Henning Hoifodt

Hi, The 5k should be fine, your dinos might flicker as you say. But I would do a test, they might be good. Pointing the light directly into the lens will make the flicker even more visible, thats my guess. A trick to work around flicker is to be sure to distribute your dinos equally on all three phases. I dont know how your dinos are wired, but if you have 4 bulbs (on a 12-light dino) on each phase they will flicker off-sync, and the light output will be "constant". Add a light diffusion to even it out and it works pretty good. Of course this will only help you with sources outside of the frame. I dont think there is any solution to prevent flicker with lights in frame, unless you "go big" or use flickerfree hmi's. -Henning H

I'm interested in buying a set (35, 50, 75, 100 and 150mm) of Lomo roundfront anamorphic lenses. Please contact me if you could help me with all or some of them! Send me a PM or email: henning_hoi@hotmail.com Best regards, Henning Hoifodt (Norway, Europe)

I really like your ideas of replacing/black out the existing lamps, but Im not quite sure how to rig my own lights up there without stands. The poles are the kind that bends outwards in a 90degree curve with the lamphead at the end, which I guess makes it quite difficult to attach clamps to it in a safe way. Do you think a 2K blonde would be enough at each pole, or should I maybe go for 5K Fresnells? The KinoFlo's from the cameracar is a great idea I think, soften them well and just give her a slight base ambient. Really appreciate your input, helps a lot.

Hi guys, I´m doing a shot of a girl riding a bike down a street at night, and would really like to hear if any of you have some suggestions or tips on how to light it:) The shot is a frontal MS of the girl, filmed out the back of a car driving in front. The speed of the bike will be quite slow, and we will try to keep the bike as close to the car as possible, and use maybe a 35mm lens. (She will be shot with a slight wideangle lens throughout the whole film). The girl will travel around 100-150m during the shot. The street is fairly lit by some streetlights (sodium vapor) on one side of the road (approx. 30m between each pole), but this is far from enough light. I would like to augment this streetlights with some more intense lights so that she goes in and out of the light, and maybe give her a slight rimlight from a big source far back so that you can always se her "outline" against the dark background. It would be great to lift the ambient light a little as well. One of the problems I can see is how to not show the lights in the frame. Im thinking if I get the lights high enough, I can probably frame the fixtures out, but the stands will of course be in frame, but they might just go black? What kind of fixtures would you guys recommend to augment the streetlights? Where/how would you place them? Im also afraid of all the lights coming from above wont give her enough light in the face. Any suggestions, tips or input will be very much appreciated! Some info: RED Mysterium (not X) Cooke Panchros I have access to lots of different lights and lighting grip, including big tungsten and HMI fixtures, but no heliumbaloons or condors (meaning all lights must be on stands). I have a 24kva genny. Thanks in advance.

Owen Roizman (ASC), talks a little bit about a tabletop lighting he did in a Budweiser commercial in the book "Reflections" (Benjamin Bergery). He actually cut a hole beneath the bottle, to illuminate the bottle from below and make it "glow"! He used of course other lights as well. - Henning H

Thanks for the tip, ill try it out. If its not enough then at least I have som more lamps to experiment with.

Its a 650 fresnel lamp (tungsten) manufactured by Mole-Richardson.

Hi everybody, My first post here at this forum. Seems like a good place to seek and share experience and knowledge, with a lot of inspiring people:) I´m doing a night shot (pretty wide shot) of a car parking in the frontcourt of a suburb house. The scene will generally be lit by a medium size HMI (havent totaly decided how big yet, but I guess 2.5kW or 4kW). It will also be some practicals in form of outdoor lights in front of the house. What I´m interested in is to have some interesting lighting at the car once it has stopped. I guess you know what I mean; with the reflections and light revealing the lines and shape of the body of the car, making it look elegant and "glossy". But at the same time it shouldnt look too staged. Will it be best to have many small lights, or one big soft source to get those kind of reflections? Soft/hard light? is it even necessary to add more sources or will the 4K HMI might do the job for it selves? Anybody here done something similar who got some tips? :) Some info: Shooting on RED Light avalible: 2x 4ft kinos, 4x 800w redheads w/chimera, 2x 300w laniro, 2x 2000w blondes and will probably hire a 2,5/4kW HMI Paint of the car is black Grateful for all help and ideas, thank you. (the picture i found is sort of what Im looking for) - Henning H