Help with temperature of light please

[Joan Breckwoldt]

Hello everyone,

I have been struggling to get good resource photos and I have come a long way, but . . . .

I recently posted my 'babysitter photos' and I was using a light that I thought was imitating naturaly daylight, which would be cool since there is blue sky which makes the daylight blue. I will post one below. After reading just about every single post on this forum about lighting a model, I used a flourescent spiral lightbulb, 75W. I understood this light was close to 5000K temperature. Chris Saper was very very helpful with this information, thank you Chris.

But from looking at my babysitter photos it looks like this gave me a warm light? The bottom of her body is illuminated by the natural light and it's a cool light. So I have half cool and half warm light on my model. Not my intention. I am trying to get a cool light everywhere.

So, I'm confused, I was expecting to get a nice cool light. I like the intensity of this light and I am happy with the shadows it gives me, etc. I feel like I have made a lot of progress with the help of this forum getting light on my model! But, wrong temperature. I just don't understand why this light is giving me such warm photos!

Any help here would be appreciated. Thank you,

Joan