Lighting

[Chinasaur]

Soooo... I see a lot of forums "elsewhere" that have lighting forums/threads for Strobists™, studio types, etc.

What do Rangefinder™ fans use for light? Natural or artificial?

I always shot natural with Rangefinders ... but that's because I hadn't bothered to learn lighting and was ignorant.

Any film using, Rangefinder sporting, studio/non-studio types using flashes, strobes, speedlights, dishes, boxes, snoots, etc? I'm really quite interested to see how film users (if any) are using light in a way that I never dreamed of...and subsequently how that can help me/others in the future...

And if anyone responds? Let's keep it on kit & technique vs "natural is the only way to shoot vs Strobist™ can't master natural light" Holy War? Eh?

😀

Admins: If in wrong spot, my apologies. I know you'll move to most appropriate venue.. TIA 🙂

 

[neelin]

For b/w I've used combinations of photoflood in traditional reflectors, 70's vintage video lights, modern shop quartz halogen, and old slide projectors 😉
Rented cine Arri-kits.

Old 70's shoot thru & reflector umbrellas. Matt boards, aluminum foil, sheets & chinese paper lanterns for light modifiers.


I recently added some Profoto compacts (1200/600/300ws). A real bonus doing colour. It's really hard to do groups in scenes with good DOF with incandescent, unless you're using something like cine 10k's or better.

Robert

 

[hoddy]

Having recently started shooting B & W film again after a decade of shooting studio digital portraits its been fun to experiment and I'm currently trying just a torch as main light indoors - see - http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=181024&ppuser=49386

I hope to expand that and do a series of portraits which I'll post as and when!