Holy shit, I make my living as a DP and just learned so much. I’ve always liked mixing color temperatures instinctively with practicals etc, but never thought this fully into recreating natural daylight. This is incredible.
I can’t believe we get this level/quality of production, amazing solid explanation with graphics, references to actual movies…. For free?!! This has to be one of my favorite lighting and cinematography videos out there. Super useful, I learned so much from it. Thank you!
Thank you so much! Your feedback means a lot to me and motivates me to keep creating more videos like this. Thanks for watching and supporting the channel!
@@jimmyonfilm Absolutely! I look forward to more of your videos, it’s like going to school but it’s exciting! Also feel free to check my latest videos on my channel as I’m trying to improve my cinematography game for music videos :)
What you said about your power grade and white balance made me realize “Oh ok this guy’s not just another UA-camr. He’s actually a filmmaker who really knows his stuff”. No offense, and nothing against youtubers. But when you’re a long time UA-cam film school student like me you see a lot of the same info from different ppl. You’ve added something new. Cheers to you mate. Thanks for sharing. Great work on this.
I definitely look forward to your videos! You have some great knowledge to share-massive respect. Just out of curiosity, in the setup at the 4:51 timestamp, you mixed two light sources: one at 13,000K and the other at 2,300K, both hitting the same diffusion in front of them. Don’t they basically mix up to output a combined color temperature?
Wow, very clever. This is the most intelligent/original video about a usual topic (lights/color) I've seen on UA-cam in a long time. Outstanding work, Jimmy. 💫
Your videos are amazing bro. I got so inspired subscribed and liked right away. Best tutorial on the lights out there so far I have bumped into. Keep up the good work.
For key light - try out the Smallrig 450b. It's super bright, great color, and has just the punch you need for key in brighter situations. I have the F22x adn F21x. Not the C.
Always wanted a video that could quantify color temperate as a means to paint and add contrast mood to the image. Thank you for making this video, which helps explain this to directors, dps, and more people from production
Fantastic breakdown mate - I remember when learning about colour temp I couldn’t find anything that detailed the diff between light temp and camera temp, you made it easy to understand. Re: Amaran mats, they are so powerful on 1% that I keep a roll of ND in the kit!
Thanks! Really appreciate it! Yeah, so true even at 1 percent especially if I need just a touch of light they’re too bright. If I know I’m gonna need very little light I will automatically put the 2 diffusion layers on to kill the output a bit, but yeah sometimes ND are needed. But in the end better to bright then not bright enough hahahaha. Thanks for you support!
Awesome video! Loved the demo you made. I would like to add that the difference in colour temp shift you mentioned can actually be calculated by a thing called "Mired Shift." Because the amount of colour change in the kelvin temperature isn't distributed quite evenly, but when you convert it to a Mired value, which has a much more even distribution of a colour change for the temperature, you can get a better representation of what kelvin temperature to set to for the desired amount of mired shift. For correcting a light source with a gel, the same calculation is also used to determine the strength of the gel to be used. Manufacturers like Rosco and Lee, both states the amount of mired shift any particular gel correcting the colour temperature of a light source has.
Thanks for this breakdown. Always interested to know where to set white balance when dealing with mixed lighting for contrast. Cool to see how far off from either source you are to where you set wb!
Your channel is not only way more insightful than many other channels on YT, it's also so well presented and has great examples (not only in this video) that make things so much easier to understand. Binge watched all your videos already, subscribed. I hope your channel grows fast and you never loose your love to making great images...*ahem* I meant **cinematic** images! 🙃 Grazie mille!
to achieve that saturated blue can you simply use the RGB function if the light supports it? That seems to be more straightforward than adding gels or calculating color temperatures
Awesome breakdown, thank you very much! Question: how did you know exactly what temperature the stove light was so that you were able to match it exactly? Did you use the app and use the matching feature where you take a photo of the light source, or just do it by eye? Thanks!
Thanks man!!! 🙏🏻 I measured it the same way I measured the temperature of the sun and the sky: using the custom white balance tool from the camera with a white surface :)
Great video and awesome lighting setup! Thanks so much for these tips! I have an off-topic question for you: I don't really know if you shot this with a film or digital camera, but I'm looking for a way to emulate the "jitter" or texture shaking of analog films. . If it had been emulated, how did you manage to do it? Did you use any plugin in particular? Thanks if you answer me!
