I love the flexibility of the Mole Richardson fresnels…you can focus the light through the lens or swing the lens open and use the bare bulb to get a nice hard shadow to shoot through glass to simulate light coming through a window at night. You can dim them down to get really low levels of brightness, and dimming really low gives you that extra warmth and color balance to blend with the warmth of fire and flames. I personally really love the combination of tungsten inside blending with a little bit of cooler light coming from outside windows in shooting house situations, it just feels natural to me and so adding lights that are already balanced to tungsten is easier to work with.
