Nelson Posted October 19, 2006 Share Posted October 19, 2006 Hello, I'm extremely new to this DP stuff and needed a little advice on lighting. I'm shooting a kitchen scene using 200T 16mm film. There's a big window letting in daylight and an overhead fixture of fluorescent tubes (Cool White). I've decided to use an 85 Filter to balance the window light to Tungesten. The fluourescent tubes are not rated at Tungsten, so how do I balance it without buying special tungsten tubes? Do I use a magenta gel or can I use full CTB? Please help. Thanks Nelson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Frank Barrera Posted October 19, 2006 Premium Member Share Posted October 19, 2006 well the tricky thing here is that you don't really know the color temp or the green/magenta shift of those tubes. if you could get your hands on a color temperature meter all questions would be answered. If it turns out that the tube is closer to daylight (cool white) and you use full ORANGE (CTO) on the bulb you might as well turn it off because you will not get much light out of it. are you considering all of this because you will actually see the tube in a shot? there is also the strobing effect that may or may not occur... standard flos can be a nightmare. can you just turn the thing off and forget about it? F Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nelson Posted October 19, 2006 Author Share Posted October 19, 2006 well the tricky thing here is that you don't really know the color temp or the green/magenta shift of those tubes. if you could get your hands on a color temperature meter all questions would be answered. If it turns out that the tube is closer to daylight (cool white) and you use full ORANGE (CTO) on the bulb you might as well turn it off because you will not get much light out of it. are you considering all of this because you will actually see the tube in a shot? there is also the strobing effect that may or may not occur... standard flos can be a nightmare. can you just turn the thing off and forget about it? F Thank you very much for the help. I understand what you are saying. I don't have a color temp meter, but I believe it's a cool white. That would be rated at 4100K right? Anyway, I will probably just turn off the light. But if the daylight coming in from the window is not enough, what types of other light sources do you suggest I use? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ljoski johnsen Posted October 19, 2006 Share Posted October 19, 2006 (edited) Hi, Since the regular fluorescent has an interrupted spectrum, the color temp meter isn't very useful in this situation. A half or quarter minus green gel would get rid of the green spike somehow. But usually cool white fluorescent light is much cooler than tungsten so half or quarter CTO will bring down the kelvin temperature to tungsten level, or half/quarter CTB to match with the daylight. Then again, you loose quite a lot of light by all these filterations, so as Mr. Barrera suggested, your best bet is simply turning it off and augment with other type of lights if needed. You didn't really specified the scene so I have no idea what kind of light would be appropriate, but I would play with big bounce card, reflector, or bounced HMI that could match with the daylight. Ljoski J Edited October 19, 2006 by ljoski johnsen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nelson Posted October 19, 2006 Author Share Posted October 19, 2006 Hi, Since the regular fluorescent has an interrupted spectrum, the color temp meter isn't very useful in this situation. A half or quarter minus green gel would get rid of the green spike somehow. But usually cool white fluorescent light is much cooler than tungsten so half or quarter CTO will bring down the kelvin temperature to tungsten level, or half/quarter CTB to match with the daylight. Then again, you loose quite a lot of light by all these filterations, so as Mr. Barrera suggested, your best bet is simply turning it off and augment with other type of lights if needed. Ljoski J Got it. Thanks. I'm definitely just going to lose the light. Nelson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member janusz sikora Posted October 19, 2006 Premium Member Share Posted October 19, 2006 Fluorescents are Pain... Never neutral color and a nonsense comparing how much time and money you have to spend to get little bit of funky light. Just switch them off... go daylight with 85 on the lens and CTB on Tungsten. jotes ITS ABOUT LIGHT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonathan Bowerbank Posted November 7, 2006 Share Posted November 7, 2006 If you're going to kill the fluorescents all together, but still want a tungsten light source that mimics the look of indoor lighting, you can always take a tungsten lamp and point it at a bounce board mounted above the actors or just the cieling if that's easier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alfredoparra Posted November 9, 2006 Share Posted November 9, 2006 im not an expert but I would use a special filter on the lens filter FLB for type B films or FLD for daylight films www.tiffen.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Durham Posted November 9, 2006 Share Posted November 9, 2006 If you're trying to go cheap, you might augment the daylight with a 5000K photoflood - put it in a chinese lantern to diffuse it and make sure that the placement doesn't cause any distracting or unbelievable shadows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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