Hi Federico! Thanks for the support :) I shoot everything digitally but I used my Kodak500T powergrade (you can see a demonstration in the video). The gateweave (jitter)and flicker effects of film are replicated in the powergrade using Camera Shake and flicker effects plug in from resolve, which I managed to get to a very good reproduction of those characteristics of film after some tweaking :)
Love the explanation! What's your opinion on keeping the wb and light source matched in-camera, and then do any coloring in post instead? I know that gets trickier when you have more than one source of light in different temps as you've demonstrated, but what's wrong with matching, say the key light in-camera so it's white, then in post you can adjust the fill light to taste?
Magnific!!, Could you Advice me some gels strong enough to stand powerfulll lights ? , I bought some and they went burnt by the VL300 From Godox, I can't imagine using them with the MD600 , Grettings
Thanks! I normally use Lee gels which are heat resistant but keep in mind that they’re gonna degrade anyway over a few hours of usage. (That’s why they’re sold in rolls) Keeping the gel a little distant from the COB would help extend their lifespan :)
I’m writing a blog post on my process, I hope to publish it soon over at film-match.com. I’ll probably make a video about color science stuff but that’s a whole project :)
Interesting and useful tips here. However, in cases where you had both 13000 and 2300 K sources, like in the dawn/dusk scene, was the camera balanced for daylight or "tungsten" ? Thank you for this excellent clip !
How are you getting the 13000 Kelvin from a light that only goes to 7500k? You say through the app? Nowhere in the product specs does it say 13000k. Great video as always. Your graphics combined with real light setups are awesome!!!
It actually took me a while to discover it cause I was using the lights without the app. Basically with Sidus link app from Aputure in the CCT mode of the light there is a Standard CCT range and an Extended one that goes up to 20000k. So technically what’s happening is the app doing the HSI calculation for you for the extended color temperature values :)
@@jimmyonfilm Thanks for explanation. They really should talk about that on their product info. That is quite an amazing addon to go up to 20000k! Ive always been hesitant with functionality that only works in an app, with apps not always working for whatever reason. I may give this a go at some point if I sell some of my other lights.
very cool! great Video. One minor thing I have tu point out. You've mixed up the terms warm and cool so you speak about a high colortemperature and call it cool for example. This is intuitively right. ut technecly not correct. I like the example of a blacksmith who use the colour of the glowing metal to mesure if its hot enough. firs it is black, there is no glow but as he heat it up, the metal first glow dark red, then orange, then yellow an right before the meltingpoint it shines pure white.
Yeah its interesting, as the hotter something is, its going to be more blue, like a blue dwarf star. But who the hell figured that the lower Kelvin should be the hotter,the higher Kelvin should be the cooler. Its really confusing. Why is it measured like that?:D
@@habocky I think that has to do with our dayly live. We dont see many blue dwarfs or white glowing irons in our day to day buissnes. most warm things we encounter are orange or redish. A lightbulp, fire, the filarments in the toaster etc.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is not a youtuber, this is a professor at this film thing who happens to make time to teach others. Kudos Sir!
Holy shit, I make my living as a DP and just learned so much. I’ve always liked mixing color temperatures instinctively with practicals etc, but never thought this fully into recreating natural daylight. This is incredible.
I can’t believe we get this level/quality of production, amazing solid explanation with graphics, references to actual movies…. For free?!!
This has to be one of my favorite lighting and cinematography videos out there. Super useful, I learned so much from it. Thank you!
Thank you so much! Your feedback means a lot to me and motivates me to keep creating more videos like this. Thanks for watching and supporting the channel!
@@jimmyonfilm Absolutely! I look forward to more of your videos, it’s like going to school but it’s exciting! Also feel free to check my latest videos on my channel as I’m trying to improve my cinematography game for music videos :)
I was looking for this video for a very long time, hands down the best lighting tutorial on every platform
I have never understood color contrast and white balance as I have after watching this video. SIr you are awesome !! Thank You !!!!
What you said about your power grade and white balance made me realize “Oh ok this guy’s not just another UA-camr. He’s actually a filmmaker who really knows his stuff”.
No offense, and nothing against youtubers. But when you’re a long time UA-cam film school student like me you see a lot of the same info from different ppl. You’ve added something new. Cheers to you mate. Thanks for sharing. Great work on this.
Lightning a dark room is the beginning to a masterpiece cinematography 🍁
I love lighting a dark room 😍
great techniques and tips. 🔥🔥🔥
Intro had me hooked! pass the popcorn!🍿
Hahaha great! Thanks!
I definitely look forward to your videos! You have some great knowledge to share-massive respect. Just out of curiosity, in the setup at the 4:51 timestamp, you mixed two light sources: one at 13,000K and the other at 2,300K, both hitting the same diffusion in front of them. Don’t they basically mix up to output a combined color temperature?
