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Tungsten Balance

A camera white balance near 3200 K renders tungsten-like illumination near neutral while daylight sources appear comparatively blue.

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This previewGrok · 10 seconds measuredA map seller closes a display drawer beside a dusk-facing window, leaving a paper map on the counter.Preview sources — switch models above.

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Tungsten Balance

This is the default recipe for the Tungsten-Balanced Mixed Light family.

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Prompt rule: Lock the white reference near the tungsten source and retain the cooler daylight zone. Moving materials change color with spatial illumination; do not neutralize each source separately in post.

Tungsten Balance: A camera white balance near 3200 K renders tungsten-like illumination near neutral while daylight sources appear comparatively blue. Keep the subject readable; motivate camera and light.

Technique guide

When to use
Keep the cold area by the window and the neutral warm area under the lamp in the same indoor picture, and use the character to move to show the source difference.
How it works
Confirm the white reference with the paper under the table lamp, and then keep the different color temperatures on the window side without aligning the white area by area./Let the sleeves in and out of the window light area, and leave the paper on the countertop as a continuous reference.
Common mistakes
Both lights are partially calibrated to white./Claims that the 3,200 K setting will inevitably warm up the whole picture.

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8 seconds · single take

Cairo, 1938, at dusk: in his cluttered shop, an old map dealer closes the display drawer, leaving on the counter the desert map a young explorer has paid for with his last coins.

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