Color Temperature Quotes

Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.

There's one thing which I hate about color films... people who use up a lot of their despairing producer's money by working in the laboratory to bring out the dominant hues, or to make color films where there isn't any color.

Think colour! Know how to imagine it!

Beware of color theories. Theories in color photography are dangerous. The plain fact that there are so many of them proves my point.

Above all, keep your colors fresh!

Since we can produce all types of light by means of hot bodies, we can ascribe, to the radiation in thermal equilibrium with hot bodies, the temperature of these bodies, and thus every radiation, even that issuing from a phosphorescent body, has a certain temperature for every colour.

Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.

Color is like cooking. The cook puts in more or less salt, that's the difference!

Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about. There is almost nothing you can say that holds up as a generalization, because it depends on too many factors: size, modulation, the rest of the field, a certain consistency that color has with forms, and the statement you're trying to make.

Every single discussion I have with a first AD, or producers, is time of day. I can't begin to tell you how many times I've fought for early-morning calls. The light is 90 percent of our job; we as humans respond to light and where it is at different times of day and not only in positive ways.

To any white body receiving the light from the sun, or the air, the shadows will be of a bluish cast.

A film that is bleached tends to have a more realistic quality.

Most movies are too brightly lit. I think that may come from a lot of directors having watched too much TV.

You buy any book on color theory today, and it's just complete poppycock. Everybody comes out of school painting pink, purple and green. The whole damn cartoon industry has pink purple and green on their mind.

And I don't care what else anyone has ever told you, the Sun is white, not yellow. Human color perception is a complicated business, but if the Sun were yellow, like a yellow lightbulb, then white stuff such as snow would reflect this light and appear yellow-a snow condition confirmed to happen only near fire hydrants.

Color cannot stand alone.

A colour is a physical object as soon as we consider its dependence, for instance, upon its luminous source, upon other colours, upon temperatures, upon spaces, and so forth.

The best photographers know how to light any color skin.

Light is everything in photographs and has to be considered in all situations.

People don't realize that lighting can change the whole look of a place and the feel.

In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.

Some colors are very difficult to render, and you must compensate to get the color you want on the screen.

I believe in naturalistic lighting, which isn't to say natural light.

Artificial light is used because you can control it better. Technically, it is more homogeneous, more delicate, and less damaging to artwork. But I think it's interesting when the visitor can see variations in the light, when it is not only technical or suitable.

I've never been one for color theory or color wheels or undertone rules or anything like that. I don't know if my red lipstick 'should' be more blue or more orange.