How Cameras and Light LIE About Food
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- Опубліковано 8 чер 2024
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Study showing different light conditions might lead people to eat under-done turkey (not free): jfoodprotection.org/doi/10.43...
Food photographer Christina Peters: www.christinapeters.com/index
Peters' food photography blog: foodphotographyblog.com/
Experiment on how color temperature affects diners: lib.dr.iastate.edu/etd/11369/
Chowhound thread where servers talk about steaks losing their pink color outside: www.chowhound.com/post/steak-...
Meat lighting guide: animalscience.psu.edu/extensi...
Binging with Babish steak video: • Steak | Basics with Ba...
Eater video on Peter Luger Steak House: • Dry-Aged Steak and Lam... - Навчання та стиль
Q: Wait, yellow and blue make gray? I thought they make green!
Q: Wait, yellow and blue are complementary colors? I thought it was blue and orange!
A: The answer to both of these questions is the same. This video is about light/screens, not pigment. Light is additive, pigment is subtractive. The rules are different. In subtractive color mixing (like blending paints), blue and yellow make green. In additive color mixing (like blending colors on an LCD screen), blending blue and yellow will get you something on the grayscale, depending (I think) on brightness and shade. That's literally what I show you at 2:43 - I made a blue matte and a yellow matte, set their opacity to 50 percent, and then overlaid them. The result is gray. (Or, grayish, because the footage of me shining through is throwing it off, and also because I don't think the shades of yellow and blue I picked were perfectly complementary.) Blue and yellow are considered complementary in the additive RGB color model, while blue and orange are considered complementary in the subtractive CMY model (or RYB). You could argue that I should have explained this distinction in the video, and you could be right. When you make videos like this, you have to make judgment calls about which levels of nuance deserve the run time. If you don't make those calls, the video will end up 10 hours long.
Q: Did you edit your footage wrong at 1:40? It looks like the light is going cooler at 5500ºK and warmer at 2700ºK. Isn't that backwards?!
A: Nope, I didn't edit the footage wrong. You're seeing what really happened. Here's what I THINK is going on, and I would appreciate if someone more knowledgeable could weigh in. As I mentioned in the video, incandescent (i.e. really hot) objects actually emit blue light at higher temperatures than yellow or orange light. So, there is a context in which people use "color temperature" to describe actual thermal temperature. This is referred to as "black body radiation" - the colors emitted by a theoretical, idealized black object at certain very high temperatures, given in degrees Kelvin. That color temperature scale is, essentially, the inverse of the color temperature scale often used by filmmakers and lighting designers. In the world of normal human experience, blue is the color of ice (or the moon) and yellow/orange is the color of fire (or the sun), so we use Kelvin to signify that subjective experience of color we all have. This cheap Chinese light I'm using is, I'm guessing, labeled with actual color temperature (i.e. black body radiation), not color temperature in the art school sense of the term. But I'm honestly not sure!
Q: Are you sure that movies these days tend to be blue? Didn't you just pick two examples that were snow scenes?
A: In retrospect, those were bad examples, for that very reason. But I am hardly the first person to observe that blue punctuated with orange is a very popular color scheme in Hollywood these days. It's literally the first tip offered by this Adobe guide for "cinematic" color grading: blogs.adobe.com/creativecloud/cinematic-color-grading-in-adobe-photoshop-pt-1/ This is hardly my area of expertise, but one theory for the origin of this trend I've read is that digital effects are easier to render in this scheme, for reasons I didn't understand when I read that article.
Q: Are you sure that movies in the early 2000s were green? Didn't The Matrix use green for the specific purpose of creating a distinct environment for the matrix as opposed to the real world, which was more blue?
A: Yes, that's absolutely why The Matrix did that, but I think that movie was so huge and influential that a lot of filmmakers then imitated that green color scheme to make things look high-tech. Where I remember seeing it most was in the music videos of the time: ua-cam.com/video/A48VUvB6kWE/v-deo.html [EDIT] Oh yeah, and Fight Club. Fight Club is super green.
Q: Are you sure this whole "steak looks overdone in natural light thing" is really a thing?
A: Here's a comment from BlizKrieg that I previously had pinned here: "I'm a server in a restaraunt and I have this problem all the damn time. I work at a Racing and Card Club in FLORIDA. A very sunny place with very large windows to look at the grehounds racing outside. Now in the kitchen we can see how our prime rib is cooked perfectly rare to med rare. But then we take it into the dining room with so much natural light and say it's way overcooked. I always knew it was the lighting, but then the customers looked at me like I was stupid/wrong."
