Comments on: 02 – flash + ambient light

By: Neil vN

Neil vN — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 02:47:44 +0000

hi there, You will have to gel your flash for the tungsten lights. Neil vN

By: Suwat Upathambhakul

Suwat Upathambhakul — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 01:57:41 +0000

Dear Sir

need your advice, if we use tungsten lamp(s) surrounding model, and would like to fill light with flash, do we have problem on different color temperature ? should we fix it and how to fix.

rgds, suwat u.

By: Neil

Neil — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:22:47 +0000

Dwayne, so far my approach has been one of overpowering fluorescent lighting with flash. In other words, I under-expose the ambient light (fluorescent), and have flash as my dominant source of light. The problem with filtering for fluorescent is that the colour balance of fluorescent lighting can vary dramatically, depending on design, brand and age of the tubes. So it is simpler usually just to drown it out with flash. Earlier this year I did have the intention of photographing a model in a building where there was a lot of fluorescent lighting, with the idea of writing a tutorial about it .. but it ended up being great light to use as it is. But I do have it on my list of future Tangents posts. Neil vN

By: Dwayne Zimmerman

Dwayne Zimmerman — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 03:35:16 +0000

How do I slay the “green beast”? Maybe I missed it in your book or on this site. I know you have talked about florescent lighting but I’m not getting good results. I’m using a D200 with SB-900. I’ve set WB to florescent and also to “A”. I’ve added various shades of green gel and I still end up with a mild to strong blue tint. Other than going to my Quantum T2 to overpower the florescent lights is there something else I need to do?