Balancing for tungsten lights

[alharding]

I've been trying to find the best way to properly use daylight film to shoot under tungsten lighting. I've shot using the 80B and A filters(didn't see much of a difference). I've also tried to correct in Photoshop. It works but I'm having some difficulty getting really white whites. I'm shooting Fuji Velvia 50 @8x10. Any suggestions?

Thanks!

Al

[vinny]

use any other film besides velvia.
gel the lights.

[Daniel Stone]

don't shoot RVP50 with Tungsten. Unless you like that burnt orange/yellowish look . Speaking from experience here

Vinny's from a cine background, and I'm a photo assistant/photographer here in LA, so gelling lights is standard affair for us .

Gel your/the lights, or filter the lens. Correct whites in post. Shoot provia, less contrast than RVP50, and you get another stop out of your film. And it'll be easier to correct, since the curves aren't so wacked out anyhow from the beginning.

-Dan

[Bruce Watson]

Gel your/the lights, or filter the lens.

Easiest maybe to gel the lights. What you're looking for is a CTB gel. This will, unfortunately, lower the amount of light you're getting from the lamp/gel combination. IIRC, a full CTB is worth something less than 2 stops. Maybe 1 2/3 stops? IDK.

[Frank Petronio]

Use color neg like you should anyway.

[Bob Salomon]

Do you mean common house hold tungsten lights or photographic tungsten lamps?

[alharding]

I mean common household tungsten lights.

[Leigh]

I mean common household tungsten lights.

If you want to do it right you need a good color temperature meter with a secondary green/magenta channel like a Gossen Color-Pro 3F.

Then you need a set of gels to implement the correction that it gives you.
You should measure and gel each light individually since they can vary considerably.

- Leigh

[Frank Petronio]

LOL at doing it right....

[Leigh]

Now, Frank...

Is your curmudgeon license current, or has it expired? I'll be you forgot to renew it.

- Leigh