Q: Is natural light always "cool"?
A: No. This is one of those layers of nuance I decided to leave out. But certainly the color of sunlight is affected by atmospheric conditions and by time of day. In dusty air or at dawn/dusk, for example, sunlight can be warmer. That's one reason why photographers and filmmakers love to shoot around sunrise and sunset - they call it "golden hour."
Adam Ragusea You should do videos on smoking, meats that is.
Congrats on 400K Adam!
I really wish that last question you did directly address tbh... :/
Post the answer to your exams!
ua-cam.com/video/uYbdx4I7STg/v-deo.html is a FANTASTIC video that talks about the effects of RGB light, the human eye, and how camera sensors work, with some really cool demos.
He made this video because someone told him he over cooked his steak
Anxiety 100
so what? he is right
This is the level of spite I aspire towards
i would do the same on his shoes, youtube is full of people who need to get a foot in their mouth
or the whole video is an advert for skill share course?? :P
This is why I season my photons first, not my eyes.
Damn that's a good one 😂
😂😂😂
First time this joke has actually been funny and, in a way, correct.
This immediately made me think of aggressively shaking salt in my eyes
Choo choo train
I love how this chanel slowly has turned to a science show
food science, the best kind of science!
@@Kai_Squared Food science is so much fun until they make you do math. At least according to my friend who took a food science class as an elective.
@@TheSpecialJ11 but maths is fun :p but then i'm asian
@@Kai_Squared I'm Asian and I can't provide an agreeing response to that claim.
@@Kai_Squared Math was never fun
I'm a server in a restaraunt and I have this problem all the damn time. I work at a Racing and Card Club in FLORIDA. A very sunny place with very large windows to look at the grehounds racing outside. Now in the kitchen we can see how our prime rib is cooked perfectly rare to med rare. But then we take it into the dining room with so much natural light and say it's way overcooked. I always knew it was the lighting, but then the customers looked at me like I was stupid/wrong.
BlizKrieg gggg
wow thats sad...
"bitch I work here now do you know more about steaks here or do I "
If you are in Florida you should start running instead of watching youtube videos. No offence. #Hurricane
@@frederiklynge519 What makes you think that he hasn't done anything to prepare?
*Blue is ice cold sub-zero, red is flaming hot cheetos, and true color is Adam Ragusea; the man who makes the best food on UA-cam.*
@Pablasoo Music the existence of Babish proves you wrong. Adam and Babish are on the same level ngl
Food wishes with Chef John?
CHEF JOHN 4EVA
Why not both?
Gordon Ramsay does not have a youtube channel (kappa)
*why i season my cameras not my food*
*why i season my cow before slaughtering it*
considering a good look can make the food more appealing thats not even that far fetched. eat in well lit warm colored areas lol
Soy Cereal why i season my pc not my camera
Why i season my eyes not my cameras
-_-
If your outside and hold your eyes closed for a little once
You open them you can see how much blue light there is until your eyes balances it out
truth^^^
Always wonder why there was so much blue light when I opened my eyes but this video answer that so thanks for the video
Ah, but there's actually just as much blue as red in skylight, even though the sky is blue. All colors are effectively there equally, but with a pinch more green. What's actually happening here is your eyes are adjusting to the color of your eyelids. "rose colored glasses" kinda like shining light through your finger.
Your eyelids only let red light in, your eyes adjust to red, and are overwhelmed by blue when you get the full spectrum
Edit: source: years of experience lighting in the film and TV industry
3:07 I thought Adam was about to start roasting babish for a second
Same. I can't stand the colour grading on Babish's show.
@@jiraph52 I love Babish!
but like the color grading is always hella odd on his basics videos.
Babish vs. Italians round 2
Babby also has Vinny, a former filmographer and editor for the BATK channel.
Rick Carbajal can agree I love his channel but it’s so weird
Adam having wayyy too much fun with his videos lately...
And i like it!
Hi
Same lol. It's cute 😂
WE ALL LIKE IT
Aaaaaand actually yes
Yes, his videos are so informative yet short - concise. Very nice Adam.
If I bend the light enough... will my food finally stop being so burnt?
put it near black hole
So I can blame the light for why I look like an uglier Frankenstein?
waaaaa
OMG FRANKENSTEIN IS THE DOCTOR NOT THE MONSTER!
@@andrijadenic7366 the doctor was probably pretty ugly too tho
You could also blame it for you not getting into smash
Ever read the book, Dr. Frankenstein was actually really ill and exhausted while preparing/ working on his Monster, so both is right to be honest
I love you, Adam. Your no-nonsense approach to cooking is everything Ive taught myself over the years through trial and error. I've learned, but constantly nod in that annoyingly knowing way three or four times per upload. Please, never stop, professor.
