In this video we’ll see how lamps you find at home, gels and diffusion paper can spice up your films and videos in an affordable way!
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Ikea and Clas Ohlson sells inexpensive bulbs and lamps
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Colored lighting will make your shots more interesting. As a cinematographer, just make sure that the light is credible, meaning that it actually fits the atmosphere of the scene. In our film The Camera Hack we used a red light to enhance the sci-fi touch of the film and introduce the personality of our hacker. See the behind the scenes here:
Here is the behind the scenes of our Aftermovie where we used an RGB light:
Our quick overview of light equipment:
You have colored gels that makes your light look spicy. You have the orange (CTO) and blue (CTB) gels to adjust the warmth of the light (Kelvin), and you have correction gels made to correct poor lamps producing unnatural light. You see, LED lamps comes in different qualities. One of the measurements is CRI. The higher the CRI value, the more natural an accurate light the lamp produces. And with a correction gel, you can tweek the light from the poor lamp to make it look more natural and match the good lamps.
And then we have diffusion paper. It’s simply meant to spread the light and thereby make the light soft. You can use a baking paper/waxed paper for the same effect. Just be careful when using a very hot bulb next to it.
The bulbs are even more important to create good looking images. Nowadays, LED bulbs has taken over the market. LED’s are great as they are affordable, they last for a long time and they don’t get that hot. However, their CRI value might be low, which again will make the light less natural. Aputure is one of the companies that manufacture LED lamps with high CRI values for an affordable price. See one of the videos we made about an Aputure lamp here:
LED’s comes in different color temperatures, called Kelvin. You can get bulbs that are really cold, around 6000Kelvin, looking like daylight, or LED’s that are warm, f.ex 2200Kelvin, that look more orange.
The most common bulb is Incandescent Light Bulbs. Their CRI values are unbeatable, but they get really warm and don’t last as long as LEDs. You also got fluorescent bulbs which have many of the same features as LEDs.
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