Results for “White Balance”
6 terms
Custom White Balance
Colour & Colour Management
K and tint
Setting white balance by photographing a known neutral target under the actual light and telling the camera to treat it as neutral.
Chromatic Adaptation
Colour & Colour Management
The visual system's automatic adjustment to the colour of the prevailing light, which keeps familiar objects looking the same colour under different illuminants.
Colour Cast
Colour & Colour Management
An unwanted overall tint across an image, usually caused by the light source or by reflections from coloured surfaces.
Colour Checker
Colour & Colour Management
patches
A card of printed patches with known colour values, photographed in a scene to allow accurate colour correction and profiling.
Colour Constancy
Colour & Colour Management
The perceptual effect by which an object keeps its apparent colour across widely different illuminants.
CTO Gel
Lighting & Flash
fraction (¼, ½, full CTO)
A colour temperature orange gel that warms a daylight-balanced source to match tungsten light.