Mixing Halogen and Flourecent Lighting

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I have just bought two interfit coolite 5's (with softboxes). I am using them for portraits and for light tent.

Because I only have the two lights I cant get a clean white background from my white muslin. What would be the likely effect if I light my background with halogen or tungston or even my speedlight. I have read somwhere that I should light the background 2 stops more than my main light to produce a white BG (although grey doesn't look too bad).

EOS 5 D Mk ii and sigma 105 EX
 
Forget about using halogen or tungsten lights to brighten the background. The colour temperature is way out compared to flourescent lights, you would need to gel them to get the colour anywhere near, this would cut the power down to a totally unusable level and you'd probably melt the gels too.

Your hotshoe flash would be a much better bet, as the colour temperature won't be too far out. The background needs to be slightly more exposed than the subject, say a half stop or so. The advice to put 2 stops more light on the background is just plain wrong.
 
Thanks Garry,
What about a strobe?
I am looking to add a litle more flexability to my lighting (home hobby use).
Perhaps the Cool lites were a bad choice but they fitted my budget at the time.

Cheers
 
Apache_sim said:
Thanks Garry,
What about a strobe?
I am looking to add a litle more flexability to my lighting (home hobby use).
Perhaps the Cool lites were a bad choice but they fitted my budget at the time.

Cheers
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Any kind of flash will do, as long as it's off camera. Obviously a studio flash would be better (more power, more controllable) but a hotshoe flash will do the job.
 
What sort of power would be most useful for a studio flash.
On a budget what would you recomend?
 
200Ws minimum (about x4 the power of a hotshoe flash)
The Lencarta SmartFlash 200 is the best quality buy at a budget price
 
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