Continuous Lighting question?

[megapickle1]

My experience with CFL lights is that they (mine) have a strong green/blue colour cast and I have to use Lee filter foil in front of the lamps (247-full magenta) to eliminate it 90 %. I´ll try to use flash for colour shots.

George

[Jim Andrada]

LEDs are popular with the video crowd and a lot of folks say a minus green filter is needed when using them.. I think some brands of small camera top LED lighting supply such a filter with them.

Check out the coollights site also dvinfo.net forum

http://www.coollights.biz/index.php

[stradibarrius]

Is it more efficient to place filers on the lights on on the lens?

[Bruce Watson]

Is it more efficient to place filers on the lights on on the lens?

Gels the lights.

That way you can see what you're doing, and meter what's actually hitting your subject. And the filter doesn't need to be as high quality (optically perfect) if you filter the light before it hits the subject. Plus, as lights age they may need some small adjustment in filtering -- two lights in a pair may drift apart. If you are using multiple types of lights (say tungsten and fluorescent) they'll need very different filtering to match each other; you can't possibly deal with that at your lens. I could go on, but you get the idea.

[stradibarrius]

That makes perfect sense...thanks Bruce.