Overview of Lights for Pro Photo Shoot

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Hi, I'm Rob Mitchell again on behalf of Expert Village. We're going to continue on talking about setting up your studio and lighting and we are going to start with different types of light and what you have to know about them in order to get the best picture. We've got a few different types of light we can start off with sunlight or daylight. Then we've got your studio strobe, which closely mimics daylight conditions. Light is measured in degreed Kelvin. We don't really want to get scientific for this series, but safe to say that degrees Kelvin for daylight is average fifty-five hundred. Fifty-five hundred degrees Kelvin is daylight. These strobe lights are balanced for daylight. They too emit a light temperature of fifty-five hundred degrees Kelvin. The only reason you need to know that is you'll see that when color temperature changes, it changes the quality of the light. So, just stick with me and you'll understand it. We've got daylight at fifty-five hundred degrees Kelvin, we've got studio strobes that match daylight, and then we've also got tungsten lights. Now, tungsten lights are warmer lights. They create a warmer tone, they have a lower color temperature. They're down to thirty-two hundred degrees Kelvin. Okay, so why do we need to know this? Well, a few years ago when everyone was shooting film, before they were shooting digital, you had to have the right type of film to shoot with the right type of lighting conditions. Therefore you had daylight film, and you had tungsten film. If you were shooting outdoors or if we were shooting with the strobes, we always bought daylight film. The color was perfect. But, as soon as you introduce tungsten lights, if you shoot with daylight film, you are going to get a warm tone, because it has a lower color temperature. Now you say, okay so I'm shooting digital. Why do I need to know this? Because it will affect your digital picture as well. Okay now let's say maybe you are not even going to use these type of studio tungsten lights but suppose you are taking some shots indoors in your living room with your standard incandescent lights. You have your regular living room light. If you set your camera up and you take a shot using just this lighting, chances are good it will have a warm cast to it, almost like an orangey tone, or a warm sepia tone. The reason is, your camera hasn't balanced correctly for that type of daylight. Now, let's take a look at the back of the camera and see just what those symbols look like. and then we'll also look at some pictures and see how they differ.

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