{"id":1977,"date":"2010-08-16T12:00:55","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T10:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michael-gelfert.de\/blog\/?p=1977"},"modified":"2015-05-09T19:11:17","modified_gmt":"2015-05-09T17:11:17","slug":"understanding-light-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migel-photo.com\/blog\/english\/understanding-light-color\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding light: Color"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One (if not THE one) key components of photography is light.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2014\" title=\"understanding_light\" src=\"https:\/\/www.migel-photo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/understanding_light-233x350.jpg\" alt=\"understanding light\" width=\"210\" height=\"315\" \/>Understanding and using light is a big deal on the way from snapshooter to photographer.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to knowing light you&#8217;ll have to learn that light has several characteristics influencing the way your pictures are seen and how they &#8222;feel&#8220;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>intensitiy<\/li>\n<li>shape (hard or soft and all things between)<\/li>\n<li>direction<\/li>\n<li>quality<\/li>\n<li>color<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Today I&#8217;ll write about the color.<\/p>\n<p>Light has not ONE color. It changes it&#8217;s appearing according to where it&#8217;s emitted from or where it&#8217;s reflected of.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why you&#8217;ve got the &#8222;white balance&#8220; option in your digital camera and why they&#8217;ve used conversion filters in the (not so) long gone analog era.<\/p>\n<p>The purpose of the WB (white balance) is to adapt the color rendition of your chip to the temperature of the light. That&#8217;s a thing our brain does automatically, so if you&#8217;re untrained you often won&#8217;t recognise how different some light colors in real life really are.<\/p>\n<p>The term &#8222;temperature&#8220; and the kelvin values in which it&#8217;s measured comes from the color of a heated (theoretical) material which gets the same color at a certain surface temperature. In this theory the light temperature ranges from an orange\/yellow to blue. The light emitted by some artificial lightsources such as fluorescent doesn&#8217;t fit in this theory which is meant to be compensated by another axis of WB ranging from green to magenta (which for this reason is NOT measured in Kelvin).<\/p>\n<p>However, while there is always a correct WB and color rendition in every situation, correct is not always the best.<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_1987\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1987\" style=\"width: 186px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.migel-photo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/Wolf_Workshop_280310_0051.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1977]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1987 \" title=\"Portrait in WB adjustment 1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.migel-photo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/Wolf_Workshop_280310_0051-233x350.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait in WB adjustment 1\" width=\"186\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1987\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beauty-Portrait in WB adjustment 1<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n<td>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_1986\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1986\" style=\"width: 186px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.migel-photo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/Wolf_Workshop_280310_0051-1.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1977]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1986 \" title=\"Portrait in WB adjustment 2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.migel-photo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/Wolf_Workshop_280310_0051-1-233x350.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait in WB adjustment 2\" width=\"186\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1986\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beauty-Portrait in WB adjustment 2<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n<td>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_1988\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1988\" style=\"width: 186px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.migel-photo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/Wolf_Workshop_280310_0051-2.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1977]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1988 \" title=\"Portrait in WB adjustment 3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.migel-photo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/Wolf_Workshop_280310_0051-2-233x350.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait in WB adjustment 3\" width=\"186\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1988\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beauty-Portrait in WB adjustment 3<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_1991\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1991\" style=\"width: 186px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.migel-photo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/Wolf_Workshop_280310_0051-3.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1977]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1991 \" title=\"Portrait in WB adjustment 4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.migel-photo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/Wolf_Workshop_280310_0051-3-233x350.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait in WB adjustment 4\" width=\"186\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1991\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beauty-Portrait in WB adjustment 4<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n<td>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_1992\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1992\" style=\"width: 186px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.migel-photo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/Wolf_Workshop_280310_0051-4.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1977]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1992 \" title=\"Portrait in WB adjustment 5\" src=\"https:\/\/www.migel-photo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/Wolf_Workshop_280310_0051-4-233x350.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait in WB adjustment 5\" width=\"186\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1992\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beauty-Portrait in WB adjustment 5<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n<td>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_1993\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1993\" style=\"width: 186px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.migel-photo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/Wolf_Workshop_280310_0051-5.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1977]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1993 \" title=\"Portrait in WB adjustment 6\" src=\"https:\/\/www.migel-photo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/Wolf_Workshop_280310_0051-5-233x350.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait in WB adjustment 6\" width=\"186\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1993\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beauty-Portrait in WB adjustment 6<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Remember that we are artists, trying to express and evoke feelings and moods with and within our photographs.<br \/>\nColor plays a very important psychological role in the way we feel things.<br \/>\nSo controlling and using color in our photographs is one artistic mean to achieve our goals.<\/p>\n<p>Use your power wisely! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One (if not THE one) key components of photography is light. Understanding and using light is a big deal on the way from snapshooter to photographer. When it comes to knowing light you&#8217;ll have to learn that light has several characteristics influencing the way your pictures are seen and how they &#8222;feel&#8220;: intensitiy shape (hard &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/migel-photo.com\/blog\/english\/understanding-light-color\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Understanding light: Color<\/span> Weiterlesen &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[1217],"tags":[412,416,325,417,415,1288,414,413],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"MiGel","author_link":"https:\/\/migel-photo.com\/blog\/author\/migel\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"One (if not THE one) key components of photography is light. 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