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"Color temperature" is a way of measuring the quality of a light source. It is based on the ratio of blue light to red light. A cooler light has a higher color temperature.

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White Balance

"Color temperature" is a way of measuring the quality of a light source. It is based on the ratio of blue light to red light. A cooler light has a higher color temperature.

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WHITE BALANCE

For Video

Is all light created equal?

How does your eye work?

How does a camera lens work?

Your eye is constantly making adjustments in different types of light. When you come in from outside, or enter a bright environment from a darkened room, your eye adjusts to the new light source quickly. A camera lens, built to mimic the human eye, cannot do this as easily.

Cooler and Warmer

Color temperature
Color temperature is a way of measuring the quality of a light source. It is based on the ratio of blue light to red light. The unit for measuring this ratio is in degrees Kelvin (K).

A light with higher color temperature has "more" blue lights than a light with lower color temperature
Thus, a cooler light has a higher color temperature. The following table shows the color temperature of some light sources:

Color temperature
Temperature Light Source
1000-2000 K 2500-3500 K 3000-4000 K 4000-5000 K 5000-5500 K 5000-6500 K Candlelight Tungsten Bulb (household variety) Sunrise/Sunset (clear sky) Fluorescent Lamps Electronic Flash Daylight with Clear Sky (sun overhead)

6500-8000 K Moderately Overcast Sky 9000-10000 K Shade or Heavily Overcast Sky

Which part of the flame is hottest?

Incandescent Light

Redder light = 3200K

Fluorescent Light

Bluer Light= 4000-5000K

Sunlight (on a clear day)

Bluer Light= 5600K

White Balance makes good color in your shots!


If the light used to illuminate the original scene is not white, the colors in the image will be skewed toward the predominant color produced by the light source. Such images are incorrectly white balanced and all the colors in the image will be off balance.

White balance camera settings

Which shot is correctly white balanced?

Which shot is correctly white balanced?

Incorrect

Which shot is correctly white balanced?

Incorrect

Correct

Creative White Balance

AWB

Creative White Balance

2800 K

Creative White Balance

10,000K

Remember:

Always white balance BEFORE you


shoot!

Creative White Balance

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