My lamps make my videos look red and orange?

Question

So I'm using a JVC Video recorder and whenever I don't record my videos during the day but in my room with my lamps on.. it makes my skin and everything else look really red and orange. What should I do to make that go away? It's really annoying.

Answer 1

Regular incandescent bulbs have a distinctive red color that shows up in pictures. Fluorescent tubes are at the other end of the spectrum and make everything appear very blue.

If your camera has a white balance setting in the menu, you can use this to adjust it to the ambient light source. Remember to reset it when you go outside later on. Alternatively, you can try to find "full spectrum" lamps that don't accentuate the red end of the spectrum.

Answer 2

Don't use a JVC video recorder

Answer 3

Standard incandescent lighting is usually insufficient to produce good results when shooting indoor video.  Only part of the light spectrum is emitted by such lighting.  That why if you had said everything looks blue, fluorescent lighting might be the culprit.  Sunlight is what is known as full spectrum lighting and that is what most camcorders are balanced to.  Some camcorders have filter or different compensation setting usually express as degrees Kelvin such as 3000K.  You either need to setup a filter on your camcorder or purchase video lighting.  Try the filter first, it would be a free thing.

Answer 4

If you can't find a setting named "white balance," you might have a button or option that has a light bulb icon on it (and maybe a sun, a moon, a snowflake, etc.).

The light bulb setting is preset to essentially do the same thing as white balance...compensate for the lower color temperature of indoor lighting.  Try it out.

Your eye (or your brain, I guess) does it's own little compensation, so whatever light you're in always looks "normal" to you...but if you put two lights with different color temps next to each other, you'd see the difference right away.

I noticed these days that they are starting to sell compact fluorescent lamp bulbs with different color temps.  You might want to look for those...I think I saw ones called "cool white" and "daylight" that produce colors more like actual daylight.

Answer 5

record your videos during the day

Answer 6

get rid of it plz