Forum: Photography


Subject: Light test

promiselamb opened this issue on Mar 07, 2009 · 59 posts


MGD posted Sun, 08 March 2009 at 10:16 PM

4 lights that all have soft boxes and they dont flash they stay on
 all the time.. not nuts about them they turn all my images yellow lol

What kind of bulbs are installed? 

You need to consider Color Temperature.  Check this Color Temperature Chart
and this page on Correlated Color Temperature (CCT)

Your bulbs might be Tungsten at 3400 Kelvin
... but you might want Daylight or Flash at 5500 to 5600 Kelvin. 

BTW, Tungsten at 3400 Kelvin isn't necessarily wrong ... in fact, it would
be the best lighting for film that is balanced for that kind of light source. 

Aaaaaahhhhhh ... but then again, you aren't shooting film. 

--Martin