The color of light, expressed in Kelvins (K). The sun is about 5800 Kelvins. This is called a "temperature," because the hotter fire gets, the more it changes from a warm yellow glow to white. The ...

Color temperature is defined along a second locus in the color space. This 'black body' locus is often employed in lighting measurement to describe various shades of white light by its color ...

Back in the age of incandescent lights we only had one color temperature to choose for studio production. Until fairly recently, studio lighting was almost exclusively incandescent. There were a few ...