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Photography Tip #44
When it is not cool to be "cool"
When I was learning about processing images I would occasionally read terminology like "the light is a little cool" or "the picture is a little on the cool side". At first when I heard that I was a little stumped, is cool a good or a bad thing? I guess it can be good or bad depending on what you are doing.
Colour temperature is part of white balance. Translation: variations in light can affect the colours in your pictures (specifically the white parts), it can look blueish (cool) or yellowish (warm) or other colours as well. Today I will just stick with what a cool image looks like.
Last weekend I had a family portrait shoot in the morning and we used a lot of shade. I could tell that some of my images were a little on the cool side, like this:

You can make some adjustments to your camera to compensate for the cool light, which I can talk about another day. But in this case I didn't. I was shooting fast and trying to catch the cute looks I was getting. So afterwards, at home on the computer, I used Photoshop to "warm it up" a little. This is the result after a little adjustment in Photoshop:

So it is not always cool to be "cool".
have a nice weekend!