Off-camera flash can be wonderful for portraiture. It picks out your subject and gives your shots a unique style. But many of us who use it pay little attention to the colour temperature of the light our flash is blasting out. By controlling the colour and our camera’s white balance settings, we can create all kinds of interesting effects.
Measured in degrees Kelvin, colour temperature is a scale for the colour of light, from warm orange shades (lower Kelvin value) to cool blue shades (higher Kelvin value). Natural light shifts back and forth along the scale at different times of day, from morning warmth to midday cool to sunset warmth again. We can alter our camera’s white balance so no matter the colour of the light, white objects appear white in our
