Part 4 - Exercise 3

Judging colour temperature 1

This exercise concentrates on studying the way that colour temperature changes during the day.

In each instance the white balance of the camera is set to "sunny day"

In the above photo, the white balance is correct for the scene. The white balance shows the white of the ball as pure white. The scene is exactly as I saw it.

In the shadow the photo takes on a blueish tint (the camera would ordinarily compensate for this by increasing the temperature of the photograph - warming it up a bit)

In the above photograph the scene is decidedly warmer - the ball is decidedly yellow rather than pure white. Interestingly this isn't much different to how I remember the scene - the light was very warm, but not quite as warm as it is in the photograph. Again, if the white balance had been set to auto, it would have cooled down the scene a bit, thus making the ball closer to pure white.