Recommendations on Interview Lighting Kit (beginner)

If you find WB is too blue then you can turn it towards orange in scene settings. Only applicable for manual WB. You did WB on real white under the lighting right?
 
Use the daylight preset and you should be fine. Canon/Sony/ect. have spent millions of $$ developing those presets so it's ok to use them. If your skintones are still blue then there's something weird going on either with the camera or your lights.
 
what are some cheap alternatives to diffusion that I could get at a hardware store or something? i don't really have the time to wait for a BH shipment and here in AR not much is going on in the video production world

Patryk_Rebisz said:
You are going about it in a wrong way. LED sometimes have this high frequency phase that annoys people. What you need to do is diffuse the light by placing a large sheet of diffusion in front of the light, thus the LED light will hit the diffusion and your lighting surface will be defacto the diffusion sheet and as the sheet is much larger than the lighting fixture it will be less annoying.
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Are you sure about that? Where do you live in Arkansas?

If you're just using LED's you can use 1000H, it's like drafting paper. It's quite thick though and will cut your output dramatically. If you're just doing talking heads though, this might be okay.
 
not looking to rent... just wanting to run in Hobby Lobby and grab something...
Little Rock has plenty of commercial production companies that shoot, but not much of a store front to walk in and buy other than Bedford
 
You're not looking for a production company though, you're looking for a rental house. (Also you're not looking to rent, I understand that.)

Any rental house will gladly sell you cut gels, even if they don't have a storefront. They're in the business of making money, and if that means slicing off a few feet of diffusion, I'm sure they'd have no problem with it.

Here's one place I found.

http://filmgearrentals.com/

I'd search for local rental houses and just call them up and see if they'll sell you a few feet of 250 or 251.
 
If they are saying the lights are too bright, then increase the brightness of the room behind the lights to reduce the contrast between the lights and the room from their point of view.
 
jrod81 said:
not looking to rent... just wanting to run in Hobby Lobby and grab something...
Little Rock has plenty of commercial production companies that shoot, but not much of a store front to walk in and buy other than Bedford
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You might stop in Stageworks on Main St in LR. They carry a fair amount of gels/diffusion.
If you like I would be more than happy to help you tame your lighting issues.

All the Best!

Dave
 
Well, if you are diffusing LED lights then parchment or tracing paper as stated earlier works fine. Otherwise bounce it of white board or something.
 
Michael thanks for the info. What color temperatue bulbs do you have in your biax flos? Also, do you still use a 650w fresnel? I do two person interviews (myself and the interviewee) and I'm replacing some low end EOS lighting CFL sofbox lighting which didn't provide enough light. Thanks in advance for your help.
 
jrod81 said:
what are some cheap alternatives to diffusion that I could get at a hardware store or something? i don't really have the time to wait for a BH shipment and here in AR not much is going on in the video production world
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Also you talked about issues with color temperature with the 5600 lighting. Are you mixing with other lights (tungsten or office flours)? That would give you mixed lighting/color. If you want consistent color you need to pick one color temp and balance others to that, then white balance to the chosen color temp.
 
robfilms said:
terry-

does "regular old" wax paper really work as diffusion on tungsten lights?

thanks in advance.

be well.

rob
smalltalk productions
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What you want is parchment paper. Should be fine for tungsten as the paper is made to go in ovens. I'd still keep an eye on it though.
 
robfilms said:
terry-

does "regular old" wax paper really work as diffusion on tungsten lights?

thanks in advance.

be well.

rob
smalltalk productions
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Clothespin it to a fresnel's barn doors (as opposed to right in front of the lens) and you're good. Certainly not my first choice, but it works.
 
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