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ultraviolet 'black' lights at reception shoot?

sgoodrum
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Mar 14, 2005, 3:53 PM

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I just shot a reception in Columbus, OH and the band used 4 strong ultraviolet, black lights. I have never encountered so many problems white balancing, auto exposure and black levels using my PD-170s....
Anyone else run into this problem?
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glimmer
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Mar 15, 2005, 9:28 PM

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Re: [sgoodrum] ultraviolet 'black' lights at reception shoot? [In reply to]	Can't Post

Not at a wedding, but a few clubs that I've filmed at had all of the crazy lights, fog machines and everything else and white balancing was practically impossible. The best thing I did was film manually and change the gain, exposure, etc when necessary. What really helped was having a 4" external monitor on the camera as it created a much better image over the little screen. 170's were used.

sgoodrum
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Mar 15, 2005, 10:01 PM

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Re: [glimmer] ultraviolet 'black' lights at reception shoot? [In reply to]	Can't Post

Thanks... I think what's probably happening with the uv 'black' lights is, even though we can barely see it, the camera sees it as very bright light and stops down the iris and drops black levels. I agree that manual settings are the only work around but boy what I pain. And white shirts washed in a detergent like Tide really bloom bright blue. Other light clothes not washed in those detergents remain quite dark. Anyway, thanks for the input. Next time I'll go manual and maybe try a stronger uv filter on my lenses.
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