Speedlight in location with fluorescent lighting?

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At the weekend I will be taking photos at a venue which has strip fluorescent lighting and I plan to have a speedlight available for use, as required.
Is there anything settings-wise on the D3S that I should be alerted to under these conditions?
I have tested the site without flash and adjusting WB to fluorescent 'after the event' give perfectly good results ... but I am unsure of how the speedlight will affect this.
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Took this from the link below, also read about mix of white balances in a flash tutorial some time ago.


http://www.scantips.com/lights/flashbasics5.html

" to combine orange incandescent room light with daylight flash: We can put a CTO filter (Color Temperature Orange) on the flash head, to make its light orange too, same as incandescent. Then we can properly set Incandescent White Balance in the camera, and be good to go."

I think the same would apply to fluorescent lights. You would need a filter on the flash to match the ambient lighting WB.
 
Thanks for the link Amer ... it pointed me to the fact that a green 'fluorescent' gel is required ... and that I can find it in the pocket of my SB800 case! ... feel a little :$

:D
 
If you use auto white balance and an SB800 then a Nikon will set your whibal to flash. Which will generally make the preview look awful. Set it to fluoro for better results.

An SB900 would read the code on the gel you use and set whibal accordingly :)

BTW fluorescent light is horrid. Sometimes green just like the filter and sometimes not...
 
Yep, the only way to tell for sure is to use liveview which will give you an good idea what colour it is. Then set your WB accordingly and gell your speedlight.
 
The23rdman said:
Yep, the only way to tell for sure is to use liveview which will give you an good idea what colour it is. Then set your WB accordingly and gell your speedlight.
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Wouldn't always work. Colour can shift (sometimes a LOT) across the mains cycle.

Only sure way is B&W ;)
 
Another quiet visit to the venue seems in order then :thinking:
 
JonathanRyan said:
Wouldn't always work. Colour can shift (sometimes a LOT) across the mains cycle.

Only sure way is B&W ;)
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That's true enough. God, flourescent really is evil. :D
 
yeah, off the top of my head I would have thought a blue ( is it?) cap on the speedlite and then shoot in the right WB or in RAW

something else I want to try is should on fluorescent WB and then use a yellow filter to warm it up (fill flash)....something I read in a Scott Kilby book recently. really want to try this out!
 
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