[Jeff Carpenter] “Many spotlights are sunlight balanced and will look very blue to the camera. If you can, you should switch to the “sunlight” setting on your camera since the spotlights don’ta look blue to the human eye so you should correct for them.”
We usually have good response from spotlight operators and head electrics when we ask they use correction on spotlights. We actually carry gels with us most of the time in case they don’t have any. Straw works very well.
If you correct for the spots then the other colors will suffer, whereas if they correct the spots themselves there is no noticable difference for the live audience and everyone should be happy.
Charlie