Fluorescent lights

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jax_rox

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I'm shooting in a few weeks in a library with fluorescent lights. Unfortunately, I can't bring in my par cans. I do have one reflector, will the fluros be enough light? The library will be empty so if I need to I might be able to bring in my par cans but the library is reluctant enough to let us and a camera in unsupervised let alone lights and stuff.

Will the reflector do much with fluoros? Will they be enough lighting?
It seems to be lit well enough, but I haven't tested my camera in there, and someone once told me that fluoros are a pian in the ass to film with...
 
they arent horrible - it will probably look "ok" without any lights but reflectors will help out as would a small scoop light with a flourescent bulb for filling in faces. Just get one with a clip and clip it to something - no stand or anything.
 
Overhead lighting is just part of what contibutes to that "sickly look" that many of these industrial quality fluorescent lights give (along with their "sickly" looking color temperature of the common and dreaded 4200K). The reflector or the suggested CFL (of the same color temperature) will help enormously in taking out that overhead look and making it look more professional. White balancing to all this will be the final part to make it look its best.
 
Instead of just the normal spiral CFL I started using the CFL pars and find they give a little better diffusion than just a bare CFL. And they look sturdier so maybe I wont break them :) And try to match that 4200k or there abouts. I would err on the side of warmer if you have to. I like my faces a little warm anyways.
 
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