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from Scott Bethel (Mediablitz@linknospamport.com)
I have also heard of people doing that for film, but not video (not to say it wouldn't work and not to say it worked for film). Anyway, you probably want 3200 degree lights. I have no hands on with the TRV9, but since it is a one chip I will assume there is no manual white balance control. I took the long and slow road on lighting, but it ended up okay. I just pieced together a Lowell kit one fixture at a time. I started off just getting a Tota light and a cheap diffusion box. Then a few months later I got another one, a few months after that an Omni light and then another one. Within a year I had put together a decent set of lights. Learn as muich as you can about lighting basics (after all, lighting creates the image, the camera just captures it) at places like http://www.power-of-lighting.com/, and http://dolphin.upenn.edu/~pacshop/lab/lab.html, or http://web.idirect.com/~stld/. Also there are some good books available. Two that are often recommended are MATTERS OF LIGHT AND DEPTH by Ross Lowell and PAINTING WITH LIGHT by John Alton

Good luck!

(posted 9280 days ago)

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