K40 lighting results...sort of...

[chas_ucla]

Thanks to everyone who gave advice on my previous post re color temps...

We got back the results from Dwayne's...
Shooting with a 650W 3400k lamp as key and one 250W 3200 fill gave the film a slight greenish glow. This was in a small bathroom with the blinds on the small window down so I can't imagine much if any daylight seeping in. The walls are painted this hideous off-white, cream color and the actor was wearing a grey t-shirt so I wonder if that helped to factor in the look. Wasn't too bad but then again we were using Bolex 160s which have real crappy aperature control.

Anyway, we're going to re-shoot with two 500W 3400 lights...if that's not enough then we'll add the 650W movie light. It seemed like the close-ups didn't have enough fill light...

[Actor]

When you say "greenish" the first thing that comes to my mind is fluorescent light. Were there any fluorescent lights on in the bathroom? Like maybe next to the medicine cabinet? If so you need an FL-B filter on your lens (which will cost you 1 stop). Or, if you can find them, you could use FL-B gels on the lights. Otherwise turn off the fluorescents or rig some incandescents.

[Matt Pacini]

I suspect fluorescent lights are the culprit also.
They look pretty normal to the eye, but I'm telling you, they have this vicious green spike that just SCREAMS green when shooting film.
Really terrible looking.

Matt Pacini

[chas_ucla]

I know what you are talking about but this is an old house we live in and the landlord has regular 60W lights in the ceiling, no fluorescent light fixtures anywhere to be found...no , it wasn't that greenish...so you don't think it was the 3400k and 3200 light mix?