d30 studio flash colour problems

[benno]

hi can someone help me please?
i've been using the nikon d1(my boss's) in the studio with electronic flash for a while, i've also been using my d30 but can't get good colour(yellow cast), tried all white balance settings can't find a way of adjusting colour on camera like d1 does???

[f8 and be there]

flash setting is a bit yellow, the best is daylight. custom white balance is what u want to do. read the manual. briefly shoot a grey card....then something like this....menu.custom white balce.set.menu off.then set the camera top to the bottem icon its the custom white balance. as i say the manual has a host of solutions for you....good luck

steve

[MarkG]

I too am having problems with WB and studio flash.

I tryed shooting a grey card as well as white, exposed by the flash lighting and using it as a custom WB.

in short...set up lights, fill viewfinder with either gray or white card, fire off a shot of the card, go into menu and select CWB, select image, (white or gray card), set CWB on top of camera. Insert model in same postion as cards were shot, using same lighting...

so far the reults so far have been awful.....Green

Ive tryed all the other white balance settings and the auto wb seems to produce the image with least color correction to do afterwards, it produces cool toned images, but Im finding all the other settings yield yellowish images that require quite a bit more PS work to correct.

Am I doing something wrong setting up CWB?

[soumya63]

I may sound silly, but is there any other ambient lights in your studio? Mixture of different color temp. lights confuses white balance system.

[f8 and be there]

small sub issue....filling the frame with the grey card......the camera only uses the circular spot around the central focus point.

[benno]

HI THE MODELING LIGHTS ARE THE ONLY LIGHT USED WHILE I'M SHOOTING (except for strobes)

[jzucker]

benno wrote:
HI THE MODELING LIGHTS ARE THE ONLY LIGHT USED WHILE I'M SHOOTING

First of all , you should use the tungsten setting if you're using the modeling lights, only...Secondly, I beg to differ that the daylight is the best setting to use for studio flash. I have both Photogenic and Alienbees flash units and they both work best with the flash WB setting. If you use other flash units YMMV.

Jaz

[benno]

hi i've found the problem was that i had a uv filter on for protection of the lens, and that was causing the yellow cast, so the colours looking pretty good now, thanks for your replies