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Establishing the temperature of an image

Establishing the temperature of an image

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Establishing the temperature of an image

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Some crafts, just by their very nature, will lend themselves well to a specific color temperature when you photograph them. For instance, the example on screen is of a card that I made that is painted to look like a night sky. And when you pull this tab down, it reveals this halo around the moon. Now, while the halo around the moon is yellow, the rest of the card is very dark midnight blue. And it makes sense to me to have an overall blue cast in this photograph, simply because it is a night sky scene when it's being photographed. Likewise, these bunny-shaped needle felted Easter candies that I made to look like a very popular and well-known marshmallow candy that comes out around the holidays has an overall yellow soft warm color temperature to it. And again, that's just based on the very nature of the craft. I made these little needle felted yellow bunnies to look like the original candy. And when they're all placed together, it's got a very warm feeling just by the very nature of…

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