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Hi, I'd like you to meet Kaitlyn, our assistant model and actress today. So, we're talking
about light. Now, we're talking about how daylight has a color temperature of sixty-five
hundred degrees, and that cameras are balanced for that. If you've got a quartz light, like
this, this is approximately sixty-five hundred degrees kelvin, and you can see when I turn
it on, that the color on Kaitlyn's face is very natural looking under that because cameras
are balanced for quartz and or daylight kind of lighting. Compare that to a tungsten. Notice
how it has become a lot warmer, yellower, and redder than the quartz light. Flash lights,
or flash units, are also balanced like quartz for daylight. But there's a significant difference
in color. Florescent you should try and avoid at all costs because it puts out a green cast,
as does mercury vapor lamps. But you're not likely to have a mercury vapor lamp in your
house anyway. But, we can correct this color as long as you're first aware of it.