[Stan Welks]

I spent some time adding a different backdrop, an ARRI 150 for the back/hair light, and two Divas to light the background.

1.) Does the back/hair light listed in the photos numbered #2 and #3 appear attached properly? Is there a better way of doing this? I just want to make sure it is safe.

2.) I want to light the background to create something similar to a soft/portrait look. Any suggestions based on the attached photo showing my complete setup?

Thank you!!!

[Stan Welks]

Thanks for the suggestion. I added an arm and it seems stable, hopefully it is safe. The lighting seems much better. Can you give me any general thoughts or next steps? How would you suggest lighting the background? Is this possible with only one 4-bank or Diva? I’m just trying to minimize the stands in the small space.

Thanks again!

[Stan Welks]

I wanted to lower the key, however, it is on an Avenger C-stand and I can not figure out how to lower it to the level of the doll (sorry I am very new to this). Is there some obvious way of doing this that I am missing? Please see attached.

Thanks!

[Stan Welks]

[Stan Welks]

Thanks for all the helpful info! I am only going to use lights that I can borrow, that is why I was trying to get an idea from you guys of what might work better from what I have available before going through the trouble of borrowing, setting up, etc.

I just set up a 4-bank vertically without any diffusion or egg crate as a key and I used a collapsible silver reflector as a fill. I am very new to this so I do not know what I should be looking for. Does it seems evenly lit on the doll? Is it pretty flat? I’m trying to get soft portrait like lighting. I will be shooting interviews like video/stills with both adults and kids. I know the background is another thing I need to deal with though…

Attached is an image showing my setup and another showing just the resulting photo. Any suggestions will be very appreciated!

[Stan Welks]

The room has about 14ft from the background to the camera, with a ceiling about 7.5ft above the ground. There will be a large white collapsible background that the person will be sitting in front of. I will be able to block most of the ambient natural lighting, though not all of it.

1.) Would you use the egg crates to control spill on the background along with the diffusion on top of that?

2.) I haven’t figured out how to light the background yet. I am not concerned with the detail, since it is a solid white background. Using KNO lights, should I try lighting the background with the 4-Bank(s) and using the Diva as the key?

3.) I was going to use a Hensel Integra 500 https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/894450-REG/Hensel_8815en_Integra_500W_s_Monolight.html for the backlight.

Is there anything I should be concerned with mixing the KNO and Hensel lights? the Kno bulbs are True Match Flourescent lamps, the ones with the blue rings around the top and bottom of the bulbs.

Thanks!

[Stan Welks]

“you have media in a folder in a very specific folder structure that you can’t modify, or Avid won’t see it.”

With Premiere, I copy media to a folder on my external drive, and import it into Premiere. After it is imported, I do not move it, otherwise it will break the link, and Premiere may not find it. Is this what you mean OR is there some dedicated folder for working with media in Avid that everything has to go into?

“So even if your still is 4000×3000 pixels, if you import into 1080, it’s now 1080.”

How does this affect the quality of a zoom or pan if you are working in a 1080 sequence and you are zooming in on a 1080 photo? Does it pixelate? OR does the photo still somehow retain the 4000×3000 quality?

Thanks!

[Stan Welks]

Thanks for your reply. I am interested in Resolve for other projects, though I may need to start using Avid Media Composer for my job (out of my control) and am wondering how realistic it will be to get up and going with it in a short period of time, based on my basic needs. If I need to transition to the program I will have very little time to learn it and am wondering how difficult of a time I will have doing so. When I switched from FCP 6 to Premiere CS6 it was a fairly simply transition. The interface was very similar, things were fairly intuitively found by right clicking on clips, going to menu lists, etc.

Is the switch from Premiere to Avid Media Composer anything like that?

Thanks!

[Stan Welks]

1. What is the issue with showing logos in the distance on a video? If anything, isn’t this free advertising for the company that owns the logos?

2. The videos I shoot will likely be uploaded to Youtube and monetized with ads. Does that change everything with regards to releases?

Thank you.

[Stan Welks]

Hi all,

I’m finally getting back to this thread. Linked is a recent photo taken with my current lighting setup. I’m using the Diva with an attached flozier and a piece of foam core to bounce the light back onto the model. The brightness of the Diva is turned all the way up, and there is no natural light or other light sources turned on in the room. I did my best to mask the identity of the model to fulfill the wishes of the parents https://imgur.com/2paZfdC

1. There seems to be pink spilling over from the chair onto the subject. What can I do to minimize this?

2. Any thoughts on the lighting? I’m not sure if it is bright enough, and I’m thinking of replacing the foam core with a second Diva.

Thanks.

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