While recording my camera always makes my face become super white...?

Question

It's annoying, because it makes me look paler than usual, my camera focuses, but my face stays the same.... I have a normal lamp above my lens, and a Fujifilm something or another. Any way you know how to fix it?

Answer 1

Perhaps you're simply too close to the camera, and experiencing White Out that gives the ghostly white/pale skin. You need to learn how to adjust the light; read the instructions it came with. Or, get a diffuser for the light source for close-up shots; it scatters the light nicely, and prevents red-eye effect and White Out effect, and prevents horrible, grotesque shadows in the background.

Answer 2

Test your camera in different lighting situations and from different distances from you. When you have found the right amount of light and distance, that would be almost like learning photography.

Answer 3

You are a victim of auto exposure. If you wear dark clothing and have darkness around and behind you the camera is adjusting the aperture to the dark and causing you face to overexpose. Try lighter clothing and brighter spaces and the camera may be more kind to the face.

Answer 4

Is the background dark? The camera may be averaging the exposure and the dark background may mean your (brighter) face is being over exposed.



Try manual exposure or exposure compensation if your camera allows it with video - read the manual.



As said, try different lighting, with, perhaps, a paler background.

Answer 5

Either adjust the lighting (Experiment!) or wear makeup.





As with the difference between the way ears and microphones sense audio,

the way cameras "see" is not the same as human vision.