Earlier in the week I wrote about some lighting experimentation that I did. I have zero lighting equipment and used regular room lighting, a white reflector, and one of these
silver clamp lights with a CFL (which has a color temperature of 3000). How and why the 3000 is relevant I am not sure, because the only information I can find indicates that it creates a spectrum of light which contain both more orange and more blue. So yeah, try correcting that.
Ok so looking at this picture of Clay that I took the other night (untouched):
1/50, f/4.8, white balance set to white flourescent
I did not have time to play with the settings because, well, let's not go there. Suffices to say I could not take the shot with a variety of white balance adjustments. Having thought about and read a little I expect a "cool white" setting might have balanced out the green cast. Hard tellin' not knowin'.
I kind of like the shadows in this shot, but with more time I'd have liked to go for uniform soft lighting, too. I wonder if I'd used 2 of the clamp lights (1 on each side) and reflected light from the front if that would have done it. I also would've liked to have tried fill flash with the compensation notched down. And, thanks to a Flickr friend, it's now impossible to get past the blue cast on his left eye. So I like this one:
So, that's all I've got to say about that (in my best Forrest Gump voice).
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