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Managing mixed color temperatures

Managing mixed color temperatures

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Managing mixed color temperatures

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- Once the exposure is finally tamed, you may have noticed that we still have an issue with two different color temperatures. If your camera is balanced for 3200-degree Kelvin tungsten light, the daylight outside will look very blue. And if your camera is balanced for 5600-degree Kelvin daylight, then a tungsten-lit interior will look too warm. Nothing necessarily wrong with either if you want a more extreme warm or cool contrast and it works for your story, but if it doesn't work for the visual story you're trying to tell, then you're gonna wanna do once of several things. So method number one is to manually white balance for daylight and then add CTB, or color temperature blue gel, to any tungsten lights, practical lights included. Also, for a little warmer look, you could try a 1/8 or 1/4 CTB gel instead of a full CTB gel. Now method number two is to white balance for your tungsten lights and then gel the portion of the window seen on the camera with a CTO gel or perhaps a CTO or…

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