FWTempest opened this issue on Jan 16, 2005 ยท 5 posts
sfdex posted Wed, 19 January 2005 at 10:17 AM
Very cool little animation. The dancing light and shadow is very convincing. It looks like someone has just walked by the candle and the turbulence in the air is whipping the candle flame around. As for the color temperature that hdaggers mentions -- he's absolutely correct that candle light is very orange compared to sunlight, or even compared to your halogen desk lamp. But one thing to remember in film and video production is that a cinematographer (or videographer) should balance the light in a scene and match it to the film stock (or white balance the video camera). What this means is that the cinematographer is going to determine what color temp of light in a scene is supposed to be "white" and then either filter the lens or white balance the camera to that color temp. (In the old days of film, you'd use "daylight balanced" or "tungsten balanced" film and then use color correction filters in the filter pack to reach proper color balance. Nowadays, you point your camera at a white card under the light of the scene, press the white balance button, and poof! you're color balanced!) All of this is to say that you could white balance your image to the candle light, and since the human eye automatically white balances to whatever light source you're under, so your image is subjectively correct. Of course, often a cinematographer will intentionally balance the image to a cooler color (higher on the Kelvin scale -- contrary to common sense) to allow the candle flame to appear more orange. It's all a matter of taste. I'm really impressed with the compression, by the way. Is this the DivX codec you download or did it come bundled with C4? - Dex