Re: [Leica] Yellow Cast on Flash "shots"

["David Medley" <dmedley@whidbey.net>]

Roscoe makes a small gel sample pack that you can pick up at most lighting
stores for free. The samples are approximately 1" x  3" . I cut a piece of
1/8 or 1/4 CTO that is about 1/3 the size of my strobe head and tape it on
the face. This warms things up just a bit. That and just a 1/3 or so less
strobe power and with a little practice you can make it look like natural
light ............. but it is in all the right places.

Those of you who own a Noctilux and wear leather underwear can ignore the
above.
 
Cheers,
David Medley
Whidbey Is.   WA
USA
dmedley@whidbey.net

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> From: Harrison McClary <hmcclary@earthlink.net>
> To: LUG <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Yellow Cast on Flash "shots"
> Date: Friday, January 16, 1998 5:33 AM
> 
> Carl Socolow wrote
> 
> >Finally, what's wrong with a little warmth in a scene?
> 
> My question exactly.  I frequently light things with the main light 
> unfiltered daylight then put a full CTO (converts daylight to tungsten) 
> on the background light to get that nice warm inviting feeling in my 
> shots.  This is shot on chrome, but the color applies to neg work just as

> well.
> 
> If you must get the color neutral and are shooting color neg do as both 
> Carl and Eric said and get a full CTO (wratten 85) and put it on the 
> strobe then let the lab get the color back to neutral.  I would recommend

> getting either Roscoe or CMC gels as these are far more durable than 
> Wrattens and much cheaper also.  CMC has a great site detailing all of 
> their filters and what they do at:
> 
> http://www.cinemills.com/filterindex.html
> 
> Of course if you don't mind losing all ambient, Teds suggestion about 
> jumping the shutter speed to 250 and using higher apertures is the 
> easiest, simplest, & cheapest solution, as long as you keep within the 
> limits of your flashes power.
> 
> Hope this helps.
>   
> 
> Harrison McClary
> http://people.delphi.com/hmphoto