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Lighting in indoor rm w/ tungsten & fluorescents
ALoha all! Just had a question about what to do for best white balance on a Canon 20d when shooting indoors in a room that is lit w/ a mix of tungsten and fluorescent lights. I was using a 420EX flash and ended up w/ alot of yellowish hued pictures w/ the camera on AWB settings. I did try to use the tungsten and fluorescent settings but it didnt solve the problem. I ended up editing the pics in PS and cleaning up alot w/ auto-leveling etc. anyone else have suggestions? Kinda hard to custom WB bc I cant shoot at both lights either  Mahalo, Elliot Jan 06 06 07:25 pm Link One thing you can do is try the Expodisc. Some people also put a bleached white coffee filter over the front of their lens & shoot... Just stand in the middle of the room & fure off a shot w/ the filter on the lens. Do the shot exactlt how you'd do it when shooting. (use flash, & let the exposure do it's thing) Then select CWB & choose that image. It will be the best that you can do in the setting... Shoot CR2 & if you need to tweak, you can... Paul Jan 06 06 07:30 pm Link Mixed Tungsten, strobe and fluro are going to cause you to make a choice. You can correct out one of the lights, but the other two will still be off.... so when setting up your shots, you need to decide to either shoot for the strobe, and live with the yellow and green of fluros, or shoot for the tungsten, and let the strobe go blue and the fluros go green, or shoot for the fluros and deal with the others...... So, to lessen the equation, if the ambient light is up enough, or the light from tungsten, use it instead of flash as main, and then the fluros will go greenish and live/use that to your advantage. Or, turn the strobe up where its way above ambient apertures, and shoot faster shutter speed to keep the others at bay... Myriads of possibilities. Jan 06 06 10:28 pm Link Thanks for the reply ... the more i learn, it seems that the more questions pop up! Mahalo, E Jan 06 06 11:23 pm Link Photography by Elliot wrote: As noted here and elsewhere (softbox vs white balance thread), when you have lighting of different colors, you're going to have more work to correct. Jan 07 06 12:16 am Link |
