Hello I've got a question regarding a mixed lighting situation for a 16mm film I'm DPing this weekend. I don't know if I'm thinking correctly here, or I might just be confusing myself more.
Basically we are shooting a scene in a kitchen, and there is a wall of windows on one side which the director wants open. I'm using Fuji 240T so I need to correct for the daylight, to bring it to the temperature of our tungsten lights. He does not want to spend the money to gel the windows with CTO, which I have done in the past, so I'm going to use an 85 on the camera to compensate. The potential problem however is that we want a cold morning feel to the scene, so I had planned to use blue gels on our Tungsten lights. But if I use the 85, will this take away the blue effect on the lights? I have this feeling that it would, but I'm not sure. My other idea was to not use the 85 and allow the daylight to go blue anyways, and we could adjust it on the print. This idea makes me uneasy though. Do you have any advice?
Thanks ahead of time.
Sincerely,
Aaron Meister
Basically we are shooting a scene in a kitchen, and there is a wall of windows on one side which the director wants open. I'm using Fuji 240T so I need to correct for the daylight, to bring it to the temperature of our tungsten lights. He does not want to spend the money to gel the windows with CTO, which I have done in the past, so I'm going to use an 85 on the camera to compensate. The potential problem however is that we want a cold morning feel to the scene, so I had planned to use blue gels on our Tungsten lights. But if I use the 85, will this take away the blue effect on the lights? I have this feeling that it would, but I'm not sure. My other idea was to not use the 85 and allow the daylight to go blue anyways, and we could adjust it on the print. This idea makes me uneasy though. Do you have any advice?
Thanks ahead of time.
Sincerely,
Aaron Meister