orange filters like street's lights

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Garinion

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Hello

I want to select a rosco filter that match with these street's lamps for my Quartz lights (3200K) can you suggest me a type?

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So, you want to step down from 3200 to 2800 or something like that. Use a half or full CTO in front of the lights.
 
Roscolux #3409: Roscosun 1/4 CTO quarter (I would use this one, but try both)

Roscolux #3408: Roscosun 1/2 CTO half
 
You could also throw a little 1/4 plus green in there for good measure.

At Cinegear, Rosco had some samples of new sodium and mercury colored gels on display. I couldn't find anything on the website though.
 
But nobody wants it to look that way, and people remember sodium vapor as being a dirty orange.

Use a Full CTO on your tungstens to get very close, and then throw in 1/8th + Green (1/4 is too much) if you want it a little dirty.
 
I'd use a straw gel and a 1/2 CTO. That's what Deakins used for his exteriors in No Country for Old Men and it looks real good.
 
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