'Warming up' cold looking white LED's

[LimeChris]

We're starting to use LED's to replace parafin lanterns in some large willow and tissue lanterns in a local community event. But for all the advantages the old warm, rosy glow is being changed to that increasingly encountered hard, cold, unforgiving blue-white glare.

 

Too deep a tinted gel reduces the light to an unacceptable degree, but we'd like to approach/compliment the lanterns, any suggestions for gels to use?

 

Thanks

 

Chris

[rossmck]

LEDs are difficult to make look warm ... is there any scope to use some amber LEDs mixed with the "white" ones to bring the colour temp down a bit ?

[Just Some Bloke]

The colour correction range would suggest 205 or 206 and that wouldn't reduce the output too much, but if you want a "rosy glow" you could try 154. All of these have a transmission rate between 70 - 80%. Going any deeper shade than these will reduce the light output quite noticeably.

 

Hope that helps.

[Guest lightnix]

Could you not use warm white LEDs? Mixing those with some amber ones could work quite well.

[DonkiDonki]

It's a bit tricky, altering the colour of LED's with gel as the spectrum of light output from the led is very narrow. Gel which works well with tungsten for example will give very different results from an led source.

 

Your best bet is to find led's that are a warm white to begin with, if possible. The suggestion of adding an amber led would work too, though this obviously means having more fixtures. (I take it you have already purchased your white led fixtures?)

 

Failing that you could try something like lee 013 straw, but you may need a bit of trial and error with other gels. You could always ask your gel supplier for some sample pieces to try out.

[tom_the_LD]

Hi Chris and welcome to the forum.

 

Which gels have you tried in the lantern so far?

 

Have you tried any colour correction ones? What about 153 or 154?

 

 

 

Tom