Jose Prada Posted December 24, 2007 Share Posted December 24, 2007 Hello everybody! I am new here an I am impressed with the quality and good ambience of this forum. I have learned more reading you here than in months... Well, I am an amateur filmmaker and finally have been able to acquire a starter lighting rig, although I have made a great inversion for me. Here it is: 2 ARRI fresnels (650) 1 ARRI fresnel (300) 2 Cosmolights open-faced (1x1000 and 1x800) 1 chimera 3x3 ft. 5 tripods. Gels. and accesories what do you think? I'm anxious to put into practice all my knowledge (from books and forums like this). Is it a versatile thing to little locations and so on? (I am shooting a series of short movies to put in our web, which is my project. You can see them at www.jindama.com ) I hope you like it!! Happy christmas to everyone from Spain!! :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member David Auner aac Posted December 25, 2007 Premium Member Share Posted December 25, 2007 Hi Jose, nice setup you have. You'll need to add some measures of controlling light, flags, foamcore, white card etc and maybe a dimmer or two. Aside from that it's a nice setup to start out with. Just shoot something and see how it works out. I usually make mental notes of what I'm missing when lighting a gig with my own gear. And the next chashc-ow project usually takes care of that (aside from those HMIs I always seems to lack :D). You might want to add a pepper or two for those little sparkles of light and when you need to hide the fixture behind a beam or other set piece. Regards, Dave PS: You'd rather call your lighting gear a kit than a rig. A rig would be some special way of attaching a light or lights to something... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jose Prada Posted December 25, 2007 Author Share Posted December 25, 2007 Hi David! Thanks for your advice! I will be shooting next week at the hospital -we've got the permissions-. I'll try to light the best I can and I'll show some pictures here to be critisized... Bye!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Andrew Koch Posted December 26, 2007 Premium Member Share Posted December 26, 2007 What do you mean by "tripods?" Unless you are doing a five camera set up, I'm assuming you are not referring to camera tripods. Are you talking about light stands? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member David Auner aac Posted December 26, 2007 Premium Member Share Posted December 26, 2007 I'm sure he is. In German the word for light stand and tripod is the same, so it may be in Spanish too! Cheers, Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jose Prada Posted December 26, 2007 Author Share Posted December 26, 2007 Yes Andrew, as David well says, the spanish word for both "tripod" and "light stand" is "tripode". There came the misunderstanding from!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Andrew Koch Posted December 27, 2007 Premium Member Share Posted December 27, 2007 Thanks for the clarification. As usual on this forum, I just learned something new and interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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