White Balance

In your own words, please explain what color temperature is. What is white balance? What color is outside lighting vs. inside lighting? Why is it important to white balance your camera?

Color temperature is how warm (orange) or how cold (blue) a footage looks depending on the type of light the subject is exposed to. White balance adjusts these extreme temperatures by adding either colors in order to resemble what the scene looks like to the human eye. Outside lighting appears to be blue, while indoors lighting appears more orange. It is important to white balance your camera because it allows the footage to obtain the colors the human eye sees. Without correct white balancing, the shot will have an unnatural color that is displeasing to the eye.