Pye I believe is the best. He seems to be the only one in SLR Lounge that can explain something and have someone understand without having to stop and replay sections of the video. I watched a few other hosts on SLR and had to replay sections asking myself wtf did I just listen to…. Great work Pye! As always.
Great tutorial! Question.. so if I'm indoors do I set it to the environment (2500 for example), or do I set it to 5500, natural, which is what I want?
I'm confused. If a scene is too warm (orange), then why is he sliding the Kelvin down towards the lower numbers, which is where the warmer colours are. This is counter intuitive to me. Surely you need to move the slider towards the cooler colours ie higher kelvin numbers.
This is an amazing resource! As someone trying to learn more about the basics of photography I really appreciate it. Thanks so much for making this available!
Great video. But one thing you didn't clarify at the end, and this may confuse some people, is that when you say warmer or cooler you are referring to the aspect of the tones, not the temperature. A warmer picture has more orange tones but this is a lower temperture in the Kelvin scale whereas a colder picture has more blue tones which correspond to a higher temperature. So it may be a little confusing when you say dial up or dial down the temperature.
Faisal what he means is that in order to balance a warm scene like candle tungsten or surise/sunset you need to cool it down with blue(which are the lower numbers in your camera kelvin scale)so it will balance your warm scene to 5500K which is basicly white light that will keep everything that is white to your eyes also white in your photo. if you have live view in youre camera put it inside a room with tungsten light and drag the dial to the lower kelvin numbers(around 1500-2000 and you will see exactly what happens to your shots.
At the end you said the expression "warm it up" and you increased the number of measurement to a higher value, while at the beginning in the scale you made shows that "warm color" means lower value. Can you explain that for me please? You're an awesome personpresenter and I love your videos so much. Thank you and take care :)
Not to nitpick, but a Kelvin is the unit and is not measured in degrees (like the Fahrenheit and Celsius scales). For instance a temperature is correctly describes as "3200 Kelvins" rather than "3200 degrees Kelvin." e.g. http://physics.nist.gov/cgi-bin/cuu/Info/Units/kelvin.html
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Pye I believe is the best. He seems to be the only one in SLR Lounge that can explain something and have someone understand without having to stop and replay sections of the video. I watched a few other hosts on SLR and had to replay sections asking myself wtf did I just listen to…. Great work Pye! As always.
Great tutorial! Question.. so if I'm indoors do I set it to the environment (2500 for example), or do I set it to 5500, natural, which is what I want?
If you shoot RAW, doesn't the camera ignore the WB settings?
Amazing class! Congrats!
He's using Adobe Lightroom software.
I'm confused.
If a scene is too warm (orange), then why is he sliding the Kelvin down towards the lower numbers, which is where the warmer colours are. This is counter intuitive to me. Surely you need to move the slider towards the cooler colours ie higher kelvin numbers.
v nice
It pisses me off no end that it says "flourescent" on your little colour temperature diagram. Fluorescent. Like fluorine.
This is an amazing resource! As someone trying to learn more about the basics of photography I really appreciate it. Thanks so much for making this available!
So well put. Thanks. Needed some clarification of this
What kind of software is he using to view pictures?
+SLR Lounge | Photography Tutorials keep up this awesome tutorials its really gonna help me as i go through college for digital photography.
Great video. But one thing you didn't clarify at the end, and this may confuse some people, is that when you say warmer or cooler you are referring to the aspect of the tones, not the temperature. A warmer picture has more orange tones but this is a lower temperture in the Kelvin scale whereas a colder picture has more blue tones which correspond to a higher temperature. So it may be a little confusing when you say dial up or dial down the temperature.
Degrees Kelvin don't exist it's just Kelvin.
You know you're a nerd when Pye says, "indoor" and you hear "Endor"
wow.. thank you. I've read a few articles on kelvin and I didn't seem to get it until now.
Faisal what he means is that in order to balance a warm scene like candle tungsten or surise/sunset you need to cool it down with blue(which are the lower numbers in your camera kelvin scale)so it will balance your warm scene to 5500K which is basicly white light that will keep everything that is white to your eyes also white in your photo.
if you have live view in youre camera put it inside a room with tungsten light and drag the dial to the lower kelvin numbers(around 1500-2000 and you will see exactly what happens to your shots.
OMG!!! ive finnally got it! That was the best tutorial.i almost gave up cause it was so confusing. thank you so much!!!
At the end you said the expression "warm it up" and you increased the number of measurement to a higher value, while at the beginning in the scale you made shows that "warm color" means lower value. Can you explain that for me please?
You're an awesome personpresenter and I love your videos so much.
Thank you and take care :)
I've learned more here than when I was in the Photography class! SUBSCRIBED! Thanks!
you are not make it easier to understand. still no idea
Great video!
Not to nitpick, but a Kelvin is the unit and is not measured in degrees (like the Fahrenheit and Celsius scales). For instance a temperature is correctly describes as "3200 Kelvins" rather than "3200 degrees Kelvin."
e.g. http://physics.nist.gov/cgi-bin/cuu/Info/Units/kelvin.html
Great video.
The most useful white balance tutorial I ever seen! Thanks