Flash with filter

Horst · 2014-02-15T08:13:21+0000

Hi, I'm normally not to keen on using the flash. However sometimes it is the only way. It always looked to me to cold. i tried to use various White balance settings, but this didn't seem to work that well. Plus I then forgot to set it back to dayligt during normal operation. I bought this Tiffen 812 filter. This seem to work well. The colours are warmer and very close to the original I've added two pictures to show the difference. The first without and the second with the filter. The lens was the 77mm f 1.8 set to f8. Without filter. This one is with the Tiffen 812 Filter. The colours are correct. Especially the speaker cloth, The Flash I used was Pentax AF200T on the Auto setting Regards, Horst

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Posted 03/03/2014 - 19:21 Link

We had a talk from a lighting man who suggested the cold/bluish flash could "bring out" the purple of veins particularly.

This enhancement could not be easily undone in post processing and better to reduce it at source.

A little warming of the lighting/flash with a filter would reduce this.

Not tried it yet but when I get a particularly scrawny or veiny person I'll put something pink on the flash ....

Lurking is shirking.!