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Equipment & Techniques => Medium Format / Film / Digital Backs – and Large Sensor Photography => Topic started by: JoeKitchen on November 11, 2014, 10:50:08 am

Title: Simulating the Color of Fire?
Post by: JoeKitchen on November 11, 2014, 10:50:08 am

I am looking for gels that I could wrap on bare bulb strobe heads that would simulate the color of a wood fire in a fireplace.  (I will also be wrapping diffusion around the head too.)  I would be using them to help reinforce a fire that is already lit but where the exposure is too fast to really allow for the light of the fire to effect the image.  

I bought the Lee gel Fire and will be fooling around with this, but I think it will be too red.  Any inputs?  

Also, most likely I would be using this with the overall room light balanced to between CTO and 1/2 CTO.  

Title: Re: Simulating the Color of Fire?
Post by: jerome_m on November 11, 2014, 05:26:58 pm

Fire is about 2000K. Stack 2 CTO gels.

http://www.leefilters.com/lighting/mired-shift-calculator.html (http://www.leefilters.com/lighting/mired-shift-calculator.html)