Shooting Under Fluorescent Lighting - Nikon D300 Complete Manual

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Iguasu Falls, Argentina. I've pulled the little bit of color out of the

original IR image to make it strictly a black and white image, but

otherwise haven't done any other processing. Note how the blues

(sky, river) have gone dark, while the greens (foliage) have gone

Shooting Under Fluorescent Lighting

Fluorescent lighting makes it particularly difficult to

photograph well. Not only is the method used to create the

light different than most other light sources, but also there is

considerable variance between fluorescent tube

manufacturers. Fortunately, Nikon did something about this

last by adding support for different types of bulbs in the

Fluorescent white balance setting.

Heat produces the light emitted by the sun, incandescent

bulbs, halogen bulbs, and most other light sources. Heat-

generated light has the property of emitting a continuous

spectrum of colors, though the balance of these colors is

different for various sources (which is one reason why the

white balance setting for sunlight is different than for

incandescent light, for example). Another property of most

light emitters is that their color balance is relatively stable

(e.g. two brief measurements of color temperature taken a

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