I wish this video was a thing when I was in high school. I used to operate these old cameras for my school’s morning announcements and I remember having to figure out color temperature to make the hosts look warmer and more welcoming. Plus white balancing every morning was a pain, but I still look back on it fondly. Thanks for the video, Adam!
"Lauren could you do me a favor."
"Sure, what?"
"Carry these plates of meat around the house for me."
"Only if I get to eat them when you're done."
I'd like to think that's how the conversation went.
pretty much!
"Please parade this plate of meat around the house and yard"
"Uhhhh" (her face at 5:51)
Can you do a video about pancakes?
@All Day Son fuck you
@@josephmarchyok2947 fuck you
keep a chain going
@@user-xg4rt3sk1l That was my intention, it didn't work tho, lol
All Day Son no are you 6 years old? Or are you a stupid dumbass
This channel is about to have everything. I'm now learning a little about food photography.
Book mark!
Or just photography in general tbh. Light seriously matters in photography, along with colour...
so glad I subbed to this guy. Channel keeps on getting better and better.
Adam you’re channel is incredibly beneficial for my life. I’ve lost a decent amount of weight using your recipes for food prep and combining some things I know. The scientific aspects are very interesting and unlike any other channel in the platform. Keep up the good work.
lost weight...eating MY food? OK, well, glad to hear it!
@@aragusea I can actually see why! Even if the things you make sometimes are caloric I feel there is no doubt it is nutritious and filling. Processed / junk food may have the same amount of calories but lacks the nutrients and satiation which leads to over eating. It be a great video about how people who eat less nutritious food/ processed tend to over eat as their body is desperately trying to get enough vitamins and causes excess hunger.
Dang, who'd have thought subbing to a food channel a few months ago would bring cool videos like this. Awesome
Adam: forgets to include white wine
Me: *sad white wine noises*
White whine
Oh shut up
Not a problem. Not too proud of that 😂
Last time I was this early, Adam hadn’t OD’d on White wine
Your like an at home alton brown. I like that you back your statements with facts instead of just claiming things with no evidence.
you're*
Alton Brown actually brought good eats back after feeling threatened by the ragusea
I dont think you understand how facts work.
It started with the vinegar leg on the right...., then screaming vegetables in soup, and now repeating cooking show! Medical show... cooking show! Medical show
The city I live in, recently changed some street lights from a very light blue color to a warm yellow one
When I first walked into the new lights I was stunned at how beautiful it looks
my job (5guys) is transitioning from warm to cool and i'm getting the opposite effect.
a few of our franchise group's stores have fully swapped over already and they feel horrible. i feel like being in arizona makes it worse too, because the sun's so harsh and the cooler lighting just looks so depressing. and on dreary days it's like the light inside is sadder than outside, instead of feeling cozy.
@@Ocelot80524 man that sucks
It must feel like beeing at the freaking dentist all the time
It's also kinda hard to explain this to someone that never really thought about it
Your channel is amazing. You answer the questions before I even ask them myself, before I knew I needed to know that!!!! Love it!
adam please make a video with babish, my two favorite food shows together, it would be awesome.
It would a better crossover than avengers endgame
@Erik Lerström everyone under 13: *confused screaming*
That'd be really noice
@Estefanía how exactly is he boring?
Bro I’m 14 and confused screaming😎
Just found your channel and binged on the Science Playlist! Love how they are backed by resources and specialists.👍
This is an amazing informational video! As a culinary arts student, I always find myself running into trouble photographing food for my professor, and now I know why. I am definetly going to play around with lighting and watch this video dozens of times to learn how to take the perfect picture.
Also, I hope you don't mind if I reference you in a quick summary write for my class, becuase this is a very interesting topic and it'll kill in class!
Colour correcting in eyes is incredible, I once closed my eyes in full sun on a beach in Italy, might've napped for a minute or two (no idea), opened the eyes after clouds covered the sun and everything was so unbelievably blue that I almost panicked something was wrong
I am really coming to appreciate the knowledge that you are sharing, and the way that you are doing so, more-and-more with each video that I watch... this including some of the older that were there before I found your channel.
Great reminder for video editing. It's easy for me to forget to take that extra step. Thanks Adam!
As a teacher in arts and teaching this stuff to my students, Adam you are nailing this!
I have a green tint on my glasses and one of the things I noticed first is how well done food looks even tho im cooking it to the same temperature I used to.
