LED's

[F Bulgarelli]

I helped on a shoot a couple of days ago where the whole green screen was pre-lit with LED's but they also had an series of larger LED lights to be used as keys and fill, everything pretty much was LED, except for a few kinos.

 

I have to say, those lights have their applications but found them very hard to use when you want to model the light, specially in close ups and for backlight.

 

It might have to do with the fact that it's not a single source but hundreds of really small sources that don't provide much punch when diffused.

 

I found it a little boring and hard to create something really interesting and that is considering that I was helping a really good DP.

 

Any experiences?