White Balance... low kelvin=bluer and high kelvin=orangey? please help

yes, higher K should be more orange, and lower K should be blue.

The Kelvin measurements measure the color temperature of the place where you are. Outdoors, the color temperature averages 5600k, peaking at around 6500k (not sure on this one) at the sun's peak, and going down to like 2000k at sunset and sunrise. But, as a rule of thumb, outdoors at daylight is 5600k. Indoors, it depends on the lighting you have, and if there are windows. In a studio, the color temp is 3200k, in a room lit with neons, it's around 4000k, in a living room with dimmed light, it's around 2500k-3000k (guessing on this one, but should be around there).

Anyways, the concept is that the lower the color temperature, the more orange the color is, and the higher the color temp, the bluer the color is.

Now for the filters in your camera, those are meant to have the same color temperature in your indoors footage and your outdoors footage. By default, your camera is set up to get the right colors at 3200k color temp. Now if you go outside, and use it in this mode, everything's gonna be blue. So most prosumer/pro cameras have a built in 5600k filter, which makes 5600k look like 3200k. So it makes the blue color more orange. Now by the time I was done writing this I completely forgot what kind of camera you have, so I don't know if you have a 5600k filter, but this should help you grasp the concept of color temperature.

Hope this helps, feel free to ask any questions

Yeah that's the confusing part, higher temps are bluer, and blue is a cold color. But think of it as the higher the color temp, the more intense the light is, and more intense lights are bluer, whereas dimmed lights are orange

oooooohhhhh man u nailed it. this makes sense now thanks a lot +k i totally udnerstand

i know nothing on the topic, but this is what wikipedia says

"Color temperatures over 5,000K are called cool colors (blueish white), while lower color temperatures (2,700–3,000 K) are called warm colors (yellowish white through red).[1]"

Just because blue is a warmer temp doesn't mean if you set your camera for a higher temp that the whites are blue it means the whites are white at that temperature.