The box said daylight

Because I'm cheap and lazy, I try to come up with alternative, $2 solutions to $500 problems commonly experienced in photography. Oddly enough, they don't usually work.

For example, there often just isn't enough natural light to create the effect that I want. If I use my on-camera flash, I end up with a completely different effect, a flat and harsh snapshot instead of a photo with subtle lighting and depth. If I turn on an artificial light, it affects the colour in the picture (yellow with incandescent, green with fluorescent). The accepted solution would be to use photography-specific lighting, such as a separate flash and/or freestanding lights and reflectors, but that would cost money and sounds very awkward.

So I was shopping in Superstore the other day, and I came across these incandescent bulbs with a blue coating. The box claimed that the colour of light they gave off was in the daylight range. Ah hah, I said. I can put these bulbs in a lamp to give myself spot or supplemental fill lighting, and everything will be good. I can take pictures of my cats at night to my heart's content.

Well, I'm here to tell you that even though the naked eye is fooled, film is not. The pictures came out still noticeably yellow, if less so than before. But I'm an optimist. I'm thinking about trying out an aquarium grow light next.