Month: March 2026

Setting White Balance Deliberately, Not Automatically

March 2, 2026August 19, 2026 Gethin Moreau

I spent three hours last Tuesday watching a kid in a rented studio stare at his monitor, frantically trying to figure out why his skin tones looked like he’d been dipped in orange juice. He was convinced he needed a more expensive sensor or a better LUT to fix it, but the truth was much…

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Running a Set Where Nobody Shouts

March 1, 2026 Gethin Moreau

I remember a shoot in a damp basement outside of Bristol, twenty years ago, where the generator was coughing like a heavy smoker and the producer was vibrating with a level of anxiety that was actually making the light flicker. Everyone was looking for a new piece of software or a more sophisticated digital workflow…

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