Just a guess, I haven't shot much digital and digital cameras will vary in the speed at which they can white balance when set to "auto" If your white balance is set to auto your camera may be balancing by the modeling lamps and ambient light rather than the much stronger but shorter duration electronic flash which is a higher color temp/bluer light. The solution is probably to manually set your white balance in the future. darkroommike ---------- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Russell Baker" <rebphoto@pronetisp.net> To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students" <photoforum@listserver.isc.rit.edu> Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 3:25 PM Subject: color me confused.............(so what else is new) > Hi Gang............. > > Last night I was taking some Head Shots of some > theatrical performers on location at their theatre. > > I brought in my portable studio. > > White back drop with back light. > > Main and fill lights are White Lightning 5000's > shot through soft boxes. > > Olympus E-10 set on manual > > I used a flash meter for setting the exposure. > > > Even though I didn't change the lighting scheme > or exposures, on many of the shots the flesh tones > shifted from normal to a bit cyan. > > Now I can correct this in Photo Shop., > > But I am wondering what happened? > > > I was using auto White Balance....................... > > I was dumping a lot of light on the white back > drop that was about 3 ft behind the subject. > > Could have all that white light bouncing back at me > cause a color shift with the camera set on Auto White Balance? > > Usually I manually set it to 6500 degrees. > This time I forgot. > > Thanks > > > Russ > R.E. Baker > Photography > rebphoto@pronetisp.net > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
