Strobe Colour Temperature

Looking through the posts there seems to be a preference towards a warmer strobe for wide-angle shooting. I use a pair of Inon strobes and would like a slightly warmer colour temperature (to keep those lovely blue backgrounds). Has anyone tried putting a warm-up filter on their strobe? I could imagine cutting a piece of orange plastic to fit over the front in place of the diffueser. Has anyone tried this and if so can you recommend a good source of raw material to make one? Presumably it would only need to be very slightly orange or the results might be horrible. I remember ages ago a buddy of mine used to swear by putting some pink tissue paper over the head of his housed flash...

Apologies if this has already been discussed- please redirect me!

I tried cutting some reject bits of Magic filter and fitting them on a pair of Inons. I found that they were far too strong. You actually need surprisingly weak filters on the guns. Pale orange, red or pink would be worth trying.

You may also find it useful to have a look at my article on "getting the blues" in the latest issue of UWP Magazine - which deals with some of the benefits of changing strobe colour temperature.

Alex

Take a look at www.leefilters.com who produce a huge array of filters including film industry warm up gels which are cheap enough to cut up and play with.

I had good luck w/ 5CC Magenta for wa shooting 3-6 feet away.

Looking through the posts there seems to be a preference towards a warmer strobe for wide-angle shooting. I use a pair of Inon strobes and would like a slightly warmer colour temperature (to keep those lovely blue backgrounds).

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The strobes do not have an effect on your "blues".

I know it has become something of lore on this forum that warmer strobes result in better blues, but the reality is that the only reason the blues change is because the photographer, in post-processing, warms the image.

The bottom line is if you like daylight temp on your subject then you will have no reason to warm the image and therefor the blues will be as captured. On the other hand if you do not like daylight temp on your subject, and instead want something with more red then it would be easier to switch to strobes that satisfy your on-subject color temp preference.

But if you are switching strobes for no more reason than people here say warm strobes result in better blues, I'd suggest it would be prudent to first decide what temp you like on your subject. Because that will tell you whether or not warming the image in post-processing will be neccesary, and by extension have any effect on your ambient portions of the image.

I like daylight temp and therefore don't, as a matter of course, warm the image or alter the blue water as captured.

how agout color temperatur if you have 2 strobes that have diferent

color temp . as for example 5000K & 4300 K

Is the a way to control the temperatur if you want to make it warmer or colder like

make a 4300 stobe to 5000 k strobe or

make a 5000 K strobe to a 4300 K strobe

or is just to put the camera in manual Kelvin in ca 4700 K?

BTW have a difuser something to do with color temp ro it just difuss?

Motionsync

You can get MIRED shift filters (try Lee filters or do a Google search). These will shift colour temperature in specified amounts (described in terms of Kelvin shit, + or -) and could be used to balance different flashes but will reduce their output marginally. However, as different flashes have different light output characteristics (in terms of the reflector used, the flash tube shape and the flash burn time) simply adjusting their colour temperature will not alter their inherent differences so you may still find an apparent imbalance in the lighting using significantly different designs of flash unit. Depending on how critical the use of the image this may or may not matter.