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Great Thread!
We use a simple lowel kit for most our shoots and some photo optic flourescents we built ourselves though they were costly enough in the end it all works great.
More often than not, however, I find ourselves shooting in tight areas. By the time I bring in the lights its a mess and way too hot, often too bright, seems like a big waste to generate more light than I need then diffuse that with barn doors, gells and reflectors and I dont like to relamp for every shot and I dont have a huge budget either.
For shooting aerobic boxing classes I use all my lights bounced off the ceilings and walls and thats fine plenty of space and I can use all the light I can get but I also shoot allot interviews and board meetings that have sort of an artistic flair to them and for this I go small, really small.
My solution (still under development) The Octopus.
A control head with arms of semi-pliable conduit that can be pulled and bent into place. attached to the arms are low voltage halogen lights the transformer is in the head of the Octopus. which can be located vertically or horizontally. The arms stretch out 6 feet from the head in any direction and we diffuse the halogens with my own little soft boxes and other temporary gadgets.
We started with halogens but now we are working our way into light fibers which are hooked up to a central illuminator. What I am finding is that I am able to create some very dramatic shots in a constrained area with very little fuss.
Not much more to say as yet. Anyone else experimenting with light fibers?
cheers
jp
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