Matching Light

[JackinthePan]

Hello,

I'm looking for some help on lighting my football team's squad photo. I had requested we take it on a match day where the lighting would be better but they have insisted on doing it tonight at training - where it will be dark and floodlit. Anyone got any tips on this? How to get a consistant colour if I use a flash? Do I need to filter my flash to match the floodlight? I would like to do this at the time as a learning experience rather than fix it later in Photoshop.

Any ideas?

Cheers.

[Rentham]

You'll need to gel your flash. It is a crapshoot guessing what sort of light fixtures the venue has. Tungsten, mercury vapor, fluorescent? A good gel filter pack will have enough to get you reasonably balanced to these. Your other option is to kill the ambient and use strobes as the sole source.