LightSource Photography Podcast E010 - Lighting Filters with Joel Svendsen

LightSource is our lighting and photography podcast that introduces photographers to studio lighting and digital photography techniques and equipment.

Hosts:
Bill Crawford, publisher of StudioLighting.net (Flickr)
Ed Hidden, exclusive IStockPhoto.com photographer and inspector (Flickr)

Special Guest:
Special Guest Joel Svendsen, Photo Film and Television Marketing Manager for Rosco Laboratories

Joel is the Photo Film and Television Marketing Manager for Rosco Laboratories. Rosco is a major manufacturer of color filters and photographic lighting materials.

Roscolux Swatch Book, Small Sampler of Almost Every Filter.	Rosco Color Effects Kit, Ten 10" x 12" Assorted Color Filters.	Rosco Cinegel Sampler Kit, Fifteen 10" x 12" Assorted Color & Diffusion Filters.
Rosco Color Correction Kit, Sixteen 10" x 12" Light Correction Filters.	Rosco Diffusion Kit, Thirteen 10" x 12" Assorted Density Diffusion Materials.

View Rosco products at: http://www.rosco.com/us/
Filter Tech Notes section of Rosco.com
FilterFacts filter use manual

LightSource Episode 10 (Interview Series) [45:20 minutes]
Download the show: LightSource010.mp3 [20.9 Mb]

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Ed and Bill discuss:

Special Guest Joel Svendsen, Photo Film and Television Marketing Manager for Rosco Laboratories discusses:
The history of Rosco Laboratories
Photographic or lens filter versus Lighting Filters
Selecting Lighting Filters
The meaning of Kelvin
Color balancing with CTB and CTO filters
Plus Green filters, Minus Green filters for flourescent light balancing
Digital cameras, white balance and light filters
How to attach light filters
How filters reduce light
How to get a free swatch book of filters
Joel recommends a beginner filter kit
Using filters for creative lighting
CalColor and Roscolux lighting filters

Using filters to get better green chroma key when using a green screen
How Polarizing light filters work
Rosco Diffusion material
The lighting "swiss army knife" - Cinefoil
Rosco Lens cleaning products
Rosco reflective material
Rosco large diffusion panels and "shower curtains"
Building your own cheap softbox

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