Sears has a 2-500 watt halogen work light on tripod special- $28. You can see it on the Sears site, under tools-woork lights

did anyone find this post?

I bought my 3 way halogen lights from Home Depot for about 60.00. They work great.

Try these:

http://www.photoquack.de/tutorials/diylights.htm

http://www.dvinfo.net/articles/lighting/hdlightkit1.php


http://www.dvinfo.net/articles/lighting/graff2.php

John

Yikes - turning on 4 1k halogens at a wedding will certainly kill "the mood".
I bought a couple of Sima 30 watt battery "movie lights" at Best Buy for under $50 each. They use Sony batteries, so I bought a couple of extras of those.

They are tiny... my wife held one in her bare hand, easily, and I think a fishpole of some sort would add to their convenience. I shot a huge party with one on the camera, and one off, as a backlight. If you had other helpers you could add more.

They are so small that no one even noticed I was using extra lights, but my Sony PD-150 thought they were huge. Everything looked great. Actually, by using such low impact lighting, everything else in the party "came up", that is the wall sconces which were "sexy bar" dim added depth to the room, and it didn't look like we were shooting in the black hole of calcutta.

You could never have pulled this off in film. These new Digital cameras see in the dark ( well almost). I suggest buying two of these little babies and seeing if they deliver what you are looking for - most of the stores have generous return policies. Mount one on the camera, and instruct your assistant to backlight your subject. Rather than being afraid of seeing the light, encourage your assistant to get the light into the camera lens. The flare just adds to the excitement and immediacy of the event.

I would NEVER turn on a halogen light at a party. But that's me....
v.

Hello,

Good suggestion. I will be doing a few weddings this summer and thats something to look into. I am shooting a music video and thats what I wanted the halogens for, thanks for the help everyone. (if i could afford those nice Lowell tube kits like I had in college, I would easily get one... but I can think of alot more to spend $500 on for the business =P)

Brian

www.influx-media.com

Ok, concerning this former post I saw (hard to find back!), here's a copy-paste of it:

Subject: Florescent lighting problem
Posted by: jmpatrick (Ignore This User)
Date: 3/10/2003 8:18:59 PM

Hello again,
I've got a job that I'm working on in V4. The video is a 2-camera shoot of a stand-up comedy routine that was shot in a room that had nothing but florescent lighting. Of course, everything looks a bit blue/green. Does anyone have experience with color correcting this sort of problem?

Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

jp
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Subject: RE: Florescent lighting problem
Posted by: BillyBoy (Ignore This User)
Date: 3/10/2003 8:55:32 PM

http://www.wideopenwest.com/%7Ewvg/tutorial-menu.htm
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Subject: RE: Florescent lighting problem
Posted by: xgenei (Ignore This User)
Date: 3/13/2003 5:13:22 PM

For other lookers, there are a variety of "problems" associated with fluorescents and dimmers. Generally classed into electrical noise, audio noise, color, flicker, brightness, and glare. I came up with a quasi-professional but bottom dollar engineered lighting solution for studio-type facilities. The cost per 8' of linear lighting (actually 2x 4') came out to $300, not including labor. This gets you electrically noise-free dimming, photographic color (or your choice), lowest-power, no heat, no audible noise, no glare (adjustable), and quasi-architectural look. The look is the only minor downside since it uses standardard (cheap) fixtures. Real architectural fixtures don't look a whole lot better and are $800 per section and up without dimming. This took 100+ hours to ferret as the information is tightly held. There are a lot of ways to make a mistake. You need key parts (ballasts and dimmers), that you need to order and install in the fixtures. You'll also need matching DC signal dimmer(s) (low voltage), hangers, and fixture covers and lighting masks. Let me know if you're interested and I'll get the numbers.
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Subject: RE: Florescent lighting problem
Posted by: vernman (Ignore This User)
Date: 3/13/2003 9:26:25 PM

By all means, please post what you have.
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Subject: RE: Florescent lighting problem
Posted by: rextilleon (Ignore This User)
Date: 3/13/2003 9:29:45 PM

It would help to know what cameras you shot with and whether you auto-white balanced or did it manually?
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Subject: RE: Florescent lighting problem
Posted by: maylee (Ignore This User)
Date: 3/13/2003 10:23:55 PM

I'm in the process of rebuilding my studio (I moved) and I would appreciate you sharing your information
TIA
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Subject: RE: Florescent lighting problem
Posted by: musicvid (Ignore This User)
Date: 3/14/2003 12:10:51 AM

You know what they say about hindsight, but shooting a few sec. of a grayscale at the beginning of a location job will save a multitude of headaches down the line ...
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Subject: RE: Florescent lighting problem
Posted by: xgenei (Ignore This User)
Date: 3/19/2003 1:59:03 AM

pending . . .




Hope that helps!