2 HOURS Off-camera flash can be great for portraiture; you can use it to pick out your subject, and give your images a unique style. But many of us who use it pay little attention to the colour temperature of the light our flash is blasting out, and by controlling the colour, and our camera’s white balance settings, we can create all kinds of interesting effects.
Measured in degrees Kelvin, colour temperature describes the ‘colour’ of light, from warm orange shades (lower Kelvin values) to cool blue shades (higher values). Natural light shifts back and forth along the scale at different times of day, from morning warmth to midday cool to sunset warmth again. We can alter our camera’s white balance so that no matter the colour of the light, white objects appear