This is so interesting!! I love how you mix these kind of videos with your cooking ones, keep it up! :)
You're the only UA-camr I would consider supporting via sponsors. I love how you integrate them to your videos
7:50 Adam be spitting bars here
I'll take the homely feel of Adam's videos over the "cinematic" cooking channels any time.
McWelly it’s cause he is down to earth, he uses his home kitchen, and even shows his family. Much more enjoyable.
He cooks like we do. With lazy shortcuts.
Yeah, he's more relatable that way.
While others cook in their studio kitchen with all kinds of ingridientsand tools Adam uses his own kitchen and buys his ingridients off of local stores, struggles to find a good mozerella for his pizza so he uses the ones he can find, just like an avarage person.
Same goes for an old hobby of mine. When you're keeping fish, you have to test water. The most popular method of this is using a liquid kit.
The kind of light you use can shift the color of the mixture, and lead to off measurements. Naturally when I pointed this out and shared a video of me holding a vial against the reading chart and turning on different lamps with different temp bulbs in them - changing the shade of the mixture and shifting the reading up and down the chart scale, people dismissed it and said it was your fault if you used the wrong light to get a reading. Ego is #1 in fish keeping, easily the most toxic community I've been apart of. You like something, so you defend it no matter what. Your way or no way.
Went a bit off topic, but fuck it; no one if going to see this comment anyway lmao
I read your comment - it was interesting lol
I find a lot of hobby communities are fillied with boomers with an ego, but without the brains behind it. Emotional, jealous and very toxic people
Toxic community? Ugh, try being vegan in a animal meat loving world 😂
yeah, i noticed the fish keeping community can be pretty toxic at times. its definitely not all of them, but a good chunk. like jesus, having colored gravel doesnt automatically mean you dont do your research and you kill all your fish and have no idea what youre doing
Adam, I have been watching your videos a lot lately and have learned so much. I appreciate you teaching different subjects. it keeps things fresh for me. Keep up the GREAT work!! thank you!!
Hope you don't run out of these explorations. They're great.
Amazing video Adam, I can tell you really put time and effort into researching and planning out your videos. This one especially really hit home, since often times me and my family go out for Dinner and sometimes the steak looks rarer than it tastes in the dark windowless building that we'd be in. I really appreciate you uploading this kinds of videos and it really inspires me to think a little more about what I eat.
This was super informative. This is the first time I've been exposed to these ideas. I need to learn more about photography.
This video is the smoothest ad I've ever seen. I ain't even mad.
Easily one of the most well researched and well made videos I’ve ever seen
Adam, you’re the best! I love videos like this that no one else is doing in your category
Thank you Adam, I am so glad I found out about your channel, and I really like how much it has evolved.
It shows how much you love what you are doing.
You deserve so many more subscribers
Congrats on 400k subs Adam! You deserve it.
I love it when Adam gets playful. I prefer warm light over blue light Because blue light on meat makes me think of an episode about Michael Jackson's autopsy. It's gross. Love you Adam as always.
Blue light gives me grays anatomy ptsd, its on every tv in my house I cant escape!
I actually like to season the lighting for extra detail 👍
your videos are very informative and well researched! loving this channel
When I shot food photography for my last job I loved using natural light in the restaurant. I would always adjust my white balance and color temps in post.
I worked in a restaurant, and the dining room had warm lighting. Made most of the food and people look better. The major disadvantage was well done food was often sent back because people thought it was still a bit pink. One was sent back 5 times, I cooked and pressed every bit of juice and color out of that brown charred wonderful cut of steak and double checked the waiter knew to explain to the customer about the lighting and it still was still sent back to me and all I had left was magic, with the waiter watching me, after I replated all of the remade sides yet again I put the steak down and waved my hands over the plate and said "now, NOW! it's Perfect!, Muhahaha! hurry before the magic fades!" It wasn't sent back. I am not sure if the customer was finally happy, the customer gave up or the waiter explained that it was probably not wise to send the steak back to the cook, he didn't seem sane.
Artificial light: *exists*
Me: *wait, that’s illegal*
Masahiro Sakurai what lmao
Amazing video! What a great introduction to colour theory and imaging. Great work!
Man the quality of your content keeps getting better and better. I’m so glad I found our channel. I learn so much!
I post my dinner on Instagram every day for various reasons, but this certainly helped me get some good ideas for how to take better food photos!
I need a 10 hour loop of the “Cooking show, medical show” thing.
Excellent video. Food photography is amazing-the things that they do to stuff that is putatively food in order to make it appetizing are extreme!
