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Old 08-24-2005, 12:44 AM  
Paul Markham
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Originally Posted by Tat2Jr
Right now I'm just using my 3200° video hot lights, and geling my flash with the tungsun gel. Then setting the white balance to tungsun. In the Nikon capture program I drop the temp down to 2650° on the raw files before pulling them up in photoshop. That seems to keep a real nice warmth, but white looks white. I need to get rid of those damn hot lights and gets some fluorescents. For solo stuff the heat was never a problem, but now I'm in the desert, and the air conditioner can't fight off those lights too.
Buy yourself a set of studio flash lights. Tungsten is wrong for stills work, low light, high heat and pupils effect will give you problems.

Studio lights can be bought for $1500 and it's money well spent. Expect them to last for 500 sets, that's $3 a set.
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