Light is the most crucial element of photography and the way you use it will decide your results. Since light means everything for a photograph, its strength, and color can have a huge effect on your photographs. Fluorescent light is considered to be the best choice for giving a natural look to your subject, as its color temperature matches with that of the daylight. Here are some useful tips that will help you to use your fluorescent light kit judiciously so that you get the best results.

Always set your camera's white balance manually. You can also choose the predefined fluorescent white balance setting in order to simplify this process. Even if you use the best quality fluorescent light kit supplies, manual settings will help you to create a neutral color cast. Most digital cameras have this option of adjusting white balance manually as well as automatically. If you choose the automatic mode, you may not be able to get rid of green and blue color cast, which is a common issue with fluorescent light photography.
Using your Light Kit gives you some extra green and less red color in your pictures. To deal with this, you can use a red filter on the lens of the camera. To compensate for the filter, let more light enter your camera sensor by opening the lens wider than you normal levels.
Professional photographers always choose to shoot in raw without adjusting the settings. They however, have to spend a lot of time during the post-production process for correcting the color casts. Many photo editing software such as Photoshop have the Raw editing features that makes it easier to correct the color cast appropriately. The best part of this process is that you will have more control over your final results.
If you are using a flash along with your fluorescent light kit supplies, you will have to use a green filter over your flash. When you use a flash to fill the shadows of your subject's face, the color of this face and body will not match with each other. This is because; the face will have flash light that is neutral, whereas the body is illuminated by fluorescent light that is greenish. To balance this, you need to use green fluorescent balanced filters over your flash to convert it into a fluorescent light source.

For shooting indoors, you need to have a balanced light so that there are no color tones that need to be addressed during the post-production process.

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