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Originally Posted by ThisIsMyUserName
What you mainly have to look for is the color temperature of the bulbs. For my light box, I use some cheap daylight florescent bulbs with a color temperature of 5,500K, or "the sun at noon". Your flash is probably 5,000K and to my eyes, there's not really a difference when you white balance.
The bulbs you bought were probably lower, around 3,000-4,000K. Lower mean yellow/orange, higher is bluer.
If you use a regular bulb, I'd put it in a dome with a piece of tracing paper or some other diffuser over it so it's not so harsh. The other thing you could try is putting a gel over the flash (if it came with any) to make that light closer to whatever you have around. Probably easier to go for the daylight bulbs though.
Edit: Here ya go! A little pricey, but much brighter than what I have and rated at 5,000K |
That is a similar to the bulbs i'm considering, thanks for the advice, now if only i could work out how to keep my kids still long enough to take a pic.