How does Paul Rogers’s method for setting the correct white balance compare to industry standards?

Paul’s method is exactly what working filmmakers and photographers do in the real world—he’s just stripping out the jargon.

Industry-standard ways to nail white balance are:

1. Custom WB off a neutral reference (white/gray card or paper)
2. Preset Kelvin values (e.g., 3200K tungsten, 5600K daylight)
3. AWB only as a backup when lighting is changing fast

Paul’s “white sheet + custom WB” is a simplified version of the first method. Pros typically use a calibrated gray card instead of random paper (because paper can be slightly warm or cool), but the principle is 100% the same: fill the frame with neutral, tell the camera “this is white,” lock it, and shoot.

Want a quick breakdown of when to use custom WB vs dialing Kelvin manually?