 Amber scollick |
More help with White Backgrounds
I am shooting with a Nikon-D50 ; I have an Alien Bee 800 and I have (2) 150 Watt lights for the side and back.. I am still getting the most awful tan / pinkish colors and am having a terrible time. Here are some shots I took..I want pure white backgrounds. My model is 3 feet tall ; maybe I need to raise or lower my lights ( I have tried but she is getting impatient ) ?? I am running out of ideas. I really need some help :) Amber
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Robyn Mackenzie |
You can try going into Levels, clicking on the right eyedropper, then clicking on an area of the background that you want to be pure white. This will be a good start. If levels overdoes the effect on your model, then you can history brush back in those areas.
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robert G. Fately |
Amber, my guess is that the pink color is the result of the 5000 degree flash unit blending with the 3400K lamps. I imagine your camera is set to daylight balance (which is about 5000K). Since electronic flashes are designed to produce a light color temperature that matches outdoor sunny-day light, the flash alone would give you white. however, the tungsten incandescent lamps burn cooler - and so produce a light that tends towards the red/orange end of the spectrum. While our eyes cannot see this difference, mechanical systems (film and chips) that don't have the immense image-processing power of retinas and brains behind them read them in their true colors. So, the reddish light from the 150W lights combined with the more pure white light from the flash gives you that pink shade. You could put appropriate color correcting filters over the 150W bulbs (the filters would be blue) or replace them with small flash units or put an orange filter over the AlienBee and set the camera to 3400K.
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