You clearly have a natural talent to explain technical specs, work methods and practicalities of your work. Your review of the Litepanel Gemini was the one video that managed to convince me to buy a set and I was not disappointed. Thanks for helping out newcomers to the industry.👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
I like to think I know a thing or two about lighting...but you just learned me some dang good new lighting info! I've thought about grids making multiple shadows, and always assumed larger cells would be better at providing softer gradients. Counterintuitive to me, but makes perfect sense when you explained it. Cheers!
I love your channel, here is a request for you: Why not a VDO on mounting gears and utility, how to mount heavy and light lights, mounting clamps for diffusers and uses. Will be waiting for that one.
This video is perfect for me, ill just send it to young dps when they ask why i dont love eggcrates unconditionaly (other reason include the occlusion effect with big sources close to subject). Would have loved to see a comparrison with big honeycrates, in my mind the multishadow effect should be less, because they dont create straight lines right? I often wondered but never got the opportunity to test it.
multiple shadow issue to me is almost a non-issue as it only occurs at the edges and 95% of the time is a non-issue on set. or perhaps i'm just willing to accept this small trade off for the huge amount of control the crates offer. I'm still trying to wrap my head around the white crates that DOP choice and others have started introducing... anyone have experience w/ them that can comment?
Is there a material available from construction suppliers (like from Home Depot or other big box store) that could be used to make rigid style grids ? They look a lot like the grids that cover office overhead ceiling neon lighting...
Yes, there is a Material meant to be used for Aquariums, just search for "Aquarium grid" or something like that and it should show up, its available in black and all kinds of sizes/cellsizes. Used it successfuly on lightmats, since i find the silver hardcrates pretty much useless. Also its dirt cheap.
I've looked into this, finding a good length of it, in one piece, is the hard part. I know a gaffer who made a set out if drinking straws for his 1x1 led panels.
Where would you use a silver egg crate, Andrew? Seems like none of the benefits of control from black grids/honeycomb, just a maybe 'brighter' (from the silver), less diffused look? Would you get an equivalent look bouncing off some flagged silver? In which case is it just the benefit of smaller foot print? In what sort of scenario are you asked for one?
If I'm popping a back light over a studio wall and I need a flood, but not so much flood the light runs down the wall. Without the silver grid it's just the little bit wider and can spill down the wall. Same with a green screen on a goal post, if I'm coming over the back, without a grid I can get spill down the green screen, but with a 90 degree crate it keeps the spill off the green screen but still gives me a wide spread. But the bulk of the time, a 90 degree grid is useless. If they didn't come free with the lights, I wouldn't buy them, I would just use a cutter under the light.
