Wayne D's Blog

It's been a while but my latest Howcast video, How to Make Face Paint went live just in time for Halloween. You might notice that is uses the snazzy new Howcast graphics. I tried somethign new on this video and it came back to haunt me. I used a couple of the new LED video lights and though they are nice and bright and cool the gave me a terrible time with the colour rendition. The lights were very cool and blue and even though I didn't notice it when filming it was obvious in editing. I have included an image below that illustrates the issue, the top is uncorrected the bottom is corrected. The corrected side isn't perfect but does look more nautral. Additionally the bathroom footage which was originally shot with the same lighting suffered from shakey cam which meant I had to reshoot it on a different day with different lighting. This meant fiddling during the editing phase to try to fix up the lighting. I have come to realize that light is the biggest technical issue I have to deal with and I now understand why Flolight's new version of their LED video lights are advertised as Daylight with a colour temperature of 5600K.

Now I am off to make my next video How to Make a Spectroscope, who knew you could have so much fun with an old CD or DVD and a couple of razor blades.