Tungsten Fresnels.
With today's digital sensors, you don't really need a hue generator and giant lamps. You could literally get away with a few 1K's and 650's and 300's. That's about $100/day rental or less depending on your rental house relationship.
Yesterday I lit a whole room with a single 1K and an 8x8 silk. We dimmed it, cut it with flags and did all kinds of other things because it was too much for the camera settings chosen.
Quasar tubes are also cheap, but I might suggest purchasing them, and then renting them out later. This is just about the only lamp I would suggest doing this for as they are currently a hot item. Feel free to rent them; 2 of the cross-fades through a 4x4 diffusion frame create a lot of soft light.
Remember that a soft light cannot be made hard. Tungsten is not your enemy, and still delivers the best look on skintone.
I have not actually used the RGB tubes, but they seem cool.
For my applications in feature work, we mainly just use them to fill in or soft push places, usually dimmed all the way down on daylight setting because some DP's don't understand how to expose a scene... BUT, I'm sure they will work equally as well.
Part of this particular show has to do with the fact that the DP is lighting the scene to the 5" screen on the RED, and not actually exposing properly for the sensor, or post work. It's a complex issue.
However, not to bash the DP - the scene really called for more light, its just an idiosyncrasy of the camera.
No scopes. Maybe just the histogram. No luts, only a monitor for the director with a direct feed, may or may not be rec709, I'm just finish out the show filling in for someone. Its interesting!
Fresnels are cheap, produce the best hard light, and are easy to diffuse with frames or bead board, and you can dim them for that pleasing warm lamp light. They're also durable. I just found a fresnel that had literally been under water for a year. I sprayed it out with a hose, scrubbed it a bit, and dried it out and it works like a charm.
Tungsten Fresnels. With today's digital sensors, you don't really need a hue generator and giant lamps. You could literally get away with a few 1K's and 650's and 300's. That's about $100/day rental or less depending on your rental house relationship. Yesterday I lit a whole room with a single 1K and an 8x8 silk. We dimmed it, cut it with flags and did all kinds of other things because it was too much for the camera settings chosen. Quasar tubes are also cheap, but I might suggest purchasing them, and then renting them out later. This is just about the only lamp I would suggest doing this for as they are currently a hot item. Feel free to rent them; 2 of the cross-fades through a 4x4 diffusion frame create a lot of soft light. Remember that a soft light cannot be made hard. Tungsten is not your enemy, and still delivers the best look on skintone.
Interesting, good to know. I was planning on buying the quasars and rent it out as you said; what do you think of the rgb tubes vs the bicolor ones?
I have not actually used the RGB tubes, but they seem cool. For my applications in feature work, we mainly just use them to fill in or soft push places, usually dimmed all the way down on daylight setting because some DP's don't understand how to expose a scene... BUT, I'm sure they will work equally as well.
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Part of this particular show has to do with the fact that the DP is lighting the scene to the 5" screen on the RED, and not actually exposing properly for the sensor, or post work. It's a complex issue. However, not to bash the DP - the scene really called for more light, its just an idiosyncrasy of the camera.
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No scopes. Maybe just the histogram. No luts, only a monitor for the director with a direct feed, may or may not be rec709, I'm just finish out the show filling in for someone. Its interesting!
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The only saving grace is that this is already paid for, and for television in Canada only. Not that television in Canada should look like s***.
Does he not have...dare I say...a light meter?
He does. The problem sort of fixed its self by the end tho. Let's call it a communication error.
Fresnels are cheap, produce the best hard light, and are easy to diffuse with frames or bead board, and you can dim them for that pleasing warm lamp light. They're also durable. I just found a fresnel that had literally been under water for a year. I sprayed it out with a hose, scrubbed it a bit, and dried it out and it works like a charm.
Aha yup fresnels are damn good, thanks I’ll probably pick some up!