I watched on utube that you can use gels to change lights from a daylight to indoor Kelvin rating by putting a orange, or blue gel on the lights. Which gel type and number (Rosco or Lee) are the best for this? I have 500 Watt lighting fixtures.
What color temperature are you running on your 500 W fixtures? Typically I use a Lee 203 or 202 (CT Blue) to convert 3200 K lights to daylight. I would use the CT oranges to convert daylight to tungsten. Look on the Lee website. They have a good section on their colors there.
Here are the most pertinent color filters from the "big 4" US color manufacturers:
If the stage lighting is solely for the benefit of the live audience, with no cameras involved, you can use any color filter you want that achieves the desired effect.
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I watched on utube that you can use gels to change lights from a daylight to indoor Kelvin rating by putting a orange, or blue gel on the lights. Which gel type and number (Rosco or Lee) are the best for this? I have 500 Watt lighting fixtures.
I watched on utube that you can use gels to change lights from a daylight to indoor Kelvin rating by putting a orange, or blue gel on the lights. Which gel type and number (Rosco or Lee) are the best for this?
Every lamp used in stage and studio fixtures has a lamp code that will allow you to find the specifications of the lamp. These are standardized by ANSI for almost all the lamps used in film/video/tv/theatre. There are still some that don't have standard ANSI codes.
Also, many fixtures only have a specific lamp or small number of lamps that are rated for use in the fixture, so if you can tell us either what fixture you are using or what the lamp is, we can be a lot more specific about what color correction you need to achieve the look you want.