im planning of using tungsten practical lights for lighting the bedroom and 1k outside the window for mimicking the moon light ..If i white balance for the tungsten light,wont the camera make the light look less warmer by adding blue and the daylight balanced 1k more bluish ?.How do i make the bedroom lights look warmer just like we see in real life ? .Will the problem be solved if i white balance for the daylight balanced 1k and adding a blue gel to it (for the moon light effect) ,so that the tungsten lights look warmer ?
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White blance for bedroom scene
- Thread starter jassim313
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If you balance to tungsten (3200k) and use halogen pracs, they'll be a touch warmer whilst keeping your moonlight quite blue.
The issue with gelling is you lose light output. How much depends on the fixture you're gelling. I also tend to find that sometimes 2700 halogen pracs can be a touch warm when balanced to 5600k, depending in what I'm trying to achieve.
I tend to shoot around 4300-4500k to get both warm pracs and blue moonlight. Do some tests though, as you may find it's not quite as extreme as you want to go, or you may want to sit at 4300k so your prac lights aren't too warm, and still gel the moonlight to get it really blue.
The issue with gelling is you lose light output. How much depends on the fixture you're gelling. I also tend to find that sometimes 2700 halogen pracs can be a touch warm when balanced to 5600k, depending in what I'm trying to achieve.
I tend to shoot around 4300-4500k to get both warm pracs and blue moonlight. Do some tests though, as you may find it's not quite as extreme as you want to go, or you may want to sit at 4300k so your prac lights aren't too warm, and still gel the moonlight to get it really blue.
