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44 EXPLAINING | COLOR
COLOR TEMPERATURE
Light is rarely neutral in color and often has a color bias that
can affect your photos—a sunset, for example, casts a reddish light,
whereas a clear blue sky creates light with a bluish tinge. The amount
of bias between red and blue is measured on the Kelvin (K) scale,
which indicates the color temperature of light: the bluer the light, ▼ The color temperature
of light varies throughout
the higher its Kelvin value. You can correct the color bias of light the day, depending on the
height of the sun in the sky
by using your camera’s White Balance function. and the weather conditions.
TONE TEMPERATURE TYPE OF LIGHT EXAMPLE
12,000K CLEAR SKY IN SNOW
OR OPEN SHADE IN
AMBIENT LIGHT
10,000K HAZY SKY LIGHT OR
OPEN SHADE
COOL LIGHT 7,000K A HEAVILY OVERCAST SKY
A CLOUDY DAY
6,000K
ELECTRONIC FLASH
5,500–6,000K
5,500K DAYLIGHT AT MIDDAY
5,000K SUNLIGHT
4,200K COOL FLUORESCENT LIGHT
3,750K A PHOTO LAMP
WARM LIGHT 3,500K SUNSET/SUNRISE
3,000K WARM FLUORESCENT LIGHT
2,900K A 100-WATT TUNGSTEN
LIGHT BULB
1,900K CANDLELIGHT/FIRELIGHT
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