Comments on: Creating Moods with the Kelvin Scale http://digital-photography-school.com/creating-moods-with-the-kelvin-scale Discover how to use your digital camera with our Digital Photography Tips. We are a community of photographers of all experience levels who come together to learn, share and grow in our understanding of photography. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:14:11 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Jeremy http://digital-photography-school.com/creating-moods-with-the-kelvin-scale/comment-page-1#comment-72581 Jeremy Sat, 14 Nov 2009 06:20:41 +0000 http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/creating-moods-with-the-kelvin-scale/#comment-72581 great blog for those that have not yet or have forgotten there K scale settings however a mistake in your writing was found The Kelvin Scale ranges from 2000 … 10000 (correction[The Kelvin Scale ranges from 0- ? ]) the use of Kelvin in color temp and in Noise still hold the 0- to infinite ranks although we cannot see 200k light or after 25,000K our vision of it begins to disappear it is still there and can still affect cameras both film and digital to some degree btw its 275K outside where im at =) great blog for those that have not yet or have forgotten there K scale settings however a mistake in your writing was found

The Kelvin Scale ranges from 2000 … 10000 (correction[The Kelvin Scale ranges from 0- ? ]) the use of Kelvin in color temp and in Noise still hold the 0- to infinite ranks although we cannot see 200k light or after 25,000K our vision of it begins to disappear it is still there and can still affect cameras both film and digital to some degree

btw its 275K outside where im at =)

]]> By: Ana http://digital-photography-school.com/creating-moods-with-the-kelvin-scale/comment-page-1#comment-48250 Ana Fri, 17 Apr 2009 18:45:02 +0000 http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/creating-moods-with-the-kelvin-scale/#comment-48250 EXCELLENT tips!! I think I found one of the missing secrets to those supersaturated "ice blue" and "sunset red"... can't wait to try these out. DPS, you guys rock!!! EXCELLENT tips!! I think I found one of the missing secrets to those supersaturated “ice blue” and “sunset red”… can’t wait to try these out.

DPS, you guys rock!!!

]]> By: nils http://digital-photography-school.com/creating-moods-with-the-kelvin-scale/comment-page-1#comment-36467 nils Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:04:50 +0000 http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/creating-moods-with-the-kelvin-scale/#comment-36467 Bought a D200 last week. I really love the kelvin setting possibility! Bought a D200 last week. I really love the kelvin setting possibility!

]]> By: Genghis2510 http://digital-photography-school.com/creating-moods-with-the-kelvin-scale/comment-page-1#comment-33047 Genghis2510 Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:00:38 +0000 http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/creating-moods-with-the-kelvin-scale/#comment-33047 Any photography tip is worthwhile exploring. Thanks. Any photography tip is worthwhile exploring. Thanks.

]]> By: Marc http://digital-photography-school.com/creating-moods-with-the-kelvin-scale/comment-page-1#comment-32986 Marc Sun, 03 Aug 2008 02:16:08 +0000 http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/creating-moods-with-the-kelvin-scale/#comment-32986 Great tip! I tried it tonight on the sunset. Amazing, simply amazing. Thanks! Great tip! I tried it tonight on the sunset. Amazing, simply amazing. Thanks!

]]> By: Sunnyman http://digital-photography-school.com/creating-moods-with-the-kelvin-scale/comment-page-1#comment-32972 Sunnyman Sat, 02 Aug 2008 12:46:31 +0000 http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/creating-moods-with-the-kelvin-scale/#comment-32972 I'd have liked to edit my prevoius post, but here goes: What the author is trying to say is that you can, for instance, "fool" the camera to make the image look warmer by telling it the light is very bluish, ie. high up on the Kelvin scale. The camera will then try to compensate by adding more red to the image. I guess this feature is not found on the cheaper digicams, they may have simpler settings like "cloudy" etc. In my experience, if you get the color balance totally off by having the image shot with the wrong color balance, it is then very difficult to get it right even in an advanced image editing program like Photoshop. I’d have liked to edit my prevoius post, but here goes:
What the author is trying to say is that you can, for instance, “fool” the camera to make the image look warmer by telling it the light is very bluish, ie. high up on the Kelvin scale. The camera will then try to compensate by adding more red to the image.
I guess this feature is not found on the cheaper digicams, they may have simpler settings like “cloudy” etc.

