Making Tungsten look like daylight?

[Adam J McKay]

Hey guys,

I have a ton of home depot worklights that I currently use for production. I was wondering if there is anyway I can make them look like daylight in order to place them outside a window so they can act like the sun. I was thinking gels but will they melt? Those tungsten worklights get rediculously hot.

Any cheap alternatives?

For my feature in September I plan on picking up a nice solid lighting kit so I can look semi professional and not have to show up sporting the hardware lamps. I was thinking about Lowel or cool lights.

what do you guys think?

 

[Jack Daniel Stanley]

depending on the size of your window and number of them ... gel the window(s)

also, you just need to get the gel about 10" away from a 500w tungsten.

So you could use a coathanger and clothespins or something. Or make a snoot with black wrap or aluminum foil and place the gel on the end of that.

I used to by the work lights that had a little catcher's mask type grill on it and I clothespinned gel to that.

 

[HorseFilms]

I used to by the work lights that had a little catcher's mask type grill on it and I clothespinned gel to that.

Same here. It worked pretty well, for the price.

 

[Adam J McKay]

Any suggestions on a good source for gels?

 

[PDX_DVX]

www.filmtools.com, full CTB.
if you have light coming in through the windows, you're work lights may not compete with the existing daylight.