Color Temperature questions. Best Color Reproduction?

[VIAN]

It is said that for best color reproduction, to set your monitor color temp to 6500. This lets more Red into the picture than blue or green.

My approach is to make the Picture as close to real-life as possible:

Why is the sky blue? The sky is blue because the earth's atmosphere lets much more blue light in than any other color.

So the world is tinted blue, so why is it that in monitors we tint it more red, by letting more red into the picture?

 

[firerock]

6500 has warm gray while 5000 is cold gray; and 9300 pure white w/ blue tint. If your monitor is good enough that let you manually adjust RGB value, and you want the best color, you should get one of those color calibration hardware. It will give you the best color and manage your color profile for you.

Another question is, what is real-life color? Everyone depict color differently due to their pupils. Your 100 red will never be the same 100 red as mine. So, seeing is not acurate, but getting a good hardware color calibration tool will help you find the best combination. Of course, you can always adjust your monitor color temperature to your liking. But don't expect everyone to see the same image/color tone when you email your photos to your friends, or vice versa. And, don't forget about ambient lighting when you work, that also affect the color tone on monitor as well.

 

[VIAN]

But everyone can agree that the sky is blue. - those that see in color.

 

[gcogger]

Natural daylight has a colour temperature of around 5000K - 6500K, depending on time of day. If it's overcast it can be a little higher, say 7500K. (Typical light bulbs are < 3000K). So setting a monitor to 9300K is much bluer than anything you find in nature.

 

[VIAN]

Link to validity of your information.

And if so, why would it be that when I get home and look at the monitor with 6500k, it looks unnatural?

http://www.3drender.com/glossary/colortemp.htm

I like partly cloudiness.