Light Science and Magic, 3rd Edition

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Traveling Light

The primary challenge of location lighting is to make the photographic light work well with the existing light. For example, video and motion picture photographers have to cover their lights with blue gels to get a good color match if they use those lights to supplement daylight. We will discuss some other problems and solutions for unmatched light colors in this chapter.

Still photographers usually avoid the color match problem by using electronic strobes that produce light of nearly the same color as daylight. This, however, ...