Thanks everyone for your useful advice about lights! I'll be filming this Friday and will use your tips how to make the environment/video lighter.
Loreta --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Amirault" <ramira...@...> wrote: > > ----- 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 >
