White Balance and Studio Strobe's

[fotogenik]

ok,

I have a question regarding white balance and studio strobes.

I have two Alienbee B800's and am getting some odd color caste's in my shots. I am thinking I may be setting my white balance incorrectly.

Here is a link to the lights I am currently using....

it stats that the unit comes with a 5600 daylight balanced fflashtube.

With this in mind should i be shooting with my white balance set to flash or to daylight?

Cheers,

 

[Big Mike]

As far as I know...Flash and bright midday sunlight should both be around 5600k.

Do you have anything in the room/studio that could be reflecting a color onto your subject?

You could always take a test shot and set a custom WB...or shoot int RAW and correct it later.

 

[fotogenik]

As far as I know...Flash and bright midday sunlight should both be around 5600k.

Flash on my Nikon D50 seems to be coming into camera raw indicating it is around 6500, or I am reading it wrong.

 

[Big Mike]

I could be wrong...I don't know for sure.

 

[fotogenik]

I just finished searching through the owners manual for my camera to see if it listed what value's the different white balance settings use. COuld not find anything.