Color chart
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The color chart series below was shot with my Canon 1Ds Mark II with a single incandescent light bulb in a white reflector. This was a standard grocery store 75 watt 'soft light' bulb. In camera white balance was set to incandescent.
The color chart/exposure slate we used features integral wheels used to indicate both shutter speed and aperture. I standardized at 1/60th of a second and used a Nikonos V, 15mm lens, and an SB-104 strobe at 1/4 power manual for a light source.
The Macbeth color chart.
The Kodak Color Separation Guide (top) and Gray Scale (bottom). These two printed cards come together in large 14" (Q-14) and small 8" (Q-13) sizes.
This first test shot is of Jennie holding a Macbeth color chart. This was a critical frame to have for the post production part of this project.
color cards (color charts)
a reference sheet or folder exhibiting a range of colors from which selection of ink, paper, films or other commodities may be selected in the desired hue.
COLOR CHART-Target for test photography composed of pigmented areas having colors of high saturation, often accompanied by gray scales, and useful in both color photography and in black-and-white reproduction of colored objects.
Skin Tone - slightly warm Color chart - good color, slightly underexposed
Image Stabilization ...
Kodak changes film types every year or so in the interest of some clueless scientist's quest for less grain and more accurate duplication of bogus color charts and continual failed attempts to imitate Velvia.
The best way to learn about color harmony is visually. Art stores carry books that have color charts and wheels, value scales and other aids that are helpful in understanding color and its properties.
In a perfect world you would also own a Kodak gray Scale or color chart (~$100) and place that in the corner of the shot and correct to that... Use nylon drapes to diffuse those lamps and any other diffusers you can think of...
That is an esthetic judgement, and only you can decide if you like the final results. Run a test on each bach of film, as emultion characteristics differ, and then decide. MacBeth color chart is the standard for calibrating colors in the industry.
 See also: Color, Camera, Light, Image, Balance
  
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