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Right on, Andrew! I think I tend to use ellipsoidals and joleekos instead of fresnels... but I miss the fresnels:) I do like the Aladdin’s too. Most people here use LiteMats... so I’m kind of a rebel:) I wish I could use the detail you used in the breakdown of the beauty shoot you did... but it takes a little more time!

I’m glad you find them helpful, Mathinirai.

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You are very welcome and I’m glad you find them helpful. All the best with you work!

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Thank you, Petar! Glad to be of some help.

Glad to hear it, Josh... welcome!

Yeah, but I forgot to mention you... Sam Slade, everyone: Intrepid AC, Effects Editor, and probably a whole lot more!

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The airport was one long day and the other scenes were another day. I’m not sure what diffusion was in the 12x above the car, but yes, it was still to much light so the net was added. The fridge was a diffused litegear strip. I had the 2’ RGB Quasar ready to go, but we didn’t need it. I also had some Litegear strips under the kitchen counter so it wouldn’t be a dark hole. I don’t remember having a separate discussion about color balance following the storyline, but that doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. DP, Chris Gonzalez, usually does the post color, so I probably just followed whatever he asked for... :)

hi sir, is it possible to use 750w source four leko for the same purpose ?

Yes, 750’s are great! If you want to have a daylight balance you’ll obviously lose a fair amount of output, but you knew that:)

Yes... the less you see of me the better:)

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I’m always looking for units that I can travel with. For me, Jokers became Area 48’s, became Astras, became Aladdins. All these units are not interchangeable: where one unit has more output but less tuneability another unit is bright and tunable, but has a small face. It’s always something! Litemats frustrated me early on because of their funky connectors and ballasts that were not easily DMXable or run off v-mounts. Now that’s been figured out, but it took a few iterations. In the meantime, I picked up a 1x2 Aladdin and then the two 3x3’s. LiteMats are great: light, thin, and readily available, but they do take up a fair amount of room because they don’t fold up. To be fair, I don’t break down the Aladdins too often either because I’ve been working on a better framing system that will travel well. That will show up in an upcoming episode:) The Aladdin is not perfect either. I wish the 350w power set up was better designed, for instance. One other reason I haven’t yet gotten into Litemats is that DP’s have not specifically requested them or have been fine with the Aladdins... That’s my story and I’m sticking to it:)

@@meetthegaffer Thank you! It all make sense. Looking forward to more of your videos!

Two days... airport one day and the others on the second day. I think we were 2+2 and maybe we got a swing for the airport day.

As you point out, neither the Aladdins nor the Astras allow +\- grn tuning, but we figured we’d let the store lights go and just get the Kelvin close and have our lights be the main light on the talent and block the house lights near camera. Having RGB tunable lights is optimum, but large spaces often have more than one color source, so unless you have time and resources to replace or gel, it’s not always possible to just tune to one color. Sometimes you just control what’s illuminating the talent and go with:) Eventually everything will be RGBW and tuneable, right!?

@@meetthegaffer we can only hope!

We had handlers, so the gear was no problem... but we humans had to go through the regular line:)

I’m not smart enough to do anything too complicated, so I’m glad when simple is the chosen approach:)

We actually had to work around the blown fuse for that first set-up.

Hmmm... I use regular theatrical gobos that one could use in a 750w tungsten ellipsoidal. Sorry, I’m not sure.

​@@meetthegaffer Midas touch! Are you using them on both 400s and 800s with no problem?

Yes. I don’t own a 1600, so just the 800, 400, and of course the ETC DaylightHD LEDs, but they don’t have the same kind of heat:)

The Aladdin’s in this case were used as a sort of front fill, where the Skypanels were often creating the main motivating source. I do often use the Aladdins as a Key source for smaller interviews. I’m not sure what my stops were on those vignettes. The 350W, for instance, is not as punchy as the S60 Skypanels because the wattage is a little lower and the overall source size is larger which means the emitters are more spread out. However, I like the Aladdins and the Celeb 850 not because they have less output, but because I can put them into play and know that I’m starting with a larger source size without having to put a frame of diffusion in front to spread it out. I certainly can, but the size is already larger, which is usually my goal:) Hope that helps even though I didn’t answer your question directly!

Luke Seerveld Thanks so much luke! Totally agree. Starting with larger source sizes is always nicer. I see now why you use them so often!

Counter front. Just a little something. At that point we were running out of time, so we used what was quickest to make it happen:)

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Would you consider a Modern Studio pipe telescoping wall spreader?

We are stuck in 120V land, so our M18’s are always on the edge of blowing regular 20A circuits. I think an M18 would have had a fighting chance, as we say, but it’s always good to have back up and alternatives:)

Ha, ha! I doubt that, but I’m glad you find them helpful:) At least you’re going to school in a cool city!

I think it was magnets. I have some smaller round magnets from rigwheels that have 1/4-20 thread in the middle. You can attach those to the metal clamps that come with the tubes. Pretty slick for metal surfaces.

@@meetthegaffer nice!!!!

Hi David, The meter on the desk is a 700 color meter. I keep the 800 in the truck:)