Advice for additional lights

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stanw

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I currently have an Arri lighting kit with a 1000, a 650, a 300, and a 150. I want to do interviews and green screen work. What additional types of lights would you recommend I add? I am working with a relatively small amount of space for my shoots, around 15-20 ft from background to camera. Any type of light that would work better for the green screen work?

Thanks for any advice.
 
No, as long as you choose 3200K bulbs instead of 5600K when ordering. The 3200K's work well with tungsten and are really the best reason to choose 3200K.
 
I just traded my 5-light Arri kit in for two Kino's (4'-4bank, and Diva200), and I'm VERY happy with that decision. You can do some cool looks with Flo's, and they're an excellent way to get good even light onto a drop.
 
Kinos are great but I would recommend looking into the Chromamatte stuff. Its amazing how easy it is to work with.
http://www.reflecmedia.com/

Here is a link for cheaper fabric for it.
http://www.magicmatte.com/

We shot this at Kwan's studio the other day.
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I've had great success with simply adding full CTO gel to a daylight balanced Cool Lights flo. The light loss going from daylight to tungsten is only about 2/3 of a stop, and I usually have plenty of lumens to spare when lighting indoors. Get both tungsten and daylight bulbs for maximum flexibility, but if you only get one set of bulbs, my vote is daylight.

Cool Lights said:
No, as long as you choose 3200K bulbs instead of 5600K when ordering. The 3200K's work well with tungsten and are really the best reason to choose 3200K.
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I think it sort of depends if you're shooting with an adapter or not. If you are, shoot, I'd be scraping for every spare stop I could. Not to say that 5600k bulbs wouldn't be sweeeet.
 
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