Wow, very clever. This is the most intelligent/original video about a usual topic (lights/color) I've seen on UA-cam in a long time. Outstanding work, Jimmy. 💫
Thank you so much! I strive to bring fresh perspectives to common topics, so it means a lot to hear such positive feedback :)
Loved this
Best One so far ! Thank youuuuu
Spectacular tutorial! I feel like I've learned a lot in the last 15 mins :) Thanks a lot Jimmy
Amazing lighting. Your kitchen shots looked like they came out of a big budget movie.
Thanks!!!🙏🏻
@@jimmyonfilm Can I ask what camera and lens you used?
Your videos are amazing bro. I got so inspired subscribed and liked right away. Best tutorial on the lights out there so far I have bumped into. Keep up the good work.
Amazing. Please keep these tutorials coming - they're so insightful.
Really enjoyed the deepdive! Great explanation of the tools you can use when it comes to color temp 🙌
Thanks!!!😊
For key light - try out the Smallrig 450b. It's super bright, great color, and has just the punch you need for key in brighter situations. I have the F22x adn F21x. Not the C.
Always wanted a video that could quantify color temperate as a means to paint and add contrast mood to the image.
Thank you for making this video, which helps explain this to directors, dps, and more people from production
I'm a cinematographer who works primarily with film, and your color match of the 500T is excellent. Congrats.
Thanks, I really appreciate it! I took me so long to understand color science and film profiling, such a fascinating subject 😊
Dude you are awesome. Keep creating!
Fantastic breakdown mate - I remember when learning about colour temp I couldn’t find anything that detailed the diff between light temp and camera temp, you made it easy to understand.
Re: Amaran mats, they are so powerful on 1% that I keep a roll of ND in the kit!
Thanks! Really appreciate it! Yeah, so true even at 1 percent especially if I need just a touch of light they’re too bright. If I know I’m gonna need very little light I will automatically put the 2 diffusion layers on to kill the output a bit, but yeah sometimes ND are needed. But in the end better to bright then not bright enough hahahaha. Thanks for you support!
Awesome video! Loved the demo you made.
I would like to add that the difference in colour temp shift you mentioned can actually be calculated by a thing called "Mired Shift."
Because the amount of colour change in the kelvin temperature isn't distributed quite evenly, but when you convert it to a Mired value, which has a much more even distribution of a colour change for the temperature, you can get a better representation of what kelvin temperature to set to for the desired amount of mired shift.
For correcting a light source with a gel, the same calculation is also used to determine the strength of the gel to be used. Manufacturers like Rosco and Lee, both states the amount of mired shift any particular gel correcting the colour temperature of a light source has.
Very useful and well-laid out info. Thank you sir!
Great video ! Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I really appreciate it. You’re a skilled cinematographer
Thank you Jimmy! I discovered your channel through this video and the quality of your explanation and cinematography is amazing.
Thanks man!! 😊
Thanks for this breakdown. Always interested to know where to set white balance when dealing with mixed lighting for contrast. Cool to see how far off from either source you are to where you set wb!
Thanks! Yeah I was surprised, when I first discovered that I needed to be that extreme to render that contrast. Thanks for the support!
Your videos are so informative! Thank you for sharing. 🙏
I’ve been wanting to level up my lighting, thank you for making this video!!! 🔥
Your channel is not only way more insightful than many other channels on YT, it's also so well presented and has great examples (not only in this video) that make things so much easier to understand. Binge watched all your videos already, subscribed. I hope your channel grows fast and you never loose your love to making great images...*ahem* I meant **cinematic** images! 🙃
Grazie mille!
Thank you so much for making this kind of videos. They are so insightful and it makes me more and more interested in film and cinematography ❤
Love this. ✨
Cool, detailed and precise explanation!
Big thanks to you!😎
to achieve that saturated blue can you simply use the RGB function if the light supports it? That seems to be more straightforward than adding gels or calculating color temperatures
Awesome breakdown, thank you very much! Question: how did you know exactly what temperature the stove light was so that you were able to match it exactly? Did you use the app and use the matching feature where you take a photo of the light source, or just do it by eye? Thanks!
Thanks man!!! 🙏🏻 I measured it the same way I measured the temperature of the sun and the sky: using the custom white balance tool from the camera with a white surface :)
@@jimmyonfilmahh, that makes sense. Have you ever used a grey card or do you always use white?
Great video and awesome lighting setup! Thanks so much for these tips! I have an off-topic question for you: I don't really know if you shot this with a film or digital camera, but I'm looking for a way to emulate the "jitter" or texture shaking of analog films. . If it had been emulated, how did you manage to do it? Did you use any plugin in particular? Thanks if you answer me!
