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rrman posted:

Showing color temperature ignorance, the bulbs I am looking at come as either 3000* or 6000*K, so if I were to alternate bulbs would the blended light in effect hit somewhere around 4500-5000*K, or would there be noticeable yellowish and bluish spots on layout?  I know incandescents radiate other color temperatures around the designed one, while LED are monochromatic with no other radiated temperatures.

Although it may look good to your eye, unless it's a homogeneous color blend, your camera will not be able to reproduce accurate colors. Many modelers have used a combination of incandescent and fluorescent lights because they like the look. However, when doing photography you shouldn't mix color temperatures. If you set the white balance for one color temperature, the areas that are being lit by the other temperature will be off. If you put your white balance between the 2 then all colors will be off.

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