Anyone shot video of a photo shoot?

Ben Sliker

Ben Sliker

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Hey People,

I hopefully have a ongoing gig coming up soon for doing video of a model shoot. Subject is a model and an exotic car, sometimes at the same time, sometimes not.

In hopes of getting the video to match up as well as possible to the pictures (in terms of lighting), I'm looking for suggestions on a lighting setup that will be semi-permanent and allow me to roam with the HVX for the video part.

the photographer will have a multi-flash system going.

Locations are varied (indoors and outdoors).

Let me know what you think or if you have any more questions.

I figured 4-1k arris with softboxes would be a good place to start. (hopefully hanging from the ceiling).
 
I'd think you would coordinate with the photo.. if you are lighting the same subjects, why compete with each other? Your continuous lights will interfere with his flashes, and vice versa....
 
I did this once. We just set up a 1k with a softbox and let the photographer do his own lighting on top of that. It worked out pretty well.
 
I am a photographer and do video and have done video of photoshoots.

Depending upon how the photographers shoots that will determine what you can setup and not affect his lights. If he is using strobes at a high f-stop you won't have a problem but if he is working in natural light then you might run into issues.

Ask the photographer if he can use his modeling lights on his strobe if indoors because that will light the subject some and you can just follow that scheme to have them match.

Here is an example of a video I did of a photoshoot

http://www.antarhanif.com/Debbie/Debbie2.mov
 
arges03 said:
I'd think you would coordinate with the photo.. if you are lighting the same subjects, why compete with each other? Your continuous lights will interfere with his flashes, and vice versa....
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Oh, we definitely are coordinating the whole thing, without saying more than i'm supposed to, the video is the focus, the pictures are just like a bonus on the side. It's not like I'm just a BTS camera man, I'm setting up specific shots (dollies, etc.) trying not to get equipment in the shots and then filling in the gaps with the "model interacting with the photographer" shots.

Here's shots we did from sunday. I'd like to have enough lighting to eliminate some of the background by stopping down. (We shot in a boxing gym.)

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HorseFilms said:
I did this once. We just set up a 1k with a softbox and let the photographer do his own lighting on top of that. It worked out pretty well.
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I think to be ability to stop down to where i want to be, I think I'd need a little more. I was thinking two 1ks w/softboxes for upfront, a third as a backlight and some smaller lights to get accents for closer shots. Any suggestions?

SilverWolf said:
I am a photographer and do video and have done video of photoshoots.

Depending upon how the photographers shoots that will determine what you can setup and not affect his lights. If he is using strobes at a high f-stop you won't have a problem but if he is working in natural light then you might run into issues.

Ask the photographer if he can use his modeling lights on his strobe if indoors because that will light the subject some and you can just follow that scheme to have them match.

Here is an example of a video I did of a photoshoot

http://www.antarhanif.com/Debbie/Debbie2.mov
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Thanks for the example! Like I said before, we don't want it to have a BTS look (so no photographer or lightstands prominent), I'm thinking that he was using strobes because he didn't care much about the one continuous light i was moving around. And the powers that be are requesting A LOT of light to make the video look really slick. Thanks for the info!
 
What can you mount on the ceiling? If you have enough light, you could consider using a screen to make the background darker, too.
 
If I were going to do something like this, I'd just let the photographer barrow my my 5 fixture mole kit and let them light with those, we'd both have enough light, and it wouldn't be strobing either.

Just my 2 cents.
 
Based on your notes it sounds like you'll need a lot more than a couple of 1k's.

I've done stuff like this in a studio that had a 20x40 softbox built into the truss, powered by 100 1000W quartz lights.

I'm not suggesting you need all that, just wanted to give you a bit of perspective.
 
If you are adding lights, then you are probably adding unpleasant reflections in the shot. Eg: the very curvy automobile (no pun) - glass and panels. Soft boxes might not hurt the shot, but bare bulbs could upset photographers work.

If using hotlights, hence creating more heat than the stills model is use to, it may cause excess persperation. Which in this case, might not be a bad thing (some pun) :)
 
Thanks for the puns! lol.

Charles, we'd definitely like a little light dancing off the curves of the car, What we don't want is those big circular flares we have now (caused by the overhead lights in the gym). I think Silverwolf was really on to something with the photographer using a high f-stop with his strobes, then the light i use won't really even matter. And I can turn off the practicals!

It was also pretty chilly in that gym, I don't think the model would have minded at all if we turned a couple more lights on. But I get what you are saying, when it gets hotter, that may be an issue, but not mine, that's for hair and makeup to deal with!
 
Usually for vehicles, the bigger the soft light, the better. You use a 1x1 ft light to effectively product-light a watch... scale that up to a car. :)

Sometimes bare flos look okay as specular reflections if they're organized. Of course, if you have lines and lines of flos, you probably could diffuse them without much work anyway.

What's the photog thinking about in terms of color temp?
 
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