Chapter 10

Daylight Fluorescent

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Some photographers are deeply involved in a love affair with flash. Others are faithfully enamored with continuous light. The constant light sources are true what-you- see-is-what-you-get illumination. They make their suitors feel as if they are working with something akin to natural light. There’s something to be said for that comfort level.

Photographers once considered fluorescent to be the mutts of lighting. Between cool white and warm white and whatever other fluorescent color temperature there may be, it was an on-film disaster.

Today, daylight fluorescent is a new darling of the image-making industry.

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