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WHITE BALANCE
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Is all light created equal?
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How does your eye work?
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How does a camera lens work?
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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.
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“Cooler” and “Warmer”
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“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:
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“Color temperature”
Temperature Light Source
1000-2000 K Candlelight2500-3500 K Tungsten Bulb (household variety)3000-4000 K Sunrise/Sunset (clear sky)
4000-5000 K Fluorescent Lamps5000-5500 K Electronic Flash5000-6500 K Daylight with Clear Sky (sun overhead)6500-8000 K Moderately Overcast Sky
9000-10000 K Shade or Heavily Overcast Sky
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“Which part of the flame is hottest?”
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Incandescent Light
Redder light = 3200˚K
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Fluorescent Light
Bluer Light= 4000˚-5000˚K
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Sunlight (on a clear day)
Bluer Light= 5600K
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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 thecolors in the image will be off balance.”
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White balance camera settings
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Which shot is correctly white balanced?
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Incorrect
Which shot is correctly white balanced?
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Incorrect Correct
Which shot is correctly white balanced?
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AWB
Creative White Balance
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2800 K
Creative White Balance
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10,000K
Creative White Balance
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Remember:Always white balance BEFORE you
shoot!
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Creative White Balance
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