DVX100a Set Up Advice Evening Interior

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Hi all,

I'm after some advice setting up a DVX100a for a interior shot.

The scene is evening in a living room. The shot is of two people sitting on a sofa (which is tartan green) and behind the sofa is a white curtain. There is one lamp back light highlighting the people and one key light (800w with diffusion). There is also the use of another 800w with diffusion if needed. The room is a creamy, white.

I'm looking for the right setting to use to give it a dingy but warm feel. At the moment it looks very grey and dull.

Any great setting people have used for interiors evening or set ups people can advise with I'd be grateful.

Cheers

Graham

Sorry forgot to add that the sofa is set right at the back of the room, which means there isn't much depth to the backlight and the redhead key keeps over exposing the white of the curtains.
 
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Shoot flat, just be sure to white balance. Any color treatment can be added in post.

If you want to warm it up just a little, warm balance. To warm balance, put a sheet of 1/8 or 1/4 CTB in front of the lens when you white balance.
 
C2V said:
Shoot flat, just be sure to white balance. Any color treatment can be added in post.

If you want to warm it up just a little, warm balance. To warm balance, put a sheet of 1/8 or 1/4 CTB in front of the lens when you white balance.
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The question I have, is why not use a slighly blueish 'white' to balance against, to allow the camera to give the warmer cast 'in camera' rather than using a filter on the lens?

I guess I could see using a filter on a specific light, to get a mixed color situation, but if the resulting image is 'filtered', what's the difference, in this case, between on lens filter, vs. what can be done in the camera with 'balance'... (balance may not be the right word for this type of application...)
 
thats what Alex meant. you white balance against the 1/4 ctb (blue) to give a warmer colour in camera.

j1clark@ucsd.edu said:
The question I have, is why not use a slighly blueish 'white' to balance against, to allow the camera to give the warmer cast 'in camera' rather than using a filter on the lens?

I guess I could see using a filter on a specific light, to get a mixed color situation, but if the resulting image is 'filtered', what's the difference, in this case, between on lens filter, vs. what can be done in the camera with 'balance'... (balance may not be the right word for this type of application...)
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im not quite understanding when u say filter. what exactly do u mean? the CTB? if thats what ur talking about, its a gel (not sure the material)...filter is like ND filter...polorizer ect which are glass.

U would put the ctb gel in front of the camera...then manually white balance to that like u would a white sheet of paper ect.

edit: oh i see what ur saying now...anyway i answered above...so yes you remove the gel after you balance.
he suggested 1/4 or 1/8 because they will give a slight warming unlike a full CTB or 1/2 which warms it up quite a bit.

U can also decrease the colour temp in the camera to warm up the colour.
 
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j1clark@ucsd.edu said:
So, do you put the filter on, 'balance', then take the filter off for the shot?
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It's not an attached filter, it's lighting gel. I have a little Roscolux swatch book that lives in my camera bag. I pull out the appropriate CTB swatch, hold it in front of the lens while I white balance, then put the swatch book back in the bag when I'm done.

The camera sees a little more blue in the white and removes it, so when the gel is removed the picture has a slightly orange tint to it.

And there are also warm cards available from broadcast suppliers... white-balance cards that are slightly blue-ish. Likewise, there are cool cards that are slightly more orange-ish. (Or you can cool balance using a swatch of CTO gel.)
 
You use it like you would a white piece of paper to white balance. You put it in front of the camera, press the white balance button, and there you go.
 
C2V said:
It's not an attached filter, it's lighting gel. I have a little Roscolux swatch book that lives in my camera bag. I pull out the appropriate CTB swatch, hold it in front of the lens while I white balance, then put the swatch book back in the bag when I'm done.

The camera sees a little more blue in the white and removes it, so when the gel is removed the picture has a slightly orange tint to it.

And there are also warm cards available from broadcast suppliers... white-balance cards that are slightly blue-ish. Likewise, there are cool cards that are slightly more orange-ish. (Or you can cool balance using a swatch of CTO gel.)
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Thanks both of you for clarification... since my image making has predominantly been in still photography, and large format at that, there are 'gel' filters using a frame in front of the lens, which I used on rare occasions... they were much cheaper than the glass equivalent...
 
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