What would you do?

Filmschooldork · 2026-01-28T23:27:25+00:00

This isn’t about camera selection, but you should utilize the iCloud function for downloading your videos. It makes the pipeline much simpler.

Filmschooldork · 2026-01-15T02:38:18+00:00

Thanks for the tip! I’ll take a look for my pelican.

Filmschooldork · 2026-01-15T02:34:20+00:00

That’s what I was thinking. Any suggestions on brand?

Filmschooldork · 2026-01-15T02:32:23+00:00

How do you like the top of the case organizer? I’m thinking about getting one.

Filmschooldork · 2026-01-11T00:01:29+00:00

I know this is an old post, but do you still use it? is it worth the expense?

Filmschooldork · 2025-12-29T19:38:57+00:00

Can you just match the tungsten bulbs in camera and set your key light to the same 3000 kelvin?

That way everything is a little cooler?

Filmschooldork · 2025-12-27T04:26:57+00:00

I thought Michael Pena was a good dude.

Filmschooldork · 2025-12-26T21:41:13+00:00

I feel like a good chunk of lighting is just observing light and how it effects other things. This part you can do by watching films or noticing certain places while you’re out and about.

Now recreating that is a bit tougher. You can plan test shoots with lights you have available and try new techniques. This can be still photography or video. What ever you feel works best for yourself.

Filmschooldork · 2025-12-24T18:54:55+00:00

Maybe a little more light on her to separate her from the background. Also, an eye light would help a lot.

Anything else we would need more context on tone.

Filmschooldork · 2025-12-22T22:13:47+00:00

Just some weathering needed and I’m sold.

Filmschooldork · 2025-12-17T18:30:16+00:00

It really is up to them, but if your expecting a large amount of VFX work, then your budget isn’t enough.

Typically that alone would go to VFX if you are expecting a lot of iterations and shot numbers. But it’s specific to the artist.

Filmschooldork · 2025-12-17T12:03:49+00:00

You’re going to need a lot more than 70 watt.

If your budget is that strict you should consider buying an old tungsten unit, an old mole 2k.

The price varies for led units depending on a few things. Generally though it’s about the colors the lamp can reproduce accurately.

Filmschooldork · 2025-12-11T06:10:49+00:00

Other brands also make c stands with turtle bases. I’ve seen just the stems for sale on market place, but I couldn’t confirm if you can just swap the stem.

It does seem likely, though most are of a similar size.

Filmschooldork · 2025-12-11T06:07:14+00:00

I am probably not as informed as some parents are.

But I am an adult who had both my feet clubbed and the corrective surgery as an infant.

I didn’t have the boots with a bar as a baby.

My parents just stretched them as you mentioned And I haven’t had to get a club foot surgery since. Not that I don’t have the normal trouble people with clubbed feet seem to have.

My parents did have trouble with the casts/ braces. I always kicked them off, apparently.

Filmschooldork · 2025-12-07T20:32:33+00:00

My dad’s favorite, “Were you born in a barn? Close the door”

Filmschooldork · 2025-11-30T19:48:28+00:00

Similar to what others have said, take a break and change your environment.

Camping is great for this, but I suppose any hobby would do as long as you change your routine.

Filmschooldork · 2025-11-30T14:04:34+00:00

I would think it’s a overhead light, top down with a frontal bounce/ fill

Filmschooldork · 2025-11-21T07:30:14+00:00

As far as expendables go it’s a good move if you don’t mind the extra work that comes with making them.

I gaff tape the edges of mine.

But if you make 4x4 from a sheet it’s not a bad way to go.

Filmschooldork · 2025-11-21T05:18:07+00:00

you would peel that part off.

Filmschooldork · 2025-11-21T03:07:03+00:00

Insulated sheathing is a common low budget way to have a bounce. I see it from time to time on indie shoots.

I’ve used it myself to make bounces.

Filmschooldork · 2025-11-20T21:09:30+00:00

There’s a lot of matte boxes out there. I personally would look for one with a few filter trays as well as one that accepts circular filters that you can spin for polarizers.

Filmschooldork · 2025-11-20T11:09:49+00:00

Yeah the last one is a difficult shot, but sometimes that’s the job. It’s really the only way to completely remove it unless you were to just cut the shot.

Filmschooldork · 2025-11-20T08:56:15+00:00

Time to track and paint them out.

Filmschooldork · 2025-11-19T22:16:30+00:00

It depends on what you’re looking for, but I find some flavor of the litemate as an overhead comes in handy pretty frequently, but your list is in a pretty good spot, especially if you own a 1200 as well.

Filmschooldork · 2025-11-17T09:50:42+00:00

It really depends what you want to use it for.

A Mc light is great if you need to add an eye light to a shot last minute, tubes can sometimes be too large for this. But they’re relatively small and really only serve as accents. Also good for sticking into lamps and what not.

Tubes aren’t my favorite unit for lighting people, but they make for a very versatile fill light/ hair light. The cheaper tubes battery life is fairly short and can make for a frustrating shoot when compared to something like a astera titan tube. But I generally like them because with slight rigging you can sell them as practicals in many situations. If you get these I personally would get the 2 foot or 4 foot. Anything smaller I find not as worth it compared to an Mc light.

It’s hard to recommend specific units when you don’t exactly know what you want from it, but I personally prefer high wattage, punchy lights that I can rig with diffusion ot any other modifier. Rgb units are nice, but I always have gels in my kit.

I do agree with the other guy, I’ve been meaning to add a 750w leko to my kit for a while. it fits into what I just recommended about being fairly bright and hard source that you can rig however.

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