I've used flash filters. I once used them quite frequently, but I do find them unnecessary, even for wedding receptions and ceremonies. Of the last two receptions I shot, one was in a restaurant with tungsten lighting. The warmer background combined with the cooler flash looked great. The other was in a large banquet hall with a combination of window light and tungsten. Couldn't match both in any case, and a very minor bit of tweaking again produced nice results.
Room 1 (rather dark with tungsten lights. Went for warm look, supplementing light with flash off the ceiling, no filters) http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=5321295&size=lg Room 2 (A mix of tungsten and window light, piano player was in shadow so hit her with flash through a white softbox, no filters) http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=6363403&size=lg I do keep a gold reflector and a couple of gels in my event kit, and I'd use one or the other if my initial shots showed a need. Hasn't happened yet. BTW Bill, you can't really do JCO mode. We all know you're a pussycat at heart:-). In any case, it's wasted on me. Paul On May 21, 2008, at 8:16 PM, William Robb wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Paul Stenquist" > Subject: Re: Another flash topic: Colortemp and filters > > >> No need to be sorry, Bill. With decent PhotoShop skills, lighting >> balance is simple. > >> >>> Sorry Paul. It's just not practical. > > > <JCO Mode> > As Mark mentioned, it can be done on a one off picture with layers > and masks, and hopefully you > don't have a lot of flash fall off to deal with or you can toos the > entire idea out the window. > I wouldn't want to try to do an entire wedding that way. > It's far easier to just filter the flash to close to the ambient > light and use the white balance > to dial in the colour for both flash and ambient. > Back before white balance, I used to do a lot of colourbacking > (filter on flash to match the > ambient, filter on camera to balance both). Being able to use white > balance only removes the > need to filter at the lens. You will still get much nicer results > if you filter the flash. > </JCO Mode> > > William Robb > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above > and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
