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Shooting action-cams with a "red" filter in flat profile, and manually white-balancing in post-production

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On 8/8/2025 at 12:34 AM, giovannirescia said:

I just read through the entire post and I found it fascinating, I've learned a lot! Also kudos for your approach to this topic (explanations, experiments, etc) - it honestly felt like reading a scientific paper. I can't wait to run some experiments of my own!


Thanks, glad you found the approach interesting.

I tried to summarise the whole shooting process in the article below, which might be a little clearer:
https://waterpixels.net/articles/articles_technique/afterhours-magic-ambient-light-video-workflow-for-action-cameras-r161/

cheers
b

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