Blue Lights for Night
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Blue Lights for Night
Does anyone know where i could possibly get blue lights, which are used for lighting dark places to still make it seem dark but visible on camera, like from haute tension (high tension).
It just looked interesting, and i often want to film outside at night, but you cant see a thing and i dont have a night vision thing on my camera. And also, i dont just want to film during the day and then color correct it to look dark, because that takes forever to render and i cant be bothered doing it, and the idea is to film at night.
Or would anyone know how to light dark areas, still leaving it with a dark feel?
It just looked interesting, and i often want to film outside at night, but you cant see a thing and i dont have a night vision thing on my camera. And also, i dont just want to film during the day and then color correct it to look dark, because that takes forever to render and i cant be bothered doing it, and the idea is to film at night.
Or would anyone know how to light dark areas, still leaving it with a dark feel?
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"In early days coloured water or silk was used to colour light in the theatre. Later, gelatin became the material of choice."
... I'd sugest buying some gels and a heavy duty work light to play around with at first. Won't cost you more than $100 to play around with.
... I'd sugest buying some gels and a heavy duty work light to play around with at first. Won't cost you more than $100 to play around with.
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Spend the $100 on lighting. Nothing is more cost efficient as far as money spent to degrees of improvement in finished product as lighting. Or just buy the gels and put 'em over some lights you already have, car headlights have worked in the past.
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No. I would rather waste money on an underwater camera case, then waste my money on some lights.
I realise 'waste' might not be the word of the day, but spending over $100 to make a scene light is pretty damn dumb considering I'm cheap. Besides, why cant i just use some lamps that we have sitting around here?
I realise 'waste' might not be the word of the day, but spending over $100 to make a scene light is pretty damn dumb considering I'm cheap. Besides, why cant i just use some lamps that we have sitting around here?
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Get yourself a 500watt halogen light, I got mine and it cost 7 pounds. Then get some hard tinted plastic to put over it, cheap and effective. we only need one halogen lamp its so damn bright. hope this helps!
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Im not just gonna somehow pull $1,500 out of my a** to buy a camcorder DEDFX. I dont work, i cant be bothered wasting my time trying to and i wont until i NEED to.
And no one has said a damn thing about BLUE lighting in this thread anyway, just freaking tungsten lights. I am not rendering 40 mins to make it look blue, and i need other areas to be difforent colors.
And no one has said a damn thing about BLUE lighting in this thread anyway, just freaking tungsten lights. I am not rendering 40 mins to make it look blue, and i need other areas to be difforent colors.
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AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! I tried twice. Twice, and that is all you are going to get. Silly little boy...rhys wrote:No. I would rather waste money on an underwater camera case, then waste my money on some lights.
I realise 'waste' might not be the word of the day, but spending over $100 to make a scene light is pretty damn dumb considering I'm cheap. Besides, why cant i just use some lamps that we have sitting around here?
EDIT: Just read your above post, and I thought you couldn't be any more thick when I read your first one. Well you showed me! You showed me good.
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So, you want to get 'blue' lights, and you're not willing to spend money on them. You asked "Where can I get blue lights?" A lot of people answered your question, but I guess you didn't notice.
You can't get blue lights. You can get a powerful halogen lamp and a blue gel to put over it. Or if you're not willing to put money into it, you can sit there and color correct it on your computer.
You can't get blue lights. You can get a powerful halogen lamp and a blue gel to put over it. Or if you're not willing to put money into it, you can sit there and color correct it on your computer.
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Dude, tint it, it dosent take 5 mins to render, play around with contrast and brightness, save 7 quid for the lamp and 3 quid for the plastic or paint the bulb, what the hell is so wrong with that???? and heres me worrying about how to show someones brain being pulled from their head for my new movie (starring Lloyd Kaufman!) and your worrying about how to do a simple trick of the night lighting!, if this is the toughest thing you come across in film making for a while, consider yourself lucky!
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In your FIRST post you said the words "BLUE LIGHTING" and you now say nobody in this thread has talked about blue lighting. You want to spend less than $100 or more on lighting and need to light your WHOLE backyard???
Just shoot it in daylight then add a dark blue filter in post, no wait you said you didn't want blue, change the tint in post.
Just shoot it in daylight then add a dark blue filter in post, no wait you said you didn't want blue, change the tint in post.
E-F*CKIN-XACTLY! Thats all i was askin, and i dont go to bunnings wearhouse often so i wouldnt know. The light is so u can just see the stuff and so there isnt any noise. I need to be able to have lights coming from other places too, so im not exactly going to crop half the footage and color it so half my face is norm and the other is blue. And rendering half an hour of colored footage doesnt take 5 mins.
Anyway Clarence, thankyou.
Anyway Clarence, thankyou.
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Well, if that really is all you were asking for, then don't you find this thread to be slightly pointless?
I mean, how much brain power does it take to come up with the solution of "buying some cheap clamp on lights with blue flood light bulbs"?? Especially after Clarence mentioned the blue bulbs twice.
If you want more respect on the forums, please, think things through a little more. Don't blow off other peoples' responses because you think they're stupid, when they're actually just reflecting the simplicity/stupidity of your own question(s)...
I mean, how much brain power does it take to come up with the solution of "buying some cheap clamp on lights with blue flood light bulbs"?? Especially after Clarence mentioned the blue bulbs twice.
If you want more respect on the forums, please, think things through a little more. Don't blow off other peoples' responses because you think they're stupid, when they're actually just reflecting the simplicity/stupidity of your own question(s)...