Interesting. That bulb (superbrightleds.com WLED-5) is listed as being 12 Lumens, 8000k 8000k!! That's very blue. Arguably - depending on other light sources around that cause your eyes to compare - "Pure White" is 5000K. I might give in to arguments for 6000K, since Sunlight can go all over the place from sunsets to 15000K blue skys. but the color temperature for Sunlight at Noon in mid-latitudes is listed as 5400K.
Anyway, I'm gonna go and say, it's Blue! I'm shooting for the 5500K WLED-WHP9 for both power and color as OJ Bartley did.
Problem with posting pics of lighting is that ALL digital cameras have an Automatic White Balance! This means that the camera interprets its sensor data and moves the color temperature (within a certain amt) to remove any hue-ing.
There are two ways to fix this:
1: Set the white balance to a neutral setting ("neutral" is that objective?) for all the shots.
2: Use a digital SLR (or similar camera that can take photos in RAW format) and then reset the white balance for all the shots to the same thing in a program like Adobe Lightroom or Camera RAW for Photoshop. This method will actually allow you to set that fixed point manually to match something else such as your memory of the lights, the Mfgs Kelvin specs, or the readings from a lightmeter.
Then, in some perfect world, we would have accurate photos of lighting compared. IMHO
BTW - Bulb manufacturers are aware of this, at least their photographers and art department are. That's why the usually adjust the photos to look whatever they want, knowing that without careful calibration, most photos are subjective. Next time you see a photo of white headlights in an advert, check the color of the lighting in photoshop or something, and you'll notice that it's perfect, to One sixteen-millionths of a hue WHITE. This is only possbile with over exposure or photoshop artwork.
Anyway, I've waxed on too far. Perhaps I'll have to start a thread to accumulate all of our lighting info here on the forums in one spot.
Anyway, I'm gonna go and say, it's Blue! I'm shooting for the 5500K WLED-WHP9 for both power and color as OJ Bartley did.
Problem with posting pics of lighting is that ALL digital cameras have an Automatic White Balance! This means that the camera interprets its sensor data and moves the color temperature (within a certain amt) to remove any hue-ing.
There are two ways to fix this:
1: Set the white balance to a neutral setting ("neutral" is that objective?) for all the shots.
2: Use a digital SLR (or similar camera that can take photos in RAW format) and then reset the white balance for all the shots to the same thing in a program like Adobe Lightroom or Camera RAW for Photoshop. This method will actually allow you to set that fixed point manually to match something else such as your memory of the lights, the Mfgs Kelvin specs, or the readings from a lightmeter.
Then, in some perfect world, we would have accurate photos of lighting compared. IMHO
BTW - Bulb manufacturers are aware of this, at least their photographers and art department are. That's why the usually adjust the photos to look whatever they want, knowing that without careful calibration, most photos are subjective. Next time you see a photo of white headlights in an advert, check the color of the lighting in photoshop or something, and you'll notice that it's perfect, to One sixteen-millionths of a hue WHITE. This is only possbile with over exposure or photoshop artwork.
Anyway, I've waxed on too far. Perhaps I'll have to start a thread to accumulate all of our lighting info here on the forums in one spot.
