At 07:35 1/13/01, you wrote:
Any ideas as to why the yellow tone?
Incandescent lighting?
The second question answers the first one. The film you used is balanced
for "daylight." The flash is also balanced to provide
"daylight." Incandescent light is not the same as daylight. It has much
less blue and much more yellow and red. Our brains to a marvelous job of
automagically providing color correction filtering and balancing what we
see. Film doesn't.
Compare this one done available light inside a church:
http://johnlind.tripod.com/donnaruss/dr26.html
with this one done using flash inside the same church a couple minutes later:
http://johnlind.tripod.com/donnaruss/dr27.html
There was a fair amount of daylight coming through the windows, and I did
color balance the scans. It's much more noticeable in the
prints. However, you can still see a slight yellowish cast in the first
one making it appear "warmer" than the second (look at the organ
pipes). It's the incandescent floods in the church ceiling. Be glad the
room wasn't illuminated with fluorescent lighting! The yellowish warmth
isn't so bad compared to the ugly greenish hue that results from using
daylight film available light and uncorrected under fluorescent lamps.
You can try an 80A color correction filter for "tungsten" light to
"daylight" film. These filters are for tungsten studio floodlights, not
ordinary household lamps which are even "warmer." The filter is a deep
blue with a 4X correction factor (4X = two stops; ISO 200 effectively
becomes ISO 50). You can also use tungsten balanced film . . . if you know
you are going to shoot the entire roll available light under incandescent
lighting.
-- John
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