----- Original Message ----- From: "loretabirkus" > 1. I was asked to film a short 1-2 min clip for one small company. The > president does workshops for his clients and I'd like to get some shots of > that. However, I checked out the room where he's doing the workshops and > it's pretty dark, ceiling florescent lighting, dark sand color walls and > kind or cramped. I figured out the angle from which I will film, but I'm > afraid there won't be enough lighting. I do have lights that I use for > studio type picture taking (2 of them) and I will bring those, but in > order to get use of them, they'd have to be upclose to people I guess. > However, then the lamps would be seen in the picture. > How do you usually resolve the issue of lighting in small, having no > windows rooms? I was thinking about increasing the exposure as well if I > see that there's still not enough lighting with my both lamps that I have. > But any other ideas would be helpful.
Assuming that the ceiling is some sort of white ... shut OFF the florescent lights and use your lights but aim them up at the ceiling. They can be off to the side, out of the camera shot. Hoping that your lights are reasonably powered. Try it and see. If your light are not powerful enough than you'll have to aim them directly at the subjects .. but in either case shut off the fluorescents as mixing different colored lights is not a good idea. Richard Amirault N1JDU http://bostonfandom.org
