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Why change the color of lights

Why change the color of lights

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Why change the color of lights

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- Hey there I'm Robbie Carman and welcome back to another episode and this week we're lucky once again to have DP Kevin Bradley joining us on set. Hey Kevin, how are you? - How are you Rob? - And this week we're gonna talk to Kevin about changing the color temperature of lighting. Now Kevin, let's first start out about one kind of basic thing about color temperature I think a lot of people hear right? They hear color temperature expressed as 56 hundred or 32 hundred. What does that mean? - It means the color of the light. If you have a very blue light you have a very high colored temperature number in kelvin scale and when you have a very warm light, you have a very low number. For example, 32 hundred that's warm tungsten kind of yellowish, something you'd use in your house. - Yup. - And then you have 56 hundred which would be essentially a rough estimate of the color of the sun. It's a very, very pure white almost to the blue scale. - Yeah, and then of course we have higher numbers…

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