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You have to run a studio like that with HMIs. Running tungsten lighting with full blue gels will simply not give you the output required. And tungsten lighting without some colour temperature correction would look dreadful. I notice that many of the broadcasters have been pointing HMIs at the Palace of Westminster too.
Election Night 2010
Very difficult to do windowed studios at night.
You need to balance inside light with outside light - and the only way to do this is to light the outside and/or reduce the light levels inside. If you run incandescent lights in a studio at lower and lower light levels using dimmers they go redder and redder - though I don't know what lights are being used in that studio. If you run at normal light levels the windows turn into mirrors...
You need to balance inside light with outside light - and the only way to do this is to light the outside and/or reduce the light levels inside. If you run incandescent lights in a studio at lower and lower light levels using dimmers they go redder and redder - though I don't know what lights are being used in that studio. If you run at normal light levels the windows turn into mirrors...
You have to run a studio like that with HMIs. Running tungsten lighting with full blue gels will simply not give you the output required. And tungsten lighting without some colour temperature correction would look dreadful. I notice that many of the broadcasters have been pointing HMIs at the Palace of Westminster too.