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My $60 color checker card saved a wedding shoot last month
I was shooting at a friend's wedding in Savannah and the venue had these weird purple LED lights all over the dance floor. My camera kept showing everyone looking sickly green in the previews. I pulled out the color checker card I bought for 60 bucks and shot a quick reference frame before the first dance. In post, I just white balanced off the gray patch and the skin tones finally looked natural. Has anyone else used a physical card instead of just eyeballing it in camera?
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elizabeth_garcia19d ago
How bad were those previews before you fixed it though? I used to be the guy who thought white balance cards were a gimmick and that I could just fix everything in post with the temp slider. Then I shot a reception with colored uplighting on the walls and spent hours trying to get the skin tones right, and every fix made one person look okay while someone else went orange. That purple LED mess you dealt with would have wrecked me back then. A gray patch gives the software one true thing to grab onto, and it just works, even when the room is fighting you.
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