Mixed light reception: calmer LED colour on wedding stages
Most reception stages mix warm tungsten with coloured LED washes, and faces end up half orange, half purple. This look neutralises the white balance, turns magenta, purple and blue spill well down and opens the shadows while holding the bright spots.
True to cameraMixed light reception
Drag to compare. Left of the line is True to camera, the plainest look; right of it is Mixed light reception at full strength, rendered from the same file.
| What it does | Neutral white balance, purple and blue LED spill turned well down, open shadows |
|---|---|
| Good for | Receptions, sangeet stages, banquet halls with LED walls |
When we'd reach for it
Wedding receptions, sangeet and mehndi stages, banquet halls and conference stages with LED backdrops.
When we wouldn't
Concerts where the coloured light is the show. Concert stage keeps more of it and goes darker.
The recipe
These are the settings stored in the look, drawn rather than listed. They sit on top of your camera's own colour and the exposure and white balance CullTone sets for each photo, so the same look lands a little differently on every frame.
Every look has a strength from 0 to 1.5. At 0 you get the plain camera-matched edit, at 1 the look as drawn here, and above 1 more of everything it does. More on reading curves in tone curves for photographers.
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Try Mixed light reception on your own photos
Start a trial, create a project and pick this look. The studio shows it on your frames, at any strength, before anything renders.