On: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 Philip Wolmuth wrote: > Well, it seems I started this interesting and useful thread under > false pretences: when I arrived at the studio I found it lit with > some sort of unidentifiable (to me) studio lights bounced off a very > high ceiling. No fluorescent tubes in sight. Nevertheless I went > ahead as planned, shooting on colour neg (NPH) and fairly confident, > after reading the replies on this list, that I could correct any > colour cast in Photoshop. > I am very happy with the results. The pictures turned out to have a > rather pleasing warm tone which needs virtually no correction. > Working in this way, shooting on colour neg in available light and > sorting out possible colour casts in PS, is a welcome return to the > flexibility of fly-on-the-wall B&W reportage. Thanks to all those who > replied to my original posting.
When shooting with colour neg in mixed lighting, be sure to give plenty of exposure. In this way you can filter in or out whatever you want in PS, so long as the information is embedded within the neg before scanning. Philip Chudy is entirely correct about shooting under solo-source flourescent, as the tubes emit a discontinous spectrum of light with 'peaks' that are almost impossible to filter out. best William Curwen =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
