Hi all,
I have recently got lights for some underwater videography. The camera I use is a GoPro Hero 11, and I have two 120 degree wide-beam lights from AliExpress. They're approximately 10,000 lumens each and 5500k. While I own red filters for my GoPro, due to the small sensor and poor low-light performance, I prefer to leave it unfiltered and colour correct in post production.
However, I am considering obtaining blue filters for my two video lights, so that they match the ambient light in the background. I.e. instead of having a foreground that is illuminated full spectrum by my lights and a background that is blue ambient, the entire image is ambient blue meaning colour correction is applied to the entire image/video.
I would likely get some relatively cheap blue filter sheets to glue over my lights.
Is this recommended and what are peoples experience using a blue light (with or without a red filter - my plan is to go without).
I have recently got lights for some underwater videography. The camera I use is a GoPro Hero 11, and I have two 120 degree wide-beam lights from AliExpress. They're approximately 10,000 lumens each and 5500k. While I own red filters for my GoPro, due to the small sensor and poor low-light performance, I prefer to leave it unfiltered and colour correct in post production.
However, I am considering obtaining blue filters for my two video lights, so that they match the ambient light in the background. I.e. instead of having a foreground that is illuminated full spectrum by my lights and a background that is blue ambient, the entire image is ambient blue meaning colour correction is applied to the entire image/video.
I would likely get some relatively cheap blue filter sheets to glue over my lights.
Is this recommended and what are peoples experience using a blue light (with or without a red filter - my plan is to go without).