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Forum: Flashes, Lighting, and Studio
12-22-2014, 06:43 PM
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Just to play devil's advocate here for one second: work lights are hard to work with for all the reasons given above -- heat most of all -- but in fact lots of budding videographers use them all the time and they can be used if you are willing to get creative. After all, light is light, no matter how expensive the source.
Since you can't put them in softboxes or attach diffusers to them, the trick is to reflect the light. Eg point up and bounce off a white ceiling, or behind off a white wall. Or you can do what I did one time for a fashion shoot and point them at a cheap silver reflector mounted up on a light stand.
Check out these shots ...
All done using a forty dollar 500 watt work light with two 250 watt heads. I pointed one at the silver reflector, the other at a silver umbrella (they were what I had) both mounted on inexpensive stands. I adjusted the angles until I got the light aimed at the model, then started shooting. I shot a grey card to use later in post for WB correction.
Note that the colours in the shots have been adjusted in post for a fashion look, and there was daylight from the store windows coming into the set at 90 degrees from where I was shooting so there was significant blue tinges in reflective surfaces (which I didn't mind as it added to the effect).
So if your budget can only handle two-digit numbers, don't let 'em tell you it can't be done. :)
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