Recently I was asked to lecture at a college for a course in advanced cinematography. The professor asked that I include color theory in my lecture and at first, I was a little overwhelmed at the ...

White light is made of a spectrum of different colours. Light can be split up into these separate colours using a prism. There are three primary colours of light, which can be combined to make ...

Photometers or light meters are radiometers that include a filter and photodiode and responds based on the average human eye: the CIE 1924 luminosity function V λ. However, the light sensitive diode ...

When we discuss colour in filmmaking, we're usually interested being – well – correct. But we might also talk about the steel blue of night, an amber sunset, or the greenish tinge that comes from ...

Filters transmit some colours of light and absorb other colours of light. Colours which are transmitted pass through the filter and come out the other side. Colours which are absorbed do not pass ...

Engineers at Stanford have created a new optical device that can easily manipulate light into basically any color desired. The system uses a series of modulators to fine-tune the frequencies of ...