Lighting for TV and Film, 3rd Edition

11 Color temperature

 

 

 

If the color quality of the light and the color characteristics of the film or TV system do not match, the final picture will have a pronounced color bias. Here we shall discuss the theoretical and practical problems involved.

Identifying color

There are several ways of precisely identifying any color.

You can make a list of the proportions of each spectral hue it contains. But this is a laborious process, and gives no sense of the subjective color effect.

You can draw a graph showing their relative amounts as in Figure 12.1. With practice, this can be a very useful guide.

You can identify its location on a chromaticity ...