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Learn About Studio Lighting - 2

...There are three main ways to overcome this yellow light problem. First, you can put a filter on the lens of the cameral that will allow you to use any daylight film. You can also use tungsten balanced color film. This is probably the easiest and most sound way to balance for a tungsten light source.

Though these two solutions will make an improvement of a yellow light situation, they also both have a big problem. As a tungsten bulbs lives out its life, the filament inside the bulb leaves a little bit of tungsten residue on the inside surface of the glass envelope in the bulb.

What this means for you and photographers around the globe is that not only do tungsten bulbs produce yellow light, but this light becomes progressively more yellow over time, so that you will constantly be readjusting your yellow light fixes.

Obviously, if you are shooting digitally or using print film, color cast can be corrected when printing, but slides cannot be fixed! Therefore, the third correction for tungsten continuous lighting is simply to shoot in black and white.

Lighting styles and accessories is not a difficult thing to understand. You will be surprised how little people actually know about it, and that is why they are in the dark. Now that you know all about studio lighting, you are set to go and get more lighting.

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