Introduction to Digital Photography
Color temperature
A course by Jesús G. Pastor , Photographer
About the video: Color temperature
Overview
“Few things affect the set of the image, each and every one of the colors of the scene, such as the color temperature. Controlling it will save us many headaches.”
In this video lesson Jesús G. Pastor addresses the topic: Color temperature, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Digital Photography. Learn to control the basic parameters of your reflex camera.
Partial transcription of the video
“White Balance and Color Temperature Having seen everything we've seen, we enter the color temperature, that is going to determine the white balance. Sure, you need to tell the camera, or the camera is going to decide it, what is the target of the scene and, based on it, what colors, what tones are going to have all the colors that appear, whereupon, very important, we will see that it affects the whole image and dye more orange, warmer, or colder, more bluish determining that the color temperature is closer to 1000 degrees Kelvin or about 20,000 degrees Kelvin. The whole technical issue, as...”
This transcript is automatically generated, so it may contain mistakes.
Course summary for: Introduction to Digital Photography
-
Category
Photography & Video -
Areas
Digital Photography, Photography

Jesús G. Pastor
A course by Jesús G. Pastor
The path of Jesús G. Pastor, a journalist by training, led him little by little towards images, always with a connection to social assistance. As an inveterate traveler, he spent two uninterrupted years in Asia, in addition to a month or more in Lebanon, Syria, Mexico, and Cuba, and two years living in the Balkans in the former Yugoslavia. It was during his travels that Jesús developed his photographic style.
Currently, he is a professor in a higher-level vocational training degree in Image and Sound. He has taught corporate communication workshops for Amnesty International and on travel photography, authorial photography, and digital retouching (especially Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw).
He has been published in national press (La Vanguardia, Público, Metro, Avui, Interviu, Periodismo Humano, The Huffington Post) and internationally (Travel Africa Magazine, Sunday Times, Corbis, Demotix, ACNUR), has worked for companies and NGOs, and has won awards for his work at a waste disposal site in Phnom Phen.
- 99% positive reviews (1.6K)
- 38,099 students
- 19 lessons (2h 41m)
- 23 additional resources (1 files)
- Online and at your own pace
- Available on the app
- Audio: Spanish, English
- Spanish · English · Portuguese · German · French · Italian · Polish · Dutch
- Level: Beginner
- Unlimited access forever