Is 100 Watts Enough to Create Fake Daylight? [Intellytech X 100] 

Industry: Here's a diffusion scrim, it costs $5000 Brandon: Bedsheet

i'm not even a filmmaker, i just shoot stills, but your work is sooooo creative and inspiring, and your videos weirdly relaxing as well as informative. thanks so much!!

Your channel is proof that when people are not chasing keywords, seo and trends, some really great original content can be made! Not to mention the value and just pleasing scenes, ah blisss ♥️ thank you

Honestly glad i found your content, and purchased your course. Such Great info. Cannot wait to start putting it to use.

Killed it B!!! I Learn so much with your videos compared to other creators! Plz continue leveling up and share ! ⚡️

Super helpful that you're not bringing out a ton of light-o-metres and spending half the video talking tlci-values, but actually showing the light on set. Much appreciated! Ordering a couple right now.

Another great original video idea man, thanks for the inspiration. 🙏🏻

Finally someone doing practical tests of a light ! Thanks a lot :)

This is great info!

Hello Brandon - thx for the lighting class. Well done! IMHO, color gels can help create scene moods as well. AND sometimes just using a simple $10 low thread count "white" bed sheet can really help diffuse a key light along with maybe bouncing the light off of a cheap white foam board is also a very helpful lighting technique.

Damn Brandon, it wasn’t enough you hooked me on this light (on top of that I’ve already ordered the 2-light kit of their Pocket Cannon Mini), now I’ve also purchased your course. Looking forward to digging deep into your filming and editing process, I find your work very inspiring. Thanks!

Nice work and presentation Sir. Thank you.

I lit a living room in a house to be late in the day but not quite "magic hour" yet, after actual midnight. Yes, it was pitch back out. I had an Aputure 120d outside to light up the 3 front windows (all together) that had the blinds closed on them (lit them up like it was daytime outside) and one Amaran 100d coming through the single side window. Both lights had a 1/2 CTO gel on them to warm the light a little. The light on the side provided the sunlight into the room, with the blinds open and the light high and off to the side a little to keep it out of the shot. Then I had an Amaran P60C bouncing matching color light off the corner of a wall and the ceiling to provide a little complimentary ambient light in the room. Through a doorway you could see into the large kitchen from the living room. I had a 350 watt tungsten light shining through one window (off angle to cut down on the light some) and another 350 watt tungsten light shining at a real shallow angle to the kitchen window that could be seen from the living room. This angle caused the light to light up all the dirt on the window so that it just looked like sunshine on the window, and this kept from seeing that it was actually night time outside. This really sold it. The whole shot looks like a "late daytime" scene and I had total control over the light. You cannot tell it is not natural. I actually prefer to shoot "daytime" scenes like this now as the "sunlight" never moves, changing angles and shadows. This does great for continuity not matter how long the shoot is and how many takes are done, from a number of angles. The 1/2 CTO matched the tungsten lights perfectly.

Awesome vid, super helpful info!

Incredible information as always. Thanks!

Never thought of using hard and soft light from the same spot. Very helpful video 👍

These are some gorgeous shots

This is awesome, super helpful! Trying to figure out how to go about doing this as I live on the 2nd floor!

Love this kind of light review!

Another most excellent video!

Your a beast more people need to know your channel. Gonna share this Asap

I just want to mention that the Sony HLG 3 profile allows you to easily fake night from daylight shooting with no noise. These are great videos Brandon Li. I am going to look at your list of videos and see if you do Day to Night shooting. I think you have one and will review it now.

Thanks Brandon, great video. I really like the way that you break everything down. Out of interest are you hoping to get into more narrative filmmaking?

Wow ! A lot of possibilities with those lights ! Muy interesado en llegar a ser filmmaker !

Good content on how to get by with less on set. I shoot catalog of interiors and room sets and (well not right now) resorts. Catalog is in a black out studio so lots of strobe. One thing I bought which I use sometimes to soften lighting is camo netting. I purchased a white one 6.5 x 10. I allows some of the light to go thru unobstructed thru the camo openings and softens the light with the fabric and it creates an irregular very soft pattern. And I do use fake plastic plants/branches too like you showed.

very nice peace of equipment

Another great video. I'm going to spend the day digging into your content especially the one on how to light the car interior. I do have a question. When is the best to use the reflector and when is it best to use the barn doors and when should I use a honeycomb diffusor. A newbie question for sure but I can't seem to find an answer.

Great Stuff As Usual!

This thing is a beast. Seems like the one I need in my life

I have a 60-watt Godox and its also doable as long as the light inside the room is kept low. This 100w seems bright.

Hey Brandon, thanks for this video, do you remember what the ISO/aperture settings were on this one?

Super nice info man, interesting to see the different effects! Now you need to upgrade your travel trolley for sure😜

Great video mann

Thank you 🙏

Awesome video!

Awesome! Cool video. ✌️

thank you, very informative! But you didn't mention, how much was Iso in camera?

Wow I didn't know you could do that!

Also hope to see you yourself in more and more scenes. The camera loves you.

Awesome video bro! which cam u used for this video?

always interested watch ur content 🔥🔥🔥

@brandon, how do you line up the bed shots? Aren't the beds bulging a little bit differently because of the way you are sitting?

Hey @Brandon Li , do you remember if you used a 1/8 or 1/4 pmist filter with this footage? thanks!!

Nice !

