Color temperature is used in everything from lighting, photography, and videography to manufacturing and astrophysics.
When white balancing your camera, printing a photograph, or trying to determine the surface temperature of a distant star, color temperature is a term that’s always thrown around. But what does color temperature mean? Is it hot to the touch? Or does it just want to have an argument or give you the cold shoulder?
All of the above, actually.
While there are many uses for color temperature, when it comes to film and video, color temperature refers to the characteristics of visible light and how it’s reproduced in your camera or display. Before we get to that, let’s get to some nerdy stuff first.
Author: Yaroslav Altunin
This article comes from No Film School and can be read on the original site.
