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beige_alertYet another reason to love digital photography:
It snowed today. Before shoveling, I got a few photographs. The light is from high-pressure sodium street lamps. I set a custom white balance using the snow as a white sample, and, look, the color is fairly natural. The snow is white, my red car is red. I’m used to losing two stops to a deep blue filter to shoot color slide film indoors under tungsten light, and you can just forget any other kind of artificial light other than the flash, and now I can get decent photos under fluorescent lights, or as this shows, even high pressure sodium.
It snowed today. Before shoveling, I got a few photographs. The light is from high-pressure sodium street lamps. I set a custom white balance using the snow as a white sample, and, look, the color is fairly natural. The snow is white, my red car is red. I’m used to losing two stops to a deep blue filter to shoot color slide film indoors under tungsten light, and you can just forget any other kind of artificial light other than the flash, and now I can get decent photos under fluorescent lights, or as this shows, even high pressure sodium.
