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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bob Blaylock" data-source="post: 827935" data-attributes="member: 16749">I recently replaced all the light bulbs in my house with bulbs having a 5000K color temperature.  I've always hated the dingy yellowish color of most indoor lighting, even when I am not taking pictures in it.  But when taking pictures, it distorts the colors in a manner that I do not seem to be able to adequately repair in postprocessing.  Buddy's eyes, in particular, are badly affected by dingy yellow lighting.  I previously could only ever get his eye color to show up correctly, if I could get natural daylight on him.  Under the dingy yellow lighting, his eye color always came out looking entirely wrong, and nothing I could do in postprocessing was ever able to get them to look right.  This picture was taken under our newer 5000K lighting, and I didn't do any color correction at all on this image.</blockquote>