isn't set right.

A camera can't adapt to the different
colors of light as well as our eyes can.

So whatever color of light you're shooting
under, you can tell the camera

to set that color of light, to be neutral,
to be white, and then it kind of adjusts

the rest of the colors
to make sense under that color of light.

If we don't tell our camera

what color of light we're shooting under
or we set that setting wrong,

we can get something that looks really
warm like this are really cool like this.

You can even get situations where it looks
too green

or too
pink, and color casts aren't always bad

as long as they're intentional
and they make sense for your story.

Where it really becomes a problem is if
you have several shots that look like this

and then you have a shot that it's mixed
in with them and it looks blue,

that's going to be distracting
to whoever's watching your movie.

So we need to learn
how to adjust the cast of an image

to either make it look normal
or to have the cast that we actually want.