Candle light color temp

[AdamR]

What's the best color temperature/white balance setting for candle light?

[bhursey]

Originally Posted by AdamR

What's the best color temperature/white balance setting for candle light?

Color temperature - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

1,850 K Candle flame

[OsmosisStudios]

The colour temperature that looks right.

[thegunshow]

Originally Posted by OsmosisStudios

The colour temperature that looks right.

Basically...take it in RAW and then open up photoshop's raw converter and tweak it to make it look good, it will tell you the temp. there.

[kencaleno]

Use auto white balance-if it doesn't look right-

Correcting Colour Balance

Hover your mouse over a pure grey area on your image
Use the info palette and note down the red green and blue values of the grey area
average out the greys (r+g+b/3)
Open a curves adjustment layer and select the red channel
click anywhere on the curve line and then enter the original red value into the input box
Enter averaged value in the output box
Repeat last two steps for the green and blue channels
Click ok and you're done


regards, Ken