Elena Valden

you are soooo right about time! As the first day showed, there is hardly any time and space even for a single redhead... thank you so much for advice, yes, I have done some recce, but the results on stills seem to be quite different from my first rushes colours are very different in different areas, and originally I wnated to keep the green, industrial look of the kitchen by not fighting fluorescents and balancing tungsten lamps with CYAN, but now I see that the heat lamp in some shots is taking over the fluorescents completely and the green look vanishes. so I guess a lot of work will have to be done in grading. Unless there is another solution?

thank you so much. Yesterday was the first shooting day, and I decided not to use many lights, as you suggested, and only had one redhead at hand to boost the light up a little bit. I went for CYAN 4330+15 (which I believe is close to 1/2CTB +1/2 Plus-Green) for the redhead, and it seems to be blending in with the rest of the lights in the kitchen more or less. Have watched the rushes today in the morning, and have noticed that, when adding light from a redhead, if I reflect the light through one of the many steely surfaces in the kitchen, the subject seems to be much more evenly lit compared to ths shots when the redhead hits it straight on. Another strange thing is that shots that seem slightly underexposed (still gradeable, I hope), the green is much-much less noticable, and I do not really know what to think of it. And what is even more surprising, one of the shots came out looking absolutely normal, as if tungsten balanced. There are so many factors involved that I do not even know what affected it most: a) it was in the area closer to the warm source B) there were lights I didn't measure at the recce (still looked exactly like others to the eye) c) I didn't use redhead with cyan on it So I am at a loss how to carry on shooting - all my recce T stills showed that the kitchen will come out green, but now I am doubting whether I am enhancing the green myself by using the CYAN on the redhead?

Hello everyone, Savoy maybe a nice hotel, but their kitchen is a nightmare to light for an inexperienced DP like me! We are shooting a documentary on 16mm, T500, and the location looks very tricky: fluorescents on the ceiling are all over the place with colour temperature ranging from 3600 to 6500K, there are windows and a huge lamp all along the kitchen under which they keep the food warm before it is served (2030K and looks incredibly orange). The main kitchen's readings are at 2.0/2.8 and that big lamp goes right into 11.5 To top it up, the gowns of chefs and plates are shining white Not very sure whether I can afford to lose a stop by using an FLB on Cooke lense, and how to match redheads and blonds for those conditions, and what to set the aperture on, and the food still needs to look gorgeous... I would be VERY grateful for a piece of advice (SOS! Help! :)