Lighting Question for Feature
- Thread starter rory7788
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PaPa
Major Contributor
as long as you are aware of the temperature balance between the lights, you have the power to adjust in post.
example. You want to light a night scene with moonlight coming through the window, but you have no HMI. You shoot tungsten through the window with a nice 1K, and then make sure if you have any interior lights they are tungsten with full CTO. The result will be a very yellow/orange image in camera, unless white balanced to a tungsten source with a full CTO.
or in post you just bring the color temp towards the blue until it looks right to your eye. Your choice really. The most important thing is that you keep the ratio of temperatures accurate.
example. You want to light a night scene with moonlight coming through the window, but you have no HMI. You shoot tungsten through the window with a nice 1K, and then make sure if you have any interior lights they are tungsten with full CTO. The result will be a very yellow/orange image in camera, unless white balanced to a tungsten source with a full CTO.
or in post you just bring the color temp towards the blue until it looks right to your eye. Your choice really. The most important thing is that you keep the ratio of temperatures accurate.
Andrew Brinkhaus
Veteran
And even Papa is adding gels in his advice. 
Do it like the pro's do...Use gels. Save post for the color timing. It makes everyone's life easier when you get the image as final as possible on set.
Do it like the pro's do...Use gels. Save post for the color timing. It makes everyone's life easier when you get the image as final as possible on set.
PaPa
Major Contributor
exactly.
If you are competing against natural daylight, obviously you want to correct your lights to 5600 k. So tungsten with a full CTB. But if no daylight is present, and you want to create the blue look from another source, leave your tungsten lamp ungelled
and throw on a CTO on the lights you want to appear to be natural. Once you bring the color temperature/ white balance to 800 K, the tungsten will appear blue and your CTO'd lights will appear tungsten. This may create a bit more noise, however, but a definite solution.
Competing with the sun, you will need more light. 1K tungsten with a CTB gel will result in a 250w daylight fixture. Soon after you'll run the max on the circuits you are working on, not to mention crazy amounts of heat, and very little light.
If you are competing against natural daylight, obviously you want to correct your lights to 5600 k. So tungsten with a full CTB. But if no daylight is present, and you want to create the blue look from another source, leave your tungsten lamp ungelled
and throw on a CTO on the lights you want to appear to be natural. Once you bring the color temperature/ white balance to 800 K, the tungsten will appear blue and your CTO'd lights will appear tungsten. This may create a bit more noise, however, but a definite solution.
Competing with the sun, you will need more light. 1K tungsten with a CTB gel will result in a 250w daylight fixture. Soon after you'll run the max on the circuits you are working on, not to mention crazy amounts of heat, and very little light.