Hi Federico! Thanks for the support :) I shoot everything digitally but I used my Kodak500T powergrade (you can see a demonstration in the video). The gateweave (jitter)and flicker effects of film are replicated in the powergrade using Camera Shake and flicker effects plug in from resolve, which I managed to get to a very good reproduction of those characteristics of film after some tweaking :)
@@jimmyonfilm Omg thanks a lot! Keep it up! i'll try 💪💪
Finally somebody that understands color temperature.
☺️🙏🏻
What is your camera settings when shooting at night?
Love the explanation! What's your opinion on keeping the wb and light source matched in-camera, and then do any coloring in post instead? I know that gets trickier when you have more than one source of light in different temps as you've demonstrated, but what's wrong with matching, say the key light in-camera so it's white, then in post you can adjust the fill light to taste?
This single video was better than 2 years of film school
Thank you so much for this bro, such a valuable lesson
Intro went absolutely crazy! 🔥
really well put together! I've been experimenting with mixed temp lighting recently and this really helped me understand it better :)
Thanks!!! 🙏🏻
Magnific!!, Could you Advice me some gels strong enough to stand powerfulll lights ? , I bought some and they went burnt by the VL300 From Godox, I can't imagine using them with the MD600 , Grettings
Thanks! I normally use Lee gels which are heat resistant but keep in mind that they’re gonna degrade anyway over a few hours of usage. (That’s why they’re sold in rolls) Keeping the gel a little distant from the COB would help extend their lifespan :)
please make a video about the process of emulating the 500T stock! Great work!
I’m writing a blog post on my process, I hope to publish it soon over at film-match.com. I’ll probably make a video about color science stuff but that’s a whole project :)
@@jimmyonfilm amazing! Looking forward to the blog post😀
Very good and precise video!
🙏🏻☺️
Thank you mate, amazing video 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Thanks man!!!😊
beautiful work thanks for sharing this
Thanks man ♥♥
Interesting and useful tips here.
However, in cases where you had both 13000 and 2300 K sources, like in the dawn/dusk scene, was the camera balanced for daylight or "tungsten" ?
Thank you for this excellent clip !
Thanks :) the camera was set to 5600k😊
@@jimmyonfilm Thank you Jimmy !
I suggest you add a blend mode "screen" to the overlay transitions in your video
Thank you so much ❤ subbed!
This is great information, Thanks!
great video... Needed this today
Thanks!! Great to hear!!
Great video :) thx
great video thank you
How are you getting the 13000 Kelvin from a light that only goes to 7500k? You say through the app? Nowhere in the product specs does it say 13000k. Great video as always. Your graphics combined with real light setups are awesome!!!
He said the light is full RGB, so maybe he figured out what blue value that would be on the Kelvin scale, and presented it that way.
It actually took me a while to discover it cause I was using the lights without the app. Basically with Sidus link app from Aputure in the CCT mode of the light there is a Standard CCT range and an Extended one that goes up to 20000k. So technically what’s happening is the app doing the HSI calculation for you for the extended color temperature values :)
@@jimmyonfilm Thanks for explanation. They really should talk about that on their product info. That is quite an amazing addon to go up to 20000k! Ive always been hesitant with functionality that only works in an app, with apps not always working for whatever reason. I may give this a go at some point if I sell some of my other lights.
Thanks 🙏
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Very nice video. Loved it.
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wowowowowow immediate sub from me. such a wonderful breakdown!!
Great to hear!!!🙏🏻❤️
Wow gracias 💡
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8:20 this information was what i wanted to find but couldn't
Great
Good stuff till I saw the light in the shot! Lol! U called it out, good move... super cool! Thnx!
Nice.
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Your blacks look so gray. That confuses me.
very cool! great Video. One minor thing I have tu point out. You've mixed up the terms warm and cool so you speak about a high colortemperature and call it cool for example. This is intuitively right. ut technecly not correct. I like the example of a blacksmith who use the colour of the glowing metal to mesure if its hot enough. firs it is black, there is no glow but as he heat it up, the metal first glow dark red, then orange, then yellow an right before the meltingpoint it shines pure white.
Thanks for the support! And thanks for the clarification I wasn’t aware of it ☺️
Yeah its interesting, as the hotter something is, its going to be more blue, like a blue dwarf star. But who the hell figured that the lower Kelvin should be the hotter,the higher Kelvin should be the cooler. Its really confusing. Why is it measured like that?:D
@@habocky I think that has to do with our dayly live. We dont see many blue dwarfs or white glowing irons in our day to day buissnes. most warm things we encounter are orange or redish. A lightbulp, fire, the filarments in the toaster etc.
Linus is swedish, not american! 🇸🇪
I meant the American cinematographer magazine 😊
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