Compensating for 5400k lighting

[Kindredmachine]

1. We just got our new LED panel lights in which are actually 5400k color. To get closer to 5600k color temp I've heard I should slap on a 1/4 minus green gel... should that do the trick or would I be better off just filming with the native 5400k temp?

2. Also, What kind of gel should I use with these 5400k LED lights to get 3200k color for interior shooting?

Thanks everyone! Lighting is definately not my strong area.

 

[slondon]

1. We just got our new LED panel lights in which are actually 5400k color. To get closer to 5600k color temp I've heard I should slap on a 1/4 minus green gel... should that do the trick or would I be better off just filming with the native 5400k temp?

2. Also, What kind of gel should I use with these 5400k LED lights to get 3200k color for interior shooting?

Thanks everyone! Lighting is definately not my strong area.

Minus green is magenta in color and will knock down a green spike but not raise the color temperature of the LEDs.

Maybe there is something screwy about your LEDs that I don't know about, but if they produce a reasonably continuous spectrum of light at 5400K there isn't a gel made that will move that source to 5600K, and happily, you don't need one it is so close. The weakest strength color temperature blue gel is eighth and that will shift a 5400K source up to 6000K, probably noticeably blue. Some HMIs run there. http://www.leefiltersusa.com/lighting/products/mired/

There's no magic in 5600K it's an average for daylight affected by the time of day, the direction of the light, the clarity of the atmosphere, etc., etc. A difference of 200K in 5600K is a much smaller color shift than a difference of 200K at 3200K. If you can see it at all it will be a tiny warming and a lot of DPs prefer to warm up "daylight" sources a tiny bit anyway.

Test and see what you get. Shoot some scenes but also a color chart, different skin complexions and clean white and see how your LEDs mix with a known good source such as Kinoflo daylight tubes.

To go the other way use 3/4 color temperature orange gel.

 

[Kindredmachine]

Great, thank you for the advice!