Lighting Interior Real Estate

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Chris Sgaraglino

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New to video, I come form the Photog side and primarily use Strobes.
Looking to get a few lights for interior real estate videos.These homes can be 1500 sqft to over 7500.

I have to Twin 300/600 Tungstens with softboxes/barndoors already and I don't know if these are going to be enough. I also have a two head (500w/500w) work light on a stand with typical halogen tubes.

I would like to try to use what I have with some additional basic modifications.

When I shoot photos with flash, I usually only add a 1/4 CTO on each and I am able to raise the ambient enough to keep the windows form blowing out.

I'm not happy wit this because I did not have time to adjust for the stupid shadows, but the client didn't care, and I was fighting the windows.

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But this is a typical shot I am being asked to get in video as well.

Thoughts?

Warm Regards,
Chris Sgaraglino
www.OutdoorStudios.net
 
doesnt look half bad; we use window tint of various percentages and widths to knock out the window lighting down to manageable levels. might want to look into it. check out some gel filters and experiment; im pretty colorblind, so i have a second opinion most the time, but we use tints and color gels to get things even and proper, and lighting we employ a fairly standard 3 directional diffused lighting pattern.
 
Try and get some HMI's for bouncing in the bigger rooms and you can always CTO them to tungsten... You lose a lot less light doing it this way.
And try and balance out the ext. light with ND gels on the windows... so that you don't have to fight between int. and ext. light...

Finchy
 
You can gel them to daylight, but you lose a lot of light output. A lot of times I'll only go to half blue to get a little more output at the expense of my color temperature. You can also get a roll of 85N.6 and gel the windows with that, as that'll convert the incoming daylight to tungsten. Only problem with that is that it's something you'll have to keep buying because your pieces will keep getting smaller and smaller.

Honestly, either a 1200 par, or a bunch of kino flos and some ND seem like they're in your best interest. Basically, something daylight balanced with a bit of punch would be nice. They do make some daylight balanced CFL's that could work for you as well, but you'd still need a lot of ND to make those work.

You can also get a 4x4 shiney board and bounce sunlight in through a diffusion frame. Definitely cheaper than a light, but you still need the sun...and if that part of the house is in shadow, you're sorta screwed.

The other thing you can do, while it's a bit more work...is just always black out the windows and have it be night time in all of your shots. Then you can light to your hearts content with tungsten and not have to deal with color temperature.

And finally, one more option is putting diffusion over all the windows, just let them blow out and open up all you can.

(All the lights on during the daytime is weird...isn't it?)
 
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