Incredibly informative video, food related or not
Thanks Adam!! Love it
I will say that I prefer using daylight lights (5600k) and correctly set white balance for it, then warm it up a bit in post if necessary, for flavor.
With the advances in digital filmmaking, and especially 4K, I tend to shoot everything fairly neutrally, then grade it in post. As long as the exposure is correct, shoot flat and keep your options! That said, daylight balanced lighting does tend to be a bit crisper, to me.
3:08 I'm sensing a collab is coming soon, and I will TOTALLY LOVE IT
I JUST CAN'T BELIEVE YOU HAVEN'T REACHED EVEN 1M SUBSCRIBERS YET. IT IS SO UNFAIR! THE EFFORT AND WORK YOU PUT IN THESE VIDEOS... HOW INFORMATIVE THEY ARE.
Congratulations on reaching 400,000 subscribers! What a journey!
Adam Ragusea: Why I season my lighting and not my meat
René Descartes writes "Meditations on First Philosophy"
-1641, colorized.
Minor nitpick: the blue color of that flame isn't from incandescence, it's from electrons changing configuration during the reaction. A 6000K flame would easily melt steel; a butane torch clearly cannot.
This is independently a great, well-explained photography video. You deserve to have 10x the subscribers!
Lies lies LIES! Everyone knows what makes a meal look tastier: white wine.
Lights
Camera
-action- *_SCREENS_*
Love this video. Excellent. Lots of hard work into it.
Dude I don’t know where I saw your channel from, but you’re quickly becoming one of my favorite content creators. All of this food knowledge and science is akin to Good Eats and I’m loving everything you put out to us.
4:07 “I always warm up my food images”
Me: Yeah I always heat up my food in the microwave
"The screens in our lives are profoundly warping our perception of reality." ~ Ragusea, '19.
My first non-recipe Adam video! Enjoyed it!
Man ur my fave food channel as of now. gracias!
1:44 at first i thought that i was hearing siri
that's why i season my camera, NOT the food.
What he mentioned in a second on the other video got a chance for a full explanation video. Love this.
I absolutely love your channel! Please keep up the hard work and research! You're doing an amazing job!
Why I season my light photons not my food
8:18 So..you're admitting you're a cereal killer ?
Underrated comment, laughed so hard I broke into a coughing fit
Great, informative video, Adam. Thank you!
Super exciting topic. Thanks Adam.
Love from Vienna.
Adam referenced Babish - The 1st step of the collaboration process has been taken.
My God... It's happening. The glee. It's building.
Oh they already know each other lol
FlyTkSociety how do you know
@@DisturbedDood119 Babish used to comment on his videos.
@@clydu91 Which videos? Never seen a Babish comment here before.
@@itsmike7711 I believe he made a comment on the oven baked french fries video.
This is why I add white wine to my light, NOT my food
Adam you videos are so good. Keep them coming!
Super helpful. Thank you.
Remember when steak is green its rotten
Well when you visit a restaurant, it's more about experience rather than food.
Good video. As a serious amateur photographer and astronomer, I agree that most consumers don't know their cameras. As you said the smartphones have limited range with their photos. The dedicated cameras on the other hand have a "Raw" function that you can easily manipulate the color temperature in Photoshop. Most consumers shoot in jpg which is a compressed 8-bit function. You cannot recover the good details lost in the jpg mode. Most of us serious photographers or astrophotographers deal raw in images up to the 32 bit depth per color. Color temperature applies to star colors as well. I started in photography in 1968 as a kid with a darkroom. I learned from the pros about shooting food since during the film days. One pro used colored Crisco to to make an ice cream ad made under the hot lights with the color correcting gels. He used pro film made for studio shots for this. A lot of time and effort went into making that ice cream shot.
What I love about your channel, is showing experts they are human. Not just some snobbish out of touch beings but, regular human beings with problems.
I felt uncomfortable every time he switched to the blue one
why i rehash month old jokes instead of saying something interesting
Brilliant lol
Congrats on almost 400k!
Like ur touch on the “simulacra” experience.
Why is everybody loves Raymond guy telling me about food lighting?
??
The way Adam uses those video interviews has always felt a little weird to me for some reason, and I've finally figured out why. A lot of material on UA-cam does video commentary (visibly pausing, commenting, continuing) or conversations, but Adam uses segments as quotes. Just like you would with an academic paper, taking sources and quoting them in chunks or as parts of the sentences you write... Its like he's a college professor or something.
This was so, so informative... Thank you.
I work on the electrical engineering of buildings. And unless the client hired an interior designer, I usually have to specify the type of lights. Restaurants usually have warmer lights and a controls package that allows dimming and color change