First of all, let me state that I am sending this message twice: This version was sent using my "alias"--actually, my real name--paul.stregevsky--in the Reply To field, rather than my ISP's stupid default username (vze2vg3x). Several messages I've posted have not shown up in the Digest, and now I'll know which version works.
I urge you to try fitting your light sockets with Geneal Electric's new blue-tinted lightbulbs and floodlights, Reveal (http://www.gelighting.com/na/home/index.html). Reveal was designed to imitate sunlight and in my opinion does an excellent job. For the sake of natural photos, I'd love to put a Reveal in every light socket in my house. But the rest of my family claims not to see the difference. At Home Depot the bulbs cost little more than standard yellowish bulbs. Home Depot has a side-by-side display where you can hold your hald under a regular bulb, then under a Reveal. Reveal not only looks better, it reveals more detail. My local photolab/dealer does a fairly good job at filtering out the yellow in my prints. But he appreciates that I give him a dense negative. Typically I'll use 800 film shot at ISO 400 or 640, or shot at 800 or 1000 but push-processed to 1600. My understanding is that heavy filtering (e.g., -2EV of a given color) is subtractive and requires a nice, dense neg or there will be little left to print. "C or B Waters" wrote: > Sometimes I wish to take available light pictures in my house. The living > room walls are Yellow and we have regular light bulbs. Mostly this gives me > a pronounced Yellow tint to the color prints. > What can I do to negate this "problem"? -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
