Gothic vampiric shoot

[fred w]

Hey all just after a little advice , I've come up with a idea for a shoot with a model I work with a lot were doing a gothic vampire style shoot inside an old stone wheel house on dart moor in a few weeks. The idea is to have her surrounded by candles and occult symbols and I was wondering if all the candle light will end up suing white ballance issues and if anyone's done candle and flash before and if there was anything I need to be aware of

Thanks

 

[4wd]

On auto it might try to make it too white, use RAW and adjust to the yellowish effect you want.
Keep the exposure way down too.

 

[alexkidd]

Use a grey card/white card to measure your white balance, alternatively use a cto filter on your flash to balance the flash light to the same as the ambient to negate any major differences

 

[will69]

Practice getting the WB right before hand with candles in a dark room.

 

[Jayst84]

You may want to gel your flash. Take a tripod as well, you may want to shoot two exposures one for the candles, one for flash, or a long exposure to add ambient after the flash, as the difference in luminance will be quite large.

 

[fred w]

Ahhh ok so if I warm up my 2 speed lights with gels then do one from tripod just be sure I've caught the ambient and blend them in ps , I obviously want good soft light from my flashes on the model but I'd like the candles to add tone to the image and help bring some mood.