C100: Lighting wide shot
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FrameFarmMedia
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This is such an open ended question. What is your budget or what do you have access to borrow? Can you describe your interview setups. Do your shoots involve daylight and windows or are they very controlled studio settings? Is portability important to you (ie do you fly with gear or work out of a trunk or are you studio based)?
Doug_EX
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To emulate a softbox light, just put a big diffusion panel (the bigger, the softer it will be) and just blast it with Fresnels or some open face lights. Depending on the situation you may need as much as 2000 watts of power.
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mraaron895
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Just buy a few candles and shoot on the a7s.
Hearnia
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Might be overkill. I've been lighting for the a7s with the lanterns of deep-sea anglerfish. I use little glowing shrimps for fill.
Eric Coughlin
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A few 18K HMIs with a few 100K Soft Suns should be strong enough.
traviswears
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My shoots
My shoots
Budget $1,000. Can borrow Fotodiox PRO LED 1000ASVL with barn doors. I do interviews and b-roll for short documentaries. I am OK doing single person shot but when I shot b-roll of four lawyers in their office I did not have enough light. (I bounced two soft boxes off ceiling; each soft box had one 300w CFL bulb; third soft box was aimed at the central figure in the group.) Setups may involve daylight and windows on bright days, but at night or Michigan winter dark days I shoot in controlled setting in interviewee's home or office. I drive to interviews, so work out of car trunk.
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My shoots
Budget $1,000. Can borrow Fotodiox PRO LED 1000ASVL with barn doors. I do interviews and b-roll for short documentaries. I am OK doing single person shot but when I shot b-roll of four lawyers in their office I did not have enough light. (I bounced two soft boxes off ceiling; each soft box had one 300w CFL bulb; third soft box was aimed at the central figure in the group.) Setups may involve daylight and windows on bright days, but at night or Michigan winter dark days I shoot in controlled setting in interviewee's home or office. I drive to interviews, so work out of car trunk.
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Doug_EX
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Bouncing a softbox off a ceiling will not be very efficient. Buy 2 open face lights (like Arrilite 750) and a big diffuser panel. With that, you will have the option of bouncing those lights off the ceiling, and with the panel (let say 6'x6') you'll have a big softbox like light for those wide shots.
indiawilds
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I carry the BBS Area 48 lights - being remote phosphor, it is very bright. You may try it. http://www.indiawilds.com/diary/bbs-area-48-light-for-filming/
You can also try out these genaray lights. Thease are like icelights but cheaper. http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1024667-REG/genaray_sp_lr_spectroled_lightrod.html
If these can be planted one each infront of each person?
You can also try out these genaray lights. Thease are like icelights but cheaper. http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1024667-REG/genaray_sp_lr_spectroled_lightrod.html
If these can be planted one each infront of each person?
Eric Coughlin
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I have three Lowel Tota 750 watt lights which I use with umbrellas or bounce off of ceilings to light medium and small rooms; typically one or two are enough to get the job done. They are quite bright and do the job pretty well, but are very difficult to gel to daylight, so I typically only use them for 3200k lighting.
The Arrilite 750 is not a bad light, but if you're looking for a lot of light on a budget that you can more easily gel to daylight, you'll get more bang for your buck with two to four Lowel DP 1K lights. Another advantage of the Lowel DP is you can buy a Dichroic filter with it for $112.00. The advantage of a Dichroic filter over a regular CTB gel is with a full CTB gel you will lose 1 2/3 stops whereas with the Dichroic filter you only lose .5 stops to get to 5600K. So if you got three Lowel DP lights with three Dichroic filters and six bulbs it would come to about $810, and in daylight you'd have a 2250 watt output. And then of course put some medium sized umbrellas or diffusion panels in front of them.
The Area 48's are awesome but far above the $1,000 budget. A couple 1x1 or smaller LEDs such as the Dracast LED500 might be a good way to go, which would be about a 1K tungsten equivalent in terms of output. My kit is pretty much all tungsten, but I plan to go LEDs, likely with a couple Area 48s, once I can fit them in the budget.
The Arrilite 750 is not a bad light, but if you're looking for a lot of light on a budget that you can more easily gel to daylight, you'll get more bang for your buck with two to four Lowel DP 1K lights. Another advantage of the Lowel DP is you can buy a Dichroic filter with it for $112.00. The advantage of a Dichroic filter over a regular CTB gel is with a full CTB gel you will lose 1 2/3 stops whereas with the Dichroic filter you only lose .5 stops to get to 5600K. So if you got three Lowel DP lights with three Dichroic filters and six bulbs it would come to about $810, and in daylight you'd have a 2250 watt output. And then of course put some medium sized umbrellas or diffusion panels in front of them.
The Area 48's are awesome but far above the $1,000 budget. A couple 1x1 or smaller LEDs such as the Dracast LED500 might be a good way to go, which would be about a 1K tungsten equivalent in terms of output. My kit is pretty much all tungsten, but I plan to go LEDs, likely with a couple Area 48s, once I can fit them in the budget.
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