hey everyone Greg here from lens protego and in this video we're going to be talking about white balance and color temperature what is white balance so white balance is the process of adjusting your camera to reproduce white accurately so the white that you see in real life is how that white is going to look in your camera what I have here is a simple camera menu and I'm going to go into the white balance and you can see there's already some presets in here so tungsten 3200k fluorescent 4300k daylight daylight cool we're going to go and add our own custom one here this number here so going from 2000 all the way up to 11 000. is the white balance settings and this is in kelvin or k so you'll see this k a lot most cameras don't quite have the range that this camera does they might go from something like 25 26 up to Mid eight thousands or less this camera has a pretty great range going from 2000 all the way up to 11 000. now jumping over to talk about color temperature this is what you refer to when you're talking about the source's color so not your camera settings but the actual source of the light in most cases this is going to be somewhere between 2 000 to 8 000 depending on what lights you're using obviously can go higher and lower than that if you go much lower than that you're going to start getting into your infrared spectrum and if you go much higher than that you're going to start getting into your ultraviolet lights so I have seven lights set up here ranging in different color temperatures this first one starting at 2 000 degrees Kelvin and this is going to be your Candlelight setup so if you're lighting something with either really low tungstens or in Candlelight that's what this first color is going to be next is going to be at 2800 degrees Kelvin and I'm also going to tie this in with the following one which is at 3 400 degrees Kelvin and these two are going to be your normal like tungsten like fixtures so these ones are going to be if you have a bedside lamp most practical like floor lamps and even some of the bigger lighting setups use tungsten bulbs and this is going to be the range that those color temperatures are going to be in next we have our 4500 degree range and this is going to be your fluorescent light so if you're in an office space or a hospital usually these are the lights that also have very bad cast to them where you're going to need that color correction or that color cast like we looked at for the white balance next we have our 5600 degree and our 6500 degree Kelvin and these two are going to be our sun or daylight it can range it can go a little bit lower than that a little bit higher than that depending on what the weather's like if it's overcast it's obviously going to be higher if it's a really bright blue sky out it might be a little bit lower than this but those are going to be your range for your daylight and then we go over to this last Light and this one is at 8 000 degrees Kelvin and this one's going to be giving you that very Moonlight color so it's going to be very blue on your subjects and it's almost going to replicate that Moonlight look so this light right here is the light that I am currently white balanced to so my camera is set at 4500 degrees Kelvin and that's why this light right here is being reproduced as white anything above that so any of the numbers higher in kelvin so going from 45 up to 8 000 are going to be cooler looking colors obviously the farther away you go from your white balance the more blue or cool those lights are going to look same thing in the opposite direction so if we go down from 4 500 degrees Kelvin everything is going to be warmer and getting warmer the farther you go away so in this next part that I'm going to show you I'm not going to change any of the color temperatures of the lights I'm only going to be changing the camera color temperature just so you can see how this affects the look and color of each of the lights here's all of those same lights I haven't changed the color temperatures at all but now I am white balanced at 2 000 degrees Kelvin so this light is being reproduced as white and anything above that is increasingly cooler or more blue and anything below that is going to be warmer if we go over to the next one so we're going up and now we are going to be white balanced at 2800 degrees Kelvin you can see that the light the one light below it is a little bit warmer and then all of these lights above that 2800 degree Kelvin are going to be cooler we'll just jump through the rest of these really quick so you can see how it affects as you go up so now we're white balanced at 3 400 degrees Kelvin now we're changing our camera setting and we're white balanced at 4500 degree Kelvin this is what it looked like at the beginning now we'll go up to 5600 now we're going to go up to 6500 again some warmer lights just barely having some blue in that 8 000 degrees and then we're white balanced at 8 000 degrees Kelvin now everything below that is going to be warmer and everything above that is going to be cooler obviously we don't have any lights that go above 8000 so we only have warm lights in the scene so by using these color temperatures and your white balance you can adjust how warm or cool your scene is and that can give you some emotion here's some samples so I have this light right here and we are white balanced to roughly 5600 it looks like it's a little bit above that because this light is a little bit warm coming in from the back and we're getting some really nice white light coming off of the computer but if I wanted to change the mood of this scene or how I wanted the viewers to feel about it just by changing the color temperature of my camera I can change the look and feel dramatically so here I've changed the camera white balance now to 4000 so these lights are still up at that 5600 degree Kelvin this one's probably even a little bit Bluer probably closer to 6000 or 7 000 and we're getting a much cooler feel to the overall scene now I can go the opposite direction and even start mixing these color temperatures to change how the mood feels I kept our computer monitor the same color so that's still shooting up at six thousand to seven thousand that's that very blue light coming onto her face but now I've changed the lights color temperature so I've changed this down to say 3200 and that's where you're getting that warm tungsten light coming in and that's going to give us a very different feel from this one where we're using much cooler colored lights or even this one where we're white balanced pretty close to what it should be and that's all I have for you guys today if you like this video don't forget to give it a thumbs up subscribe and stay tuned because we have so much more content like this coming out and if there's anything specific you guys want to see leave a comment below and also let us know if you have any questions on this topic or anything else 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