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Sam Bennett wrote:
For the sake of this couple, I hope you (or somebody) took some shots with a real camera, with their flash gelled down to match the ambient light. 
The couple are lit from in front by daylight, not flash.
There are a couple of reasons why I don't generally gel my flashes:
- if you are switching between daylight mixing, pure tungsten ambient, and other colours of ambient then you need to keep attaching and dismounting a range of gels
- tungsten ambient provides a nice warm glow a bit like evening sunlight and usually looks more cheerful than balanced white ambient which can look a bit clinical
- light sources, including tungsten ones, vary considerably in colour temperature: a hot tungsten will produce an off-putting bluish ambience, while disco lights and uplights will provide other variations
But it's a good trick if you need to balance the flash with tungsten.
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