Tim, As you have a D70, I recommend an alternative to the generally good suggestion offered below. Use the D70's Preset White Balance. This color-meters the light and sets the white balance appropriately. I've been shooting is mixed and strange light lately. In these environments, I carry a piece of white printer paper in my shirt pocket. When lighting conditions change, I set focus at infinity and expose the CCD to the paper held by hand in front of the lens to set white balance. Very easy after doing it a couple times. In your case, I can imagine something like the following. If your environment is lighted by incandescent lights, first put an amber gel over the flash to make flash and ambient consistent. Then preset the white balance as described in pages 52-55 of the D70 manual. You might want a large (3 ft x 4 ft) white poster board so you can have the flash a reasonable distance from the reference object. If ambient is fluorescent, use the appropriate green gel. The manual mentions using a gray card, which is OK, but the camera's auto exposure will make any neutral object 18% gray, so the tone of the reference object is pretty much irrelevant - it just has to be neutral. A pure bright white surface is fine. ... David B -----Original Message----- From: owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of freddig@xxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 7:25 AM To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students Subject: Re: Fw: Suggestions and Recomendations needed Tim, Just one caveat, I would not set the white balance on "auto" because clothing colors will make a difference in overall color. Use instead a "daylight" or "flash" setting and all your photos will be consistent and even if you're off a bit, easily correctable in Photoshop using curves. Good luck. Fred --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.778 / Virus Database: 525 - Release Date: 10/15/2004
