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Originally Posted by 3M TA3
Nice post...
Doesn't Pro Lighting gear also have a certian frequency of light that is hard to obtain from household fixtures?
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well for digital you can batch process for white balance. in an earlier age (film era) expensive HMI hot lights put out a very white light (5000-5600 kelvin) so you could shoot daylight film in the studio, but this is unnecessay now.
as another poster said you well get a greenish look if your try to shoot under flourescent light with your camera set on auto.
the basic problem for amateur shooters is this---it is the balancing of correct color temperature and the mixture of color temps of different light sources which makes tweaking white balance very difficult unless you're using reference white balance charts...and as bulbs age they give off different color temps (usually getting warmer WB as they age) so this needs to be watched carefully.
folks don't understand that when shooting skin WB is VERY important for pleasing images and i will even go so far as to say it WILL effect ones income if you are in the business of getting signups.
so a basic understanding of WB really is necessary before you begin doing batch correcting (green is opposite magenta, yellow is opposite blue, etc).
pros will NEVER let an incorrectly balanced image see the light of day. period.
green girls usually do not sell so well.