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300 W camera light:
It is really only a fill for objects in the foreground. This way I can move and place the camera without always thinking about the shadows caused by the main light and the effect light. The main actor is always bright this way, without that ugly shadows around the nose... In some cases I replace the 300 W camera light with a 100 W battery light (reflector lamp from a projector with a 12 V lead battery).
This lighting is only for "normal", bright szenes. I?m using it for many years now, the results are really "hollywood-like". Of course, for special effects it must be modified.
Pedro
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Its actually 100W halogen bulbs that I was planning on using. I'm filming indoors in a small room so I figure 2 or 3 bulbs should be enough lighting if the lights are placed close enough to the actors.
As for my previous queston:
Where do you get higher wattage bulbs 300W and up? The highest I could find at harware stores were 120W Tungsten and 100W halogen.
Thanks,
Scott Ulrich
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there's probably a lighting specialty store somewhere in cincinnatti. in downtown tampa, we have a store named 'bulbs unlimited'. good place.
i don't know what pars are available in the wattages you need, but that's the sort of place i'd start.
i know there are higher wattage pars used in professional motion picture lighting. most commonly, par64's and par36's. these usually range anywhere from 500w to 1200w, 2800k to 5200k, and are available in varying beam widths from very narrow spot to extra wide flood. the most common is called a 'fay' light. 'fay' is the ansi code.
pars of this size are not good for lighting faces. you'd use them in place of hmi's for daylight fill or overall scene illumination as they have significant punch and can throw far distances over a wide area.
as you can imagine, they get very hot.
anyway, call up your local grip and lighting rental facility and ask them kindly where they get their bulbs. maybe their source will have a more appropriate wattage of par. or other variety of lamp.
i keep rambling about pars because the bulbs are cheap. however, you can use photofloods. photofloods are available in varying color temperatures and wattages as well. they're available at your local photographic supply store.
you may also want to look into a portable open-face lighting kit, such as the lowell kit. these bulbs, and the photofloods, will be more expensive, however.
-edward koehler
