Outdoor night time shoot, action sports

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Sam Davies

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Planning a shoot, looking to have:

6x 2k fresnels
2x 3k strobes
dimmer
console
large smoke machine

plus stands, gels, a few kilometres of leads (not quite, but lots), and a far-too-expensive generator.

Shooting mountain biking, it'll be done on the side of a mountain with almost no flat ground anywhere, over 2 nights.


Just wondering if anyone can poke any large holes or anything, or if anyone has any ideas on specific placements of the lights etc. for cool shots.


Cheers
 
Are "leads" Australian for "stingers"? Bring some sandbags and applecrates to help balance your lights on uneven terrain.

I get my favorite shots of bikers with super-long shutters and smart movement of the cam, but I'd never shoot that way unless I had plenty of time to get what I needed.

If you're using strobes, are you going for an "inspired by still photography" look?

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I have no idea what stingers are - by leads I mean power leads/cables/cords.

Definitely will have a large supply of sand bags - hadn't thought of crates though, cheers for that.

The strobes are really only to use in the opening shots, which will be the riders walking towards the camera through thick fog with a coloured backlight, and some powerful music - or something like that anyway.

I may play around with a strobe lit slow-motion on one of the biggest jumps we'll be shooting - have 'norma'l lighting for the run-in and landing/exit, but cut those while they're in the air and use fast strobes. Might be cool, or it might kill the riders, we'll see.
 
lol yeah, that's the same thing. :) Good to know in case I ever shoot down under.

I was thinking you might kill the riders with strobes, too. Stay away from strobe lighting if you're using the HDV codec or a CMOS cam.

See if you can get them started at sunset or dusk. You might get some amazing exposures of the sky if there's still a little light left.

How many watts do you have on that generator?
 
haha - same for me if I ever go to the North!

Shooting DVCProHD on a HVX200, she'll be right :love4:

Good tip on the sunset/dusk things, that's a really good point. It'd be really cool to have the section slowly change from dusk to full-darkness as they make their way down the track too. Thanks!

I'm not too sure of the wattage of the gennie, but I know it's a 3 phase with 35 Amps per phase, so it's pretty beefy!
 
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