Professional Interior Photography, 3rd Edition

7 INTERIORS WITH MIXED LIGHTING

The last chapter, on technique, dealt with an average interior illuminated predominantly by daylight, with supplementary fill-in flash. Any artificial room lights or lamps have been treated as either negligible or atmospheric. Interiors illuminated predominantly by artificial lighting are, however, likely to appear with an unacceptable colour cast on a film balanced for white daylight, if no filtration is used over the camera lens: tungsten lighting will produce an orange cast and fluorescent an unpleasant green one. Likewise, if tungsten-balanced film was used in an interior of predominantly tungsten lighting, any daylight or flash would produce a cold blue cast on the film. None of this applies to digital photography, ...