Evening Out The Brightness and Color of a Set of Images

So I have a set of images, usually between 500-700, all taken in a 20min period or so. Natural light through a window. It's shot handheld with my Canon rebel with a 18-55mm lens. Due to the slight change in light over the time period, the fact I'm zooming in and out, and moving around the subject, I get a lot of value and color variation. See the images below...
My current process is to manually color correct each image so they match in terms of brightness and color. This gets very tedious of course. Could someone suggest a faster, preferably completely automated way to even out the brightness and colors of a set of images like these in lightroom so they all look pretty similar to each other?
Thanks for any help!
- Neil

Hi léonie,
>> One problem - it is not only the different color of the light because of the setting sun.
>> Your Harry and Harold are receiving the sun light from different directions. Harold is
>> facing away from the sun and the light in the shadows is much bluer. I doubt you will
>> be able to "Lift&Stamp" the adjustment between these two groups of images without
>> fine tuning it. The "shady" Harold will need additional color correction to turn the bluish
>> shadows into sunlight, because the shadow regions need contrast stretching and
>> more vibrancy as well.
Yup, that's one reason I think I need a color correction after the fact method to handle this situation, obviously taking a shot that's mostly in shadow will look different than one where the character is almost all in complete sunlight.
I guess I'm really having three issues here, first is the blue tint that gets introduced when I zoom in, and then second is the natural lightening and darkening that occurs as I take photos of the subject from different angles, and third is the fact since its sunlight the light does change somewhat over the 20minute period.
Hopefully the first issue can be solved by turning off automatic white balance, and I'm still hoping there may be some automated method for evening out the value difference introduced by the 2nd and third issue. Although even if I can just solve the first issue that would save me a ton of time.
Thanks for the info so far.
- Neil

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