Lighting?

[Dman83]

Hey all, I'm working as cinematographer on a short film which happens to have about 70% of it's shots outdoors, on location. I've been given a budget of roughly $500 for lighting and since this is the first time I'll be using 'professional' lights(I've always used household bulbs), I have no idea as to the resources available to me on this budget. I'm also unfamiliar with the problems associated with outdoor lighting. Any help would be much appreciated.

[The_Case]

Hey, good luck.

What you don't need is load of little tips and stuff.

You need to get a basic grounding in lighting. Then it's all simple, and you can make own choices of how you want to set up.

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[shirt]

This might be silly, but...

Do you have a light meter?

[Dman83]

Thanks for the tip, Case. :-) > I don't have a light meter, but I wasn't entirely sure I would need one since I'm filming on DV(which I should have mentioned.)

[machead]

do you know anthing about colour temperature, basically if your mixing daylight and tungsten lights unless you use HMI lights or correct the your tungsten lights to daylight your lights will warm up the shot.
Also shooting outdoors on a sunny day requires an exposure of f11@125 so you will require powerful lights (5k's minimum+generator) I don't think $500 is enough
I would make up some silver reflectors and bounce sunshine back into your subjects cheap but alot more effective considering your budget

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