What’s Cool About Color Temperature? Video Lighting Explained

Here’s a warmup on color temperature that will hopefully illuminate the ins and outs of lighting basics and light the way to perfectly balanced shots. Lighting is one of the most important and often most underrated parts of video production.

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⏱ Chapter Markers:
0:00 - A Hot Take About Color Temperature
0:46 - What Is Color Temperature?
4:06 - Why Does It Matter?
5:11 - Nanlite Sponsor: Forza Series II Lights
6:29 - Daylight vs. Bi-Color Lights
9:22 - What About RGB Lights?
10:30 - Mixing Color Temperatures
11:51 - Different White Balances/Color Temperature Examples
15:14 - Extra Tidbits

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Episode 338: Get Your Light Right: Color Temperature Explained

[JeffryGonzalezHt]

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[bydavin]

i have on question, why kelvin adjustment for light, more lower your number like 3000, 2500 Kelvin it's more warm, but... in photo adjustment with RAW files, when you adjusting the white balance, more lower number of kelvin of white balance it's more blue?

[cameranerdsmedia]

New Tom Buck video! What a great morning!

[FootDoctorZach]

Your lighting videos are the best out there- I’ve gotten more actionable advice from yours than any others - awesome

[DocRock]

New Nanlite Flex, Yessir. These look amazing

[DaivG]

Nothing like a smooth transition that calls itself out as a smooth transition...

Don't ever change.

[andrewsaraceni]

Great overview, that side angle studio setup is a really cool/unique look.

[PabloMunozIturrieta]

Thank you so much for all these videos. I found your channel a couple of weeks ago and have been watching every single video! You are helping me bring my channel to a more professional level!

[levelupwithmikenewman]

The amount of time you must have put into this video with the lighting setups blows my mind🤯….you are a machine! Sometimes I talk myself out of a video idea simply because I know how much time it would take to clean up after it’s over 🤣😂 Great video as always

[PatrickBoberg]

Your background play with the light cookies is really fun. Wish YouTubers did that more than simply throwing up color tube lights.

[NeilFarrimond]

It's also important to manually set the white balance of the camera with a white or gray card.

[politemarketing]

Great resource, thanks for covering the full spectrum of color options

[GJoseeph]

I absolutely love your colourful set and your camera settings; mostly I don’t like blue colours, but u know how to well saturate the background and keep a realistic skin tone, the frame is close enough to see your face and movements but not to close and it feels well done.

[PierceJPeterson]

Hey Tom, couple of quick questions for you. If your key light is at 5600K, is there a certain color temperature that practical lights should be? Also, is it generally recommended to have all practical lights be the same color temp? Thanks!

[TechTroublemaker]

Very timely. I just got a new cob light with a parabolic softbox and this makes it make more sense why I like the settings I have it set at.

[HomesickMac]

Very nice that Nanlite sponsors your channel, you nailed the presentation! And all the work with bringing the light out in the garden and setting up... jeez! You're the forza to be reconed with 🙂
This was such a great reminder that I'll need to work deeper with my own lighting. Also great to see how you illustrated with live examples while you were talking colors and all technical stuff.
Excuse the "scanning eye" at 16:30, but what's that little cube on your desk beside the Røde mic on the table stand? It was also great to see the camera sliding over your RCPII on a boom arm, I'm working on it..

[twtch]

dang that intro edit is really solid, nice job Tom.