Re: Flourescent Lighting Woes

No,

"Poisoning" requires puting the same 4' (most common) lamps that are in the ceiling in 4' Kino Flo units; then all the lamps are the same and the white balance corrects for the green spike. I don't think you'll ever find a practical interior lit with the globes you put in a Diva!

As far as gelling hot lamps, I don't recommend this as the flourescents you're trying to match are discontinous light sources and cann't be easily matched. Best to "poison" your 4' Kinos and use them on the floor to light the faces and eyes with the same light that lights the ambience in the room. The only other adjustment is to control the "top" light from the flourescents directly above your subject by either turning them off, or flaging them from "spilling" onto the nose and forehead and overlighting these areas, destroying the modeling and portraiture you'd otherwise like!

This is sometimes a complex stratagy to get your head around, but it is the best, cheapest, easiest and most elegent solution there is; all others are expensive and time consuming (relamping the entire room) or simply don't work (gelling the practicals or the hot lights).