Color Temperature Explained - The Cinematographer's Guide to White Balance & Color Temp Fundamentals
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- Color temperature and white balance tutorial - the technical and creative elements in cinematography.
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Chapters:
00:00 - Intro - Color Temperature in Film
00:43 - Definition and History
02:05 - Color Temperature Reference Scale
02:30 - White Balance Explained
03:39 - Lighting Gels & Other Color Temperature Tools
04:28 - Shooting in Log-Format & Post Production Color Grading
05:17 - Color Temperature Decisions in Film
05:46 - Using Gels for Time Periods (A Ghost Story)
06:29 - Orange Color Temperature as a Motif (Palm Springs)
07:22 - Separating Environments & Creating Contrast (No Time to Die)
08:11 - Lawrence Sher Breaks Down His Lighting Techniques (The Hangover Part II)
09:25 - Using a Single Color Temperature (Ozark)
10:11 - FREE Color Temperature Chart
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Color temperature and white balance are elements that every photographer and cinematographer must understand. Every shot needs to be lit and every light has a color temperature. So, whether you want realism or something abstract in the colors of your image, a firm grasp of color temperature and white balance is absolutely necessary. In this video, we’re going to explain the science and creative choices behind these concepts so that you can master the lighting and color temperature in any scenario.
So, what is color temperature? Skipping over the extremely difficult math and science, color temperature is the color given off by a particular light source. For example, a candle is yellow/orange while a clear sky is bright blue. These color temperatures can be identified on a scale or spectrum, measured in Kelvin (not Celsius or Fahrenheit used for measuring actual temperatures).
But knowing the color temperature fundamentals doesn’t stop there, that’s just one half of the puzzle. The other consideration is the white balance setting of your camera. So, what is white balance? White balance is a setting that adjusts how colors are registered. Most cameras have preset white balance settings to choose from so that if you’re shooting outside on a “daylight” white balance preset, the colors will register the same in-camera as they appear to your eyes.
So, in most shooting scenarios, you’d want to capture those accurate or true colors. But there might also be a situation when you want to boost the orange or blue colors beyond their actual color temperature. This is most commonly achieved by either adjusting the color temperature of the light source, like with a gel, or by adjusting the white balance camera setting.
There are no hard and fast rules when it comes to color temperature and white balance. They are simply another set of tools image makers use to dial in their perfect shot. And once you understand the rules, you’ll know how to break them.
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Chapters:
00:00 - Intro - Color Temperature in Film
00:43 - Definition and History
02:05 - Color Temperature Reference Scale
02:30 - White Balance Explained
03:39 - Lighting Gels & Other Color Temperature Tools
04:28 - Shooting in Log-Format & Post Production Color Grading
05:17 - Color Temperature Decisions in Film
05:46 - Using Gels for Time Periods (A Ghost Story)
06:29 - Orange Color Temperature as a Motif (Palm Springs)
07:22 - Separating Environments & Creating Contrast (No Time to Die)
08:11 - Lawrence Sher Breaks Down His Lighting Techniques (The Hangover Part II)
09:25 - Using a Single Color Temperature (Ozark)
10:11 - FREE Color Temperature Chart
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Great video, but I found a little very insignificant mistake concerning Planck's Law at 1:02: e shouldn't be in the denominator of the fraction with the Boltzmann Constant but it should actually be the base with the rest of the fraction as its exponent. So it should be like e^(hv/kBT). Just thought I'd let you know in case you care.
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Not sure if it differs in video, but in photography we can use a cto then change the white balance in camera to "trick" it. for example if we want a deep blue sky we add a full CTO to the subject and adjust the WB to a bluer kelvin. thus keeping skin tones correct but background blue. So many cool ways to play around. Great video as always, I hope you never run out of things to make because i'm loving them all :)
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Cruel Summer is a perfect example, as the story takes place in three different timelines the first timeline is usually warmly lit with bright colors and the second more white/pale and finally the last one darker with tones of green or blue. It's a simple way for a viewer to keep track of the timeline without any onscreen time stamps.
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me and my friend were making a lego stop motion and had his desk lamp at the perfect spot. One problem was it didnt have an orange tint to it. It just so happened there was yellow face cloths on the desk beside us, which i used to clamp onto the desk lamp. As you can guess, it gave off a yellow / orange tint! i love improvising right on the spot.
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I have not seen a single movie by Max Planck so who made him such an expert on colour temperature? 🤔
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So if you have a scene with lights that are difference colour temperatures, say 3200 and 6500k, what should you set the cameras white balance to? How do you decide?
More specifically what would Lawrence Sher the DOP of the Hangover have set his colour temp at in that scene in the hotel?
Actually , i am little bit confused if we put CT 2500k of your camera and there is day light on which we are shooting we get blue tone output but if we get warm tone in our weather and shooting with 2500k what we will get as output
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3:03 So if I want a warm look, I should set my white balance higher than the light source?
D65 is what Filmmakers use as reference for White point balance from what I've researched, which is the industry standard.
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So with the dp that decided to make orange the focus color in the movie, I wonder when in production did she make that choice. While reading, script, rehearsal, etc?
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1:44- The "hotter" the temperature.................with literally Leonardo DiCaprio in the clip.😉😛
Aliens is still one of the finest example of using colour temperature to set the overall mood and tone of the film.
Recent example: 2nd season of Euphoria made smart use of it, supporting its unique style.
Great example!