Very often I have to photograph indoors with lots of yellow tungsten light, in years past my approach was to bring in additional strobes and base my exposure on that. For well lit tungsten environments I use the existing light and to open the shadows a bit, I have some gel material from Roscolux #3407 which converts a 6500K flash to a very warm 2900K that is a deep amber tone that is close to most tungsten lit environments.
I simply tape it to my on-camera strobe, it balances very well in most situations, just one word of caution: If you bounce it off a wall or ceiling the WB in the camera will change the color temperature and the end result will not look good.
For wedding receptions I still use multi-strobe set-ups, triggered by Pocket Wizards given that most wedding receptions are very "intimate" and yes, very dark.
I still have not devised an effective way to attach / detach the gels, for the time being, some gaffer's tape will have to do.
This is a good example of an action shot using existing light and opening the shadows a bit with a gelled Canon flash, balancing everything almost to perfection.
Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa chats with college scholarship recipients at last weeks' Telacu scholarship awards at the Century Plaza Hotel in Century City, CA
Canon 5d / 24-105 F4.0 IS / exposure: 1/50 F4.0 ISO 1000
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Ese Mario, mil gracias compadre. Que imprecionante trabajo, sin duda alguna. Deveas que buen tip. Mario tu trabajo es impecable y se que es devido a la atencion al detalle que tu le pones en todo tu trabajo. Tu si sabe, sin broma. Gracias por el tip y deja lo pongo a trabajar y te prometo que compartire los resultado.
Un abrazote Mario.
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