Question to pro photographers! Lightning temperature.
 

I have a question to pro photogs. When i am shooting with a continuos lightning like ARRI and Kino FLO without a flash i am using a custom white balance and put the lightning temperature to 3200K or 2900K and what what about manual white balance are you using shooting with a studio flashes like Hensel, Bowens, ProFoto, Elinchrome etc, what color temperature are you using with studio flashes?

Depends on the set.

I used a Broncolor/Sinar set for a few years and set it to 5500K

I use alien bees the color temp is 5600 but you can use filters to match temperature.

Depends on the flashes. The flash manufacturer should supply this info. If not you can either buy a color temperature meter, or adjust in post-production.

Do you have any links to the good color temperature meters?

They are not cheap, dont have a specific link but I am sure B&H has some listed: http://www.bhphotovideo.com

the easy way is to not worry about the color temp, but just get the lighting constant during the set.

this also means tweaking f stop so your exposures are constant (WB can change slightly if you are over or under exposed)

then shoot everything in RAW and batch convert.

daylight, daylight flows (kino's etc), strobes are in the area of 56K. considered blue

tungsten and continuous light that is NOT daylight balanced is in the area of 32K. is perceived as yellow

regular florescent light is 41K more of less and perceived as green.

the higher the K the more to blue and eventually ultraviolet, eventualy to sound and then to quantum physics. the lower the vibration goes towards reds and eventually to solid matter.

best to always use a custom white balance. probably be best to leave the party and babes alone and study photography. photographers generally spend all their time studdying photography in my experience. seriously that's such a newbie question I have to wonder if you're even a photographer. and you supposedly shoot for clients? that's totally fucked up dude.

if you're using daylight balanced kino flo's shooting at 32K that's even more fucked up. you had better get your shit together.

-bmb

You're using lightning to light up the room? :eek7

it's a pro shooter trick, kids, don't try this at home.

I am using filters with Kino Flo. that why i put the temperature to 3200. Looks good, but i can't pot those pics because i have a contract with a client those pics belong to him.

Yeah B&H is a realy good place for shopping

If you use sunlight, so long as you adjust for shadows, you can't go wrong, although you sometimes have to compensate for sun flares...

http://www.leonardo-energy.org/drupa...n2.preview.jpg

Also, avoid staring at the sun for long periods of time... :2 cents:

ADG

Most shooters nowadays prefer the daylight balanced bulbs in their Kinos. I know I do! As a matter of fact for filming hdv which requires a LOT of light to look good, I supplement my two four-foot four-bank Kino lights with some Lowell tungsten softbox lights with CTB (color temperature blue) filters over the Lowells to make them match the approx. 5600K daylight color temperature of the Kinos.

Thanxx for the info