What Effects Do Tungsten Lights Create?

Indoor lighting and candlelight: Tungsten lights are most commonly used at low temperatures, which naturally produce magenta, red, orange, and yellow overtones. This creates the effect of indoor incandescent lighting and even candlelight. Skin tones look particularly pleasing under tungsten lights.

Simulated natural daylight: At higher color temperatures, a tungsten source can produce brighter tones. When combined with a blue color-correction gel, a high-temperature tungsten light can produce the blue light the human eye perceives as daylight color.

Muted blue light: Tungsten light gets bluer when the lamps are run at higher temperatures on the Kelvin scale. Still, the color of the light does not produce the piercing whites and blues associated with fluorescent light. To achieve a cool white or blue cast, directors and cinematographers often opt for fluorescent lamps.