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- From: bbarton@Ingres.COM (Brian Barton)
- Subject: Re: mixed light, film, and filters
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.180502.25553@pony.Ingres.COM>
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- Date: 20 Nov 92 18:05:02 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov20.005403.16161@donner.SanDiego.NCR.COM>, ralandc@tara.SanDiego.NCR. writes...
- > I have some questions concerning the use of filters and film types
- >in mixed light photography. There often occassions when it is possible
- >to have light from many different sources in a single setting. For
- >example, it is quite reasonable to have daylight coming in from a window,
- >both tungsten and flouresent bulbs overhead, and flash being used as a fill.
- >All of these light sources are of different temperatures. Also, there
- >are films which are balanced for a particular type of light (temperature).
- >For example, there are both daylight film and tungsten film. Lastly, I am
- >familiar with filters which can be used to provide correction when using
- >a particular film with a light source of a different temperature. An example
- >might be a setting which is illuminated with tungsten lights and using
- >daylight film and a filter for correction. My question is:
- >
- > What do you do when you may have multiple temperature light sources
- > as described above? Is there an easy way to caluculate what the best
- > film type might be? and the correct compensation filters if any?
- >
- >
- >========================================================================
- >|) /|| /||\||\ /~ /| /|/| /||) /| | Raland Camara
- >|\/ ||_/ || ||/ \_/ |/ | |/ ||\/ | | ralandc@tara.sandiego.NCR.COM
-
- The answer to your question is YES! This can be difficult, but it's
- a process of elimination sort of deal.
-
- What you do is eliminate all but ONE of the types of light and shoot and
- filtrate for that type.
-
- e.g. Shut off the tungsten bulbs AND the flourescent tubes and just use the
- window light. (Or some other combination to your choosing.) You could also
- block ALL of the window light and shut-off all of the tungsten sources
- and filtrate for the flourescents.
-
- It's that simple, but make sure to check to make sure that your camera and
- flash are appropriately filtered (or un-filtered) for the ambient light that
- is left over.
-
- I once had an assignment where I had to shoot an "environmental portrait"
- in a police department with BOTH floursecent light and day-light in the room
- as the primary "ambient" light. Since I couldn't shut off the floursecents
- in the hallway I was in, (They were centrally controlled for the whole
- building and I couldn't unscrew the bulbs from their fixture) I shot day-light
- film with a day-light strobe-set up and "prayed" that I'd minimize the
- invevitable green ambient light. I provided some of my own ambient "daylight"
- with the strobes and it worked out without a trace of green. I was taking a
- risk (and was too lazy to do a polaroid), but you could always try that
- approach. Good luck.
-
-
- Cheers!
-
- Brian
-
- bbarton@ingres.com
-