Mixed Source Lighting

[benjikan]

I will be fielding questions regarding mixed source lighting and creative uses in Fashion/Beauty and Advertising.

Feel free to shoot away.

Ben http://www.benjaminkanarek.com

[sakane]

Hi, Ben. I've just started mixing light sources.
1) Ambient incandescent.
2) Flash.
3) Daylight (sometimes).
I've also noted on my first photo shoot, when I mix incandescent light (by draging my shutter) and using flash to bring in my foreground, that the foreground was pretty blue and pretty ugly.
Since then, I've been putting an orange gel over my flash to get a better color balance, but now my skin tones are pink. I shoot in RAW and adjust color balance with LightRoom but, the colors are still off.

Thanks,
Jim Sakane

I will be fielding questions regarding mixed source lighting and creative uses in Fashion/Beauty and Advertising.

Feel free to shoot away.

Ben http://www.benjaminkanarek.com

[benjikan]

Hi, Ben. I've just started mixing light sources.
1) Ambient incandescent.
2) Flash.
3) Daylight (sometimes).
I've also noted on my first photo shoot, when I mix incandescent light (by draging my shutter) and using flash to bring in my foreground, that the foreground was pretty blue and pretty ugly.
Since then, I've been putting an orange gel over my flash to get a better color balance, but now my skin tones are pink. I shoot in RAW and adjust color balance with LightRoom but, the colors are still off.

Thanks,
Jim Sakane

I will be fielding questions regarding mixed source lighting and creative uses in Fashion/Beauty and Advertising.

Feel free to shoot away.

Ben http://www.benjaminkanarek.com

I always balance for skin tones first and let the ambient go where it may. It really comes down to a stylistic decision. If you must get all of the colors spot on, being that flash is cold in relation to tungsten, I suggest using a warming filter on the lens and set your camera to tungsten.

Ben