AboutJohn Wilson Expertise Over 25 years specializing exclusively in professional wedding photography. I can answer most questions relating directly to wedding photography concerning the business, film, digital, traditional & digital labs, marketing, effects, pricing & packaging, shooting outdoors and in-studio with multiple flash, color management and creating magazine style wedding albums. I can't answer questions regarding other fields of photography. I am a full-time self-employed wedding/portrait photographer. I can comprehensively answer most questions regarding portrait and wedding photography. I've operated a custom color and black & white photo lab processing films and photographic prints. I now shoot digital exclusively and process in Photoshop CS3.
Experience I have over 25 years experience working as a portrait/wedding photographer.
Education/Credentials School of hard knocks. Self-study. Purchasing all books I can find about portrait and wedding photography and attending photography seminars over the years.
Expert: John Wilson Date: 3/7/2008 Subject: photography
Question Hi, my name is Becky, I am interested in setting up a portrait studio in my home. My mother-in-law has a white lightning light, that she used for many years, but it hooked up to her camera that uses film, can this light be transfered to a digital camera?
Answer Hi Becky,
Yes you can use the same lighting with a prosumer digital camera. For more detail specifications about the particular white lightning flash you are referring to, check out http://www.white-lightning.com/retired.html
Older flash however may not provide consistent light temperature which can mean a little extra tweaking white balance in post-production. I prefer to shoot hi-jpegs in the studio where I have consistent lighting conditions and this enables me to work faster in post-production tweaking the jpegs in photoshop. Shooting RAW if your flash in the studio is not consistent can help you to still produce professional quality images. Just have to have a great raw processing program. I recommend http://www.bibblelabs.com if you are going to be shooting RAW for any reason.
Hope this helps. Thanks for your photography questions.
