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Let's talk about

some unusual lighting tools.

And I'm not going to dig into this too
heavily,

but these are just some things that are
pretty helpful when it comes to.

This is not grip.

This is just things that you might want
to keep in mind to know that they

exist.

So if you are

augmenting ambient lights, meaning you
are using fixtures that exist

a lot of times, those fixtures are dim.

And when we want to add light into it,
it's helpful if they balance closer in

power to our originals.

If you have that option.

And that early stuff I showed you in
the hallway, I didn't,

but it would have made my life a lot
easier had I gone in and replace all

the bulbs.

And so when you are

working with practical lights, it's
helpful.

If you actually put

photo floods in them,

they are a more consistent color
temperature, and they're cheap, they're

not expensive.

I mean, you buy a regular regular photo
flood

they're four or five Bucks a piece.

They're not expensive.

They're slightly more than a regular
bulb.

They're going to give you more
consistent color.

And they also come in a variety of
wattages.

So you can buy stuff that is

your 75 Watt bulb, which is going to be
nice and bright.

That's a pretty standard photo flood.

But you can go hundreds of Watts.

I think 20250,

I think, is where you can get them.

The downside of the higher watered
bulbs is, obviously, they run brighter

and hotter.

So they don't last anywhere near as
long.

You're going to get a few hours out of
that bulb.

So know that it's kind of more of a
single use

when you're using those super bright
ones.

But I mean,

250

that's bright

for something that's coming out of a
lamp.

I would probably suggest it into
something closer, like a 75.

And then what you do is you go buy one
of these cheap dimmers,

and you hook it into the lamp,

and then you kind of hide the plug, and
you can

vary whatever your practicals are

with a dimmer switch.

And so you can dial in that, the power
of that light just exactly as you need

it to be.

So that's a really handy way to work
with practicals.

Now, do the photo floods come in
different color temperatures?

Yes, absolutely there.

The photo floods are usually around 3200

usually, but they do have different
color temperatures available?

Yes, they absolutely do yeah standard
is 3200.

But

when you are working with different
kinds of lighting,

helps to be aware of

these things, CTOs and ctbs,

color temperature, orange, color
temperature, blue.

And these are all different

levels of how blue or warm you want to
manipulate your light.

So for example,

if you are going from strobe

to tongston

it's about a full ctb,

it's a full, this, half quarter

8th, all these different variations of
it.

Same with blue, it goes in the opposite
spectrum.

And you can play with light

to tweak the color temperature.

This isn't about usually creating
aggressive lighting effects.

This is about matching the lights.

That's usual, which you use stuff like
this for.

This is

my little pack of

small color correction gels that I
always keep with me.

And, you know, there's different
different cto ctbs and color effects in here.

And this is just a nice, small pack.

I also have like a much bigger pack

when I need to bring an added variety,

just really handy to have

in your kit, take them on, there's
holders for them as well.

But I, you just keep it and tape it on,
and

it works as a way to

balance my lights.

Ok,

now, I don't actually have this in a
slide but I also want to touch on

the tripod as well.

I use a tripod

for the vast majority of what you're
going to see, especially because in one

of the situations it's very dark.

Obviously, get

a tripod head that you're most
comfortable with.

I personally really like a ballhead,

because it gives me a lot more of a
range of flexibility in terms of how

this moves.

I can get into position a lot better
than unscrew one tilt forward, unscrew

the other.

This is just a lot faster for me,

but I'm going to be doing stuff with
composm, I'm positive plates later on.

So for me, it's important that I have
something that can rotate

cleanly and evenly to help me with that

stuff later on.

So I guess this is not really part of
this, but a good tripod head, and a

good tripod is a really worthwhile
thing to have as well.