Re: HMI and Green screen

[Dennis Size] "I like adding a "hint" of CTO to my backlights all the time..."

I sort fell into doing something like that by accident myself. Probably about half the time I do tungsten lighting for interiors (usually smaller locations) and about half the time I do HMI. When daylight lighting I have a small 150w HMI that I built specifically for back/hair lighting (very lightweight so in can hang on a grip arm easily).

One day its ballast was acting up and the darn thing wouldn't strike. I threw up a 300w tungsten Pepper fresnel as a hairlight and was about to gel it for color when I noticed "Hey, that looks pretty good."

I normally wouldn't mix the tungsten and HMI, but in that case it was just enough to give a nice warmth to the backlight. I use that setup often, now.




T2

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