Beginner’s Photography: Basic Camera Use and Theory
White Balance
A course by Giulia Candussi , Photojournalist and Documentary Filmmaker
About the video: White Balance
Overview
“I bet you have wondered yourself, upon taking a picture, why is the sunset not as gold as it looked, why is snow bluish rather than white, or even why does your skin look yellowish. That’s because the white balance in your camera wasn’t set correctly. ”
In this video lesson Giulia Candussi addresses the topic: White Balance , which is part of the Domestika online course: Beginner’s Photography: Basic Camera Use and Theory. Learn how to use a digital camera and its settings to start taking high-quality photos.
Partial transcription of the video
“White Balance In this lesson I'm going to talk about the color temperature of the light and I'm going to teach you how to properly set the white balance. Did you ever take a picture of the snow, and the snow didn't look really white but kind of bluish? Or did you ever take a picture of a sunset and it didn't look as gold on the picture as it did in reality? Well, probably, the white balance wasn't set correctly. You know that magic time at the beginning of the day and at the end of the day, when the light it's almost gold? It's actually called the golden hour, and that's because the light i...”
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Course summary for: Beginner’s Photography: Basic Camera Use and Theory
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Giulia Candussi
A course by Giulia Candussi
Giulia Candussi is an Italian photojournalist based in Scotland with over a decade of experience in producing photo reportages about human rights, environmental issues, and cultural identity. It was during her studies in International Relations (Bologna University, Italy) where she discovered the field of photo-reportage and the impact it could have on the world. Passionate about expressing her vision, she went on to study a Master’s in Photojournalism in London.
Giulia has collaborated with local media and international news agencies such as Getty Images and her work was published on La Repubblica, L’Espresso, The Guardian, Huffington Post, US Weekly, and more. She has traveled extensively in Europe and the Americas, also working with non-governmental organizations. As a documentary filmmaker, she has produced “Upstream” and “Hogar”. Currently, she produces “Van Life”, a documentary series for BBC Scotland’s “The Social”. Her work has been exhibited in èStoria, international history festival (Gorizia, 2011) and Photomonth, international photography festival (London, 2010), Centro Culturale Candiani (Venice Mestre, 2015), at the art gallery Storie Contemporanee (Rome, Italy 2017), and more.
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