What White Balance to use when using Tungsten light and natural light?
I was shooting flowers yesterday with my Nikon D200, and I was using natural window light, and using tungsten to fill in. The problem was that when I set the WB for Tungsten, the main light looked very blue, but the Tun.light was fine. And it went the opposite way too.
What WB should I use?
Normally, you don't want to mix light sources like that. Get some blue get to throw over your tungsten light to make it closer to daylight color.
If you can't do that, you could try to do a "split" white balance at about 4200. The tungsten will be a little orange, and the daylight will be a little blue. If done right, it might look kind of like a night shot.
Shoot in RAW, use a WhiBal or other reference card, and read the captions under these photos - especially the first 5 or 6:
The answer above would probably work, too, but it assumes that the tungsten light is some "standard" color temperature. That has not been my experience for critical color adjustments.
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