

One thing that I like about this light being USB powered is that when I turn my computer off it turns off. You may know about the bias that your least favorite cable news channel has, but do you know about bias lighting? In short, bias lighting is a soft light source behind your computer (or TV) that helps you perceive the contrast and colors of your monitor more accurately and prevents eye fatigue and all the problems associated with it (headaches, bad eye sight by the end of the day, etc.). A safer bet would be to stick to neutral colors for your other walls and tweak your room lighting when it's time to color grade so you're not bouncing all sorts of hues onto your monitor area. Assuming that you're not color grading 100% of the time, you can definitely paint the rest of your room a different color, just be mindful of how the lights in your room are bouncing off of your hot pink accent wall when it comes time for video editing/color grading. If you want to go all the way (like me) you can paint your entire room this color, but it's most important to have this color around the wall(s) that are around your computer monitor. Don't believe me? Look at this before and after: It wasn't until I swapped out all of the lightbulbs in my office to very high quality 6500K bulbs that I realized just how off it was. The problem that I mentioned before though is that my eyeballs are so good that they tricked me into thinking my office looked fine. Add my 6500K iMac display into the mix and we've got a pretty grody casserole cooking up in my office. If I had to guess, the overhead fluorescents are around 4100K with a nasty dose of green hue and my IKEA lamp had super warm tungsten bulbs (cause I replaced the ones that came with it) that were probably about 2800K to create those nice warm moody vibes so I can feel extra creative.
Displaycal correction windows#
In my office I have no outside windows and I have two overhead fluorescent lights and a lamp from IKEA that I stole from my living room at home. Here's what I did: Step #1 - Adjust My Room Lighting
Displaycal correction professional#
Over the years I've edited and color graded my films in all sorts of different environments, but since I recently moved into an office that was all mine, I took a page from professional colorists and dialed in my entire environment to be as accurate as can be I could afford. While that is certainly true, as the original creator of the content it's important that your work at least starts off exactly as you originally intended it - that your reds are red, your whites are white, and that you're blues are, uh, blue.? Now some of you might be jumping ahead and saying to yourself, "What does it matter if people are going to be watching my videos on all sorts of different screens in different lighting conditions?". With that being the case, the closer you can get your editing environment to also be 6500K, the more accurate you'll be able to view the colors on your screen.
Displaycal correction tv#
While there are some new technologies that adapt to different lighting (I'm looking at you iPhones with your fancy Night Shift and True Tone modes), the majority of our computers that we're editing and color correcting/grading our work on have a color temperature of 6500K (you're church's projectors and TV monitors should be 6500K as well). aren't nearly as adaptable as our eyeballs, so in order to make sure we're seeing the colors in our videos accurately we need to bring our eyeballs down to a playing field that is level with our equipment. The problem with this is that the technology we're dealing with - cameras, lights, computer monitors, etc.