In my experience, if you get the color balance totally off by having the image shot with the wrong color balance, it is then very difficult to get it right even in an advanced image editing program like Photoshop.

]]> By: Sunnyman http://digital-photography-school.com/creating-moods-with-the-kelvin-scale/comment-page-1#comment-32971 Sunnyman Sat, 02 Aug 2008 12:34:12 +0000 http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/creating-moods-with-the-kelvin-scale/#comment-32971 As said above, this was kind of a confusing article, since it in the beginning says the Kelvin scale goes from bluish to reddish when in fact it is the opposite - low end = reddish, as in candle light; high end = bluish, as in noontime sunlight. This is stated correctly later in the text, but the contradiction is likely to confuse. FYI: the Kelvin scale is identical to the Centigrade scale; expt. it has its zero point at Absolute Zero (about -273 degrees Centigrade), instead of at the freezing point of water! As said above, this was kind of a confusing article, since it in the beginning says the Kelvin scale goes from bluish to reddish when in fact it is the opposite – low end = reddish, as in candle light; high end = bluish, as in noontime sunlight. This is stated correctly later in the text, but the contradiction is likely to confuse.

FYI: the Kelvin scale is identical to the Centigrade scale; expt. it has its zero point at Absolute Zero (about -273 degrees Centigrade), instead of at the freezing point of water!

]]> By: Les Smith http://digital-photography-school.com/creating-moods-with-the-kelvin-scale/comment-page-1#comment-32958 Les Smith Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:25:16 +0000 http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/creating-moods-with-the-kelvin-scale/#comment-32958 Sorry people, I got it wrong. my comments re using the Kelvin settings were for the D80. Can't comment on the D60 as I don't have one. Sorry people, I got it wrong. my comments re using the Kelvin settings were for the D80. Can’t comment on the D60 as I don’t have one.

]]> By: NormMonkey http://digital-photography-school.com/creating-moods-with-the-kelvin-scale/comment-page-1#comment-32951 NormMonkey Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:20:07 +0000 http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/creating-moods-with-the-kelvin-scale/#comment-32951 Regarding the RAW vs. in-camera war that's cropped up here: Both are right! Setting the whitebalance in-camera saves time AND is good practise (learning to do it right vs. fixing it later). Using RAW *does* give you more control, AND an opportunity to correct mistakes - or get creative - later, without degrading quality. What does this mean to us when we're behind the camera? Take advantage of BOTH by shooting RAW *AND* setting the white-balance properly. The camera saves the WB setting in its RAW metadata; any decent RAW interpreter lets you use the camera-chosen WB in addition to setting it by some other means (e.g. auto-setting, choosing your own setting manually, picking a region to interpret as white). Regarding the RAW vs. in-camera war that’s cropped up here:

Both are right!

Setting the whitebalance in-camera saves time AND is good practise (learning to do it right vs. fixing it later).

Using RAW *does* give you more control, AND an opportunity to correct mistakes – or get creative – later, without degrading quality.

What does this mean to us when we’re behind the camera?

Take advantage of BOTH by shooting RAW *AND* setting the white-balance properly. The camera saves the WB setting in its RAW metadata; any decent RAW interpreter lets you use the camera-chosen WB in addition to setting it by some other means (e.g. auto-setting, choosing your own setting manually, picking a region to interpret as white).

]]> By: Chris http://digital-photography-school.com/creating-moods-with-the-kelvin-scale/comment-page-1#comment-32946 Chris Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:22:02 +0000 http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/creating-moods-with-the-kelvin-scale/#comment-32946 By the way, Anthony, look up "color temperature" in Wikipedia and you'll get a techy explanation of how kelvins (for color temperature) relate to black body radiation. Even Planck's constant gets a look-in ! Just too techy for me... By the way, Anthony, look up “color temperature” in Wikipedia and you’ll get a techy explanation of how kelvins (for color temperature) relate to black body radiation. Even Planck’s constant gets a look-in !

Just too techy for me…

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