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White balance: Beyond natural light

White balance: Beyond natural light

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White balance: Beyond natural light

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- We introduced you to the Kelvin scale in the last movie, but it's used an artificial light, too. Different light sources give off different colors of light. Tungsten and daylight balanced bulbs are the two most common. The house lights in the studio are daylight balanced or 5,500 Kelvin. The camera is set to the daylight setting. Let's turn on this studio light and turn down the house lights. These bulbs are also daylights, so the color still looks good. Now, this light has tungsten bulbs. Tungsten is warmer light, about 2,500. Check out how orange my face looks. It's not because the light is orange, it's because the camera is still set for daylight. Now, let's switch to a camera that is set for tungsten and notice that the daylight balanced bulbs now appear blue. Let's turn this light off to get a better look at how the light from the tungsten bulbs appear. Your camera has settings for different light sources.…

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