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Re: [OM] Need advice on shooting under fluorescents

Subject: Re: [OM] Need advice on shooting under fluorescents
From: Andrew Dacey <frugal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 17:27:10 -0300
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From: "Gary M. Teller" <gmteller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 4:56 PM
Subject: [OM] Need advice on shooting under fluorescents


> Hi all,
>
> I've been asked to shoot the interior of a small (12'x 17') gift shop that
> is lit by 2x2 fluorescent fixtures (I'm guessing standard cool white
bulbs)
> flush mounted with the ceiling tiles.  The shop is located within a
> building so there is no outside light.  The walls are lined with glass
> shelves stocked with lots of colorful glass, ceramic, metal and cello
> wrapped items that all reflect light.  One set of shelves is mounted in
> front of large plate glass.  In the center of the shop are glass cubes
> holding the same type of merchandise.  I'd like to capture the beauty of
> the merchandise with minimal reflection from all that glass shelving.

If you're concerned about reflections, you might want to look into using a
polarizer as well in order to control the ammount of reflection off the
glass. Of course you'd have to stack that with the FL-D filter because of
the flourescents so you might want to look out for vignetting.

Andrew "frugal" Dacey
frugal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.tildefrugal.net/


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