Prom Photos

TonysTouch · Oct 30, 2012

Here is a couple of photos from the prom I shot a few months ago. C+C is always welcomed.

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Hurme · Oct 31, 2012

All I can offer is that the images seem to be underexposed by half a stop or so and that there seems to be some strange green light coming from the right. Did you just go with available light or were these lit using flashes?

gsgary · Oct 31, 2012

You have lit the background better than the subject

TonysTouch · Oct 31, 2012

These were lit using continuous light. It was difficult keeping the students in the right spot. I never noticed the green light. I was using daylight balanced light. All of the bulbs were the same.

Hurme · Nov 1, 2012

Tungsten and especially fluorescent lights often change color during their life span.

I'm guessing you had fluorescent somewhere to the right because of the green cast. They also flicker at certain frequency and can cause different color casts and brightness if you shoot over 1/100th of a second. Sometimes using something like 1/50th of a second is recommended to get uniform lighting between shots.

But if you used tungsten based lights and there were no fluorescent lights on set then it's hard to say. Perhaps a wall to the right was green and reflected light?

Get some flashes, they will make your life a lot easier when it comes to lighting things up.

TonysTouch · Nov 1, 2012

The flicker makes sense. And I can't afford another speed light, or two. BTW, I shot with a primary, fill and hair light. All three fluorescent bulbs that had all been on two shoots previously.