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Deep teal shadows and warm practical lights, with skin held back from the teal.
Tungsten Night
Shooting at night under street lamps usually gives you one muddy orange mess. This look cools the whole frame toward blue while keeping the lamps and lit windows warm, so the scene separates into cool and warm areas the way night scenes in films do.
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Use it on
Streets, cars and buildings after dark, evening vlogs in the city, and portraits lit by a single warm light.
Skip it on
Daylight footage. It will make a sunny day look cold and strange. It is also not meant for indoor scenes lit entirely by warm bulbs, because there is nothing cool for it to work with.
Good to know
On log footage use the version for your camera. The plain file on log will look washed out and wrong.
Similar looks
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Lifted blacks, quiet color and a cool cast in the shadows, for grey-day travel and calm food shots.
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Late-sun warmth in the highlights, a little blue left in the shadows. Greens step back so faces lead.