Focus On Lighting Photos Focus on the Fundamentals.pdf

What happens when we go in the
opposite direction, use daylight,
but set the camera to tungsten?
We get blue pictures. In the photo
on the left on page 70, we set the
camera to daylight and we get a
In the warm photos on pages
67 and 68, both cameras were
set to daylight balance. Why
is one warmer than the other?
Household bulbs warm with
age. As a result, the lighting
is sometimes pretty, but it’s
seldom accurate. Photographers
who need accurate tungsten
(lower-budget video) always use
the pricier quartzhalogen
version with
nearly constant color
throughout the life
of the lamp.
realistic image of the black-andwhite
painted wooden cat. But it’s
a crazy cat. To emphasize that,
we set the camera to its tungsten
setting. The camera is expecting
yellow light. It plans to neutralize
that yellow into gray. However,
our light isn’t yellow, so the camera
“corrects” the image to blue.
Generally this is not what we
want, but it’s still worth playing
with occasionally.
The Color of Light
69