Re: Kelvin Relevance in Fine Art?
Re: Kelvin Relevance in Fine Art?
- Subject: Re: Kelvin Relevance in Fine Art?
- From: Mark Muse <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 17:34:11 -0500
I have never measured north skylight but I would guess it to be 8000º K
or higher, depending on latitude, date, humidity, cloud cover, etc. It
is cold. Yes, it does vary in color throughout the day and throughout
the year but it became a standard of sorts long before anyone knew what
a lumen was, let alone the spectral emission of a black body heated to
5000ºK. It was valued because of all of the daylight options, the only
options worth considering then, it was the most consistent. Not because
of the color temperature.
Mark Muse
In his posting of Thu, 3 Feb 2005, writes Michael Shaffer
snip
I thought most artists preferred "northern exposure" ... i,e,.
5000K(?)
Dear Michael
Yes so did I but it does rather beg the question of what colour
temperature is a north facing widow...can we have some numbers please
guys given different sky conditions and times of year, day. This is
of
particular interest to me at the moment an I don't have access to a
colour temp meter unfortunately.
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