Heh Brandon, thanks for the heads up on the Intellytech! Just a quick question, what do you use as a color checker for most your videos? ( X-rite, Datacolor, ect )

You got the most cinematic videos on youtube

3:22 Ah a nice S-Loth2 Shot I see:)

as a CG artist i think is much more easy and effective to use a practicle effects. it's very useful

What to say. Very nice job, i like it.

I enjoyed your sharing, I am subscribed and liked your channel

Thanks for this video such content is so helpful woooow

Oooh, sexy! It reminds me of my days playing with lights for dance films and rigging lights in the theatre!

any idea how well a godox vl150/Aperture 120Dii would fair vs this? Could you use one of those to create this? How far is your light from the windo approx to get that sunlight look?

Can you share lens and camera settings? Picture profile?

Do you have any feature films online I could watch?

One thing I'm amazed by is how you did all the light setups single handedly...how do you place and test? I need multiple tries to get even a single shot setup right and even then most times I realise my mistakes only in post!

Evry little is enough when there is brandon...

Great video again! :) At 6:26 you're looking like a mini version of yourself next to the giant switch and doors. How tall are you tho? :D

I love the video! I just think its more helpful to talk about the amount of lumens than the amount of electricity the light consumes (watts). Yes its posible to mount a 100w light for day light but not all will perfomance the same brightness to really achieve the look. My english is not so good and i dont want my point to be misunderstood, i think what you do is really smart and at the time artistic but some people could get a wrong concept. Keep uploading videos you are very good at it!

For the "morning sun" look, that is golden hour. A 500 watt tungsten does an amazing job. That's how I did it. It gives the warmth of golden hour without any fuss. Your set-ups look great, but for morning sun I prefer the golden hour look, and that means 3,200K.

what do you think of the haze spray? The one I used leaves an unpleasant moist on things in the house.

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Love you

Could you share your hlg 3 settings?

Thanks for that awesome video! Love your style of videos. Showing what one can do with lighting instead of just talking about specs!!!!

Throwing a freezer bag so close to the light source like in 4:33 is actually pretty ineffective means of "softening the light". The light source in itself is the hotspot on the plastic, which is still far away from, and small in relation to the subject. If you had the freezer bag held up just out of frame, and distanced the light so that it's beam filled the diffusion, that would have met the end goal.

Keep it a 💯

Thanks for this helpful video mate! Does it mean that any other 100W (eg. Amaran 100X/ 100D ) would be enough to create the artifical sunlight as well? PS: are you from HK?

Brandon, has anyone ever told you that you look like Keanu Reaves? Haha

Brandon excellent video. I'm curious which lenses were you using on this video? And I am also curious about your thoughts on the Sony/Zeiss 50mm 1.4 - I'm thinking of pickup up that lens next. Thank you again.

Do you do anything in camera or post to make the image look soft like most film do in Cinema? Something I run into a lot with cameras like the 7iii and the Canon R is that my image looks so digital.

I don't click on any video faster than a Brandon Li one!

plz how many lux in x-100 ?

Nice review! The X-100 is a definitely a nice versatile small light, but for less money you can get the 330w Nice Foto HA-3300B which is WAY more powerful which would be much more versatile in those outside the window shots and a much closer competitor to the Arri M-18.

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good conten t

Hey man,do you think i should go with the a7iii or wait for a7C?

I guess we can acheive same result with apature c300d?

What PP are you using? EOSHD?

For LED the rated lux at 1m is a much better way of gauging the light output rather than wattage as this will vary between brands depending on their efficiency.

Ok kinda of a bait and switch there as a 100watt led is generally not equivalent to a tungsten which is what the misguided wattage comparisons are usually for

Awesome , what is the difference between it and aputure 120 d

Hey Brandon, What pp did you shoot this on

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never been so early

Can i be your assistant You are great ♥️

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what happened to the zv1 giveaway?

There's no magic : The Arri M18 outputs 150x the amount of light. The photometric values given by Intellytech are deliberately biased for extremely close lighting (0.5 m, 1m and 2 meters). The M18's stated photometrics are for more realistic 7m, 10m and 15m distance. The number of lumens per watt for HMI has no common measure with LED. The Intellytech is a nice, inexpensive PAR-type lamp, and it'll work when placed right behind the window, outside of the field of view, to simulate early morning or sunset, IF the room and subject are small and close. What you get with the Arri is the ability to simulate a sunny day inside the whole room and with the lamp way off the field of view. But even that is usually not enough - that's the reason gaffers use 4Ks, 6Ks and 12K PARs. Now, if you've used HMI in the past, you'll know how tiresome they are to use : Super hot, buzzy, heavy... Don't we all wish they could be replaced with small LEDs...

Was hoping to emulate sunlight not for filming but to fight winter depression in a region that's overcast 80% of the year. Unfortunately this doesn't seem feasible for my situation. Granted I'm not the target audience but there is no one making videos about emulating sunlight *for this purpose*.

I feel like an m18 and this light are non at all comparable. If you’re going to look for a more accessible alternative to an m18, the 600d or even the new 1200d are going to be the closest to an hmi fixture like that.

Sun : am I joke to you

$600 for a 100 watt light?! Thats pretty expensive.

Shadows don't expand in sunlight they loose vividness as the object casting them get closer to the light source. This effect can be emulated using lenses. Don't believe me? Check out DIY perks' video titled "Building an artificial sun that looks incredibly realistic" he explains it better than I can here. Sorry I didn't use a link... the RU-vid moderator bot no longer allows regular users to post link in comments unless it's on your own channel or else I would have. You'd think you could at least link to other RU-vid vids but whatever.

Why am I watching this, I have no interest in filmmaking whatsoever.

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