Light is light, right? Not exactly. The light that comes from the overhead fluorescents at your office is probably nothing like the light that pours from your favorite chandelier at home or that of ...
It’s tough getting the right color temperature for a space, but luckily, the Lighting Doctor, Randall Whitehead, is here to help! See how Whitehead’s advice helped this reader better understand the ...
Some lighting manufacturers quip that their products have better color temperature than others, and you might see a number that correlates to “color temperature” on the side of the box of a 4-foot ...
Back in the age of incandescent lights we only had one color temperature to choose for studio production. Until fairly recently, studio lighting was almost exclusively incandescent. There were a few ...
We’ve noted before that LED lights are, while energy efficient, a bit cool in color, leading to the “my house looks like an operating room” effect. There have been attempts to warm them up (with ...
As the world transitions away from ordinary incandescent lighting and toward more energy-efficient light sources, the topic of light-source color temperature has suddenly become more important.