White Balance vs Color Temperature | Film Lighting Techniques
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- Опубліковано 2 сер 2024
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So what is the relationship between color temperature and white balance?
Today, we're going to be discussing what is white balance and how does it and the color temperature in lighting interact with each other? We’ll discuss the white balance meaning and demonstrate what happens when you manipulate your white balance and color temperatures to achieve different looks.
Understanding white balance, as well as the color temperature scale, gives you tremendous control over the look of your videos. Today we explain what happens when you change your white balance and give you some white balance examples of light sources at different kelvin values.
When we think about the scale, we need to look at color temperature in kelvin values. We can start at lower, warmer values (2500k) and go all the way up to 9500K. We also explore the primary color temperatures (5600K Daylight and 3200K Tungsten) which are most applicable to photography and video.
We demonstrate discuss several different light sources, including: candles and fire, incandescent globes, tungsten lights, sunlight, LED lights, fluorescent lights, overcast sun, TV's and monitors.
Next week we'll be discussing how you can use white balance and color temperature creatively to create unique looks and moods for your scenes.
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Best explanation. Thank you!
Our pleasure! Thank you! 😊
fantastic, informative, easy to understand, quick. A+!
Thanks Bruce!
Great video!!
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Easily can understand ❤️
Thanks you 🙏🏼 I’m so pleased you enjoyed the video 😊
~ Dave.
Firstly thanks for making good informative video. Liked & subscribed
My suggestion @3:30 min if you have placed 3 images side by side for few seconds to compare that would have been great, so that viewer's can compare rather thank playing back and forth.
Do a video on how to shoot at dark scenes without noise and grains & also perfect exposure.
Thanks A Ajay, that’s a good note and would have made the comparison clearer. Thanks for your suggestion!
Also, thank you for the video request, I’ll se what I can do :)
Thanks for this video! Just subscribed. Question: for self-portrait photography & UA-cam videos would you recommend bi-color lights or can I get away with daylights and adjusting temp in my camera/photoshop/final cut pro? I’m going back and fourth on this because daylights are pretty inexpensive! Thanks
Hi Aja! Welcome to the tribe!
Great question! How I go about it, is that I use daylight balanced lights for my main light sources when I'm prioritising getting the most output from the light (because on bi-color lights, only half the LED's are daylight, so it typically halves your output). If I want a warmer look, I then gel those daylight lights using CTO gel.
This would probably be my recommendation - get daylight balanced lights and gel them when needed to warm them up. You can pickup CTO gels in different strengths in this pack: kit.co/CreativePathFilms/our-studio-production-kit/lee-filters-lighting
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When I buy smaller lights for fill lights, hair lights, background lights or other smaller applications, that's when I tend to select bi-color lights, when my priority is speed and flexibility over output.
I'll be doing a video on using gels and their effects in the new year so keep an eye out for that one!
In the meantime you can could checkout this video on Tungsten lights, which has a small section on CTB conversion gels @08:20 (ua-cam.com/video/TW90KmZ7Tfo/v-deo.html).
You need CTO with daylight lights, but they are essentially doing the same thing, only the other way round (CTB = 3200k Tungsten -> 5600k daylight, CTO = 5600k daylight -> 3200K tungsten).
Hope that helps (and makes sense!).
Have a wonderful new year ahead!
@@CreativePathFilms good answer
Question for you! I have a few ambient tungsten lights in my setup, a bi color key light and natural light that gets in even with blinds down (can’t buy blackouts). I have no idea what to do with the white balance here. Should I set the key light to match the tungsten temperature?
It’s hard to give an exact recommendation without seeing what your working with, but here’s something you could try.
In mixed lighting situations like that, I would tend to split the difference and set the WB to around 4700k. Your tungsten ambients (household practicals I presume) will still retain some warmth and your daylight spill will be cooler, but not too blue.
Then play with the CT of your key to find the sweet spot you like for the look. Play around with it.
I would probably go neutral be default (4700 to match WB), but depending on the feeling you want the scene to have you could go slightly warmer (5600k), slight cooler (3000-3200k).
Play with it, see what feels right. Let me know how you go!
Will do! Thank you!
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We'll see what we can do :)
@@CreativePathFilms plz that will be a great help
now i got it better
Thanks again! Glad to hear this video helped you understand better 😊
I have one question....please let me know if I want to shoot one horror kind of short movie during night but I have all warm lights like show lamps soft box with warm lights ..I do have white led lights as well. But I want my clips to look blue for scary emotion ..So should I keep the white balance to cooler side..Or keep it 4500 k and then set it post prod to cool...please help me with it..
Great question, if you would like your LED’s to be cooler and your warmer lights to be neutral, set your white balance to around 3200K.
If you would like your warmer lights to be cool as well, try setting it to 2500-2700. Your LED’s will then be quite blue and you’re warm lights will be slightly cool as well. Have a play, see what you like!
You can make some adjustments in post as well if you want to tweak it further :)
I hope that helps!
@@CreativePathFilms Woahh thanks alot....you are a life saver...And I know i am going to learn so many things from you in these regards..please keep posting and helping beginners like me..Huge respect and love. Thanks a ton for your videos and Guidance🙏
@@ABArtandInfo thank you for the love 🙏🏼 always more then happy to help. If you ever have any questions or if there’s something you’re struggling with, don’t hesitate to reach out 😊
One more thing, I’d suggest using the cooler of the lights (LED) as your backlight and your warmer lights as your key for a horror style look. 👻
@@CreativePathFilms aye aye captain...wil for sure follow these great tips....thanks a ton again..🥰🥰