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quiet night shooting
Got a shoot coming up that is a spoken word, to-camera shoot that will be outdoors. The speakers will also be walking around. I want a couple of small lights (Chinese lanterns?) to bring out, but I don’t want the noise and BULK of having a generator around mainly because it will be shot in downtown Nashville.
Are there some practical ways to provide a portable power source? Also, are there any on-camera lights that provide enough front fill but not look terrible?
Note: shooting with 35mm converter, so light conservation is important.
Jeff Venable
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LED lightpanels are great for this; low power draw, soft light, you could run tme off batteries.
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To answer my own question here just for general public’s sake….I did a little research and wanted to share.
You can purchase large wattage inverters such as this one – https://www.amazon.com/Duracell-813-1500-07-Power-Source-Inverter/dp/B000U0M7MY and hook it up to a car or boat battery and presto: a quiet, portable power source! Thought I would share in case anyone runs into this in the future.
Jeff Venable
-Video + Editing + Photo-
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