How do I get beyond the 50,000 (Kelvin?) in temperature? (my photos are too cool)

[Ester K]

I generally shoot at 5700K, canon 5D mark iii, and later in the evening as we go through the last light the white balance won't be appropriate, but I always forget to change it. When I pull my photos into LR, they are quite cool AND I cannot get them beyond the 50,000 temperature? I need them quite warmer than that. I know it sounds weird, but when your WB is off, you do need that extra... Any ideas how to get things warmer than the 50K? Thanks! Ester

[Rob_Cullen · Accepted solution]

Not the perfect answer- but 'quick and easy':

Try the Tone Curve- pull the Blue channel down. (and make a Preset?)

[Ester K]

RAW small. Normally I think I'd say what the heck, why do you need to get beyond 50K???? I think it's actually something going on with the presets I'm using. I shoot at 5700K, small RAW, canon, and when it's close to that end-of-daylight, and I apply the preset it takes to to over 30K right away, so there isn't much more up that I can go. I'll contact the guy that created these, wondering if others are having an issue... Meantime it would be nice if I could just go over 50K in temp

[Rob_Cullen]

I am curious to know what type of photo needs >50,000K ?

If shot at 5700K then the original should look 'as it was' .

And if you are using a preset, what is it designed to do?

You know you can always inspect the Develop panels to see the effects of a Preset, and also modify and save another version of a preset.

[KR Seals]

Are you shooting in Raw or Jpeg?  Raw files have a much greater range of adjustment.

[rccf12345678]

Yes you can go beyond 50k Kelvin

I was in a event for photoshoot and they put extremely deep blue neon light for the whole light set up, after I went maximum (50,000) in Lightroom, I right click and edited in in photoshop camera raw filter section. Not perfect but can save your images

[Rob_Cullen]

Interesting! I have been in that situation where the only light was UV. There is difficult White Balance when you have one light frequency, it can only be desaturated or changed to another color/hue.

Nice experimenting with the added Ps Camera raw filter. Thanks.