The Flash Book: How to Fall Hopelessly in Love With Your Flash, and Finally Start Taking the Type of Images You Bought It for in the First Place by Scott Kelby

Author:Scott Kelby
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rocky Nook
Published: 2017-12-18T00:00:00+00:00

How to Deal with Problem Room Light

Shooting people and things indoors can be kind of tricky because indoor scenes are often lit with either fluorescent or tungsten lighting—one gives a greenish color cast, and the other a very yellow color cast (like when you’re in a restaurant or a church for a wedding, etc.). That’s why some flashes ship with a few specific color correction gels to help the white light from your flash mix in with the fluorescent or tungsten light in the room (after all, you don’t want a yellowish scene to suddenly have a beam of white light that looks strangely out of place). If your flash didn’t come with these correction gels, you can buy them from Rogue or MagMod, or even get sheets of them (by Roscoe) from B&H Photo and just cut them yourself (see the next page for more on these). So, putting one of these gels over the front of your flash will help match the light from the flash to the lighting color of the room. For example, with tungsten (also called incandescent) light in the room, you’d add a CTO (orange) gel over the flash to balance the color. It’s as easy as that. Because every room’s light is a little different, it’s not a 100% lock that it will match right on the money, but it will certainly be in the ballpark (also, different levels of lighting have a different color output, like dim tungsten lights in a romantic restaurant have a different color than bright tungsten lights in a meeting room). If you’re shooting in an office (or anywhere with fluorescent lighting), you’d put on a green gel to balance the light from the flash with the light already in the room. But, again, just like with tungsten, these days fluorescent lights come in a wide variety of color temps, so don’t be surprised if it’s not 100% accurate. It’s still way better than not gelling your flash, though.

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