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Studio Lighting Tools

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I've always had a problem with color mixes whenever I've attempted studio portraits. For instance, my flashes are color balanced to "daylight"... and when we are indoors in a makeshift studio, most of the lights lighting the room are either incandescent or fluorescent. The problem is that incandescent lighting is much warmer than daylight creating a yellow or orange color cast... and flourescent lighting is much colder than daylight creating green to blue color casts. Needless to say, this is a problem and it has always drove me nuts whenever I've attempted studio photography. Turning off all ambient lighting makes seeing anything in the room impossible. It also makes focusing the camera impossible since nothing can be seen in darkness. I knew that I needed some sort of light to light the room. Using dim ambient lighting at a fraction of the brightness of your studio strobes can work but can also cause mild color casts in your portrait studio photography wh

A Quick Portrait Session

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I rarely will take on a portrait session, or any photography session for that matter, simply because it takes too much out of me and any activity impacts my health in a negative way but... sometimes there are exceptions! A good friend of ours, Judy, called us last week asking if I could shoot one photo of her for work. There was a rather short deadline and the project seemed simple enough... One headshot on a black background, traditional portrait orientation, a jpeg file emailed to her corporate office. I happen to enjoy photography as an enthusiastic hobbyist when my health allows and I have the equipment as well as the experience necessary for a small photography project like this one so I felt this was a favor I could easily tackle! I was feeling pretty good, healthwise, when I spoke to Judy so we scheduled a time to do a quick portrait session...   As luck would have it, my health suddenly declined in the next couple of days so we needed to reschedule this session. This h