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@jvkewillivms The one camera setting I never bothered with. Everything else was manual. That was the whole thing when I started shooting. If you were shooting aperture priority you weren’t serious. ISO, shutter, aperture, all of it deliberate. AWB just sat there and I left it alone. Never thought twice about it. Funny thing is, white balance might matter more than most of those settings. AWB is trying to show you neutral. Neutral isn’t a look. It wasn’t until I started actually dialing in Kelvin in-camera that I started liking what I was bringing home. The results just made more sense. Especially once I stopped trying to fix it in Lightroom after the fact. Fuji files especially. You push white balance warm in post on a Fuji RAW and you get magenta. Skin tones go weird. It doesn’t behave the same way a Canon file does. I learned that the hard way a few times before I figured out that shooting a little warm in-camera and pulling it down in post gets you better results than trying to push it up from neutral. Here’s where I landed. Daytime and golden hour I start at 6300K and go warmer from there if the light calls for it. Rain, snow, overcast I go as low as 4000K. That’s where the blues and whites actually live in that kind of environment. Fighting it with a middle-gray white balance just kills the whole mood. Portra 400 is daylight balanced at 5500K. That number isn’t arbitrary. I think about that as the baseline and work outward from there depending on what the light is doing and what I want it to feel like. Nobody questions the one setting that’s doing the least artistic work. Funny how that works. #shootfilm #filmisnotdead #montanamoment #bigskycountry #montanaphotographer
