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AHH, THE VALLEY OF THE GELS, as Greg Heisler used to call it. (Check out Greg’s work. He single-handedly changed magazine photography in terms of light and color.)

At night, the streets of New York are a raucous riot of light sources. In the days of slide film, you would just about sniff the air, like some sort of old trapper, to determine what kind of color correction you were about to use. Often that correction would be in the realm of a magenta filter over the lens, which would eliminate some of the greenish-yellow color that abounds from fluorescent, sodium vapor, mercury vapor, or any of the other of the toxic light ...

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