Hey everybody,
With my recent move to new city my sweet deal on borrowing a friends light kit has come to an end. I was using an open face desisti 1k and 2 desisti fresnel 650's.
Anyway the time has come for me to acquire my own and I have a few questions. Seems like LED's are gaining popularity and I checked some kits out. I have heard that like CFL's you're you're lacking hard light while working with these lights. So I looked for a LED fresnel in hopes of a more focused hard light and found this:
http://www.activemusician.com/item-...&ovtac=CMP&ovcpn=&ovcrn=Altman+65Q+6"+Fresnel
But in it's description it says "good for use when shaping light is not necessary". Anybody know what's up with that? I would think with the fresnel lens you'd be able to shape it. It'd be great if it was a harder light source at that price! But mainly I just don't want a washed out look, need SOME shadows.
But outside of checking out what's new on the market I was checking out some traditional tungsten lights like I'm familiar with. And that got me thinking about some of the other used lights I was considering. An open face mole 2k, Lowel's tota, dp, and others. Of course I was leaning towards these lights because they were cheap finds but I realized none of them are fresnels.
I didn't notice a huge difference in my usualy set up from the softbox on the open face desisti 1k and a diffused fresnel 650 with the kit I was using but I always used the 1k as my key so I didn't really change up the set up to notice a difference.
So my second question is, is a fresnel really necessary? Or could I just barn door and black wrap open face lights to focus them enough?
Would love to hear your feedback, thanks!
With my recent move to new city my sweet deal on borrowing a friends light kit has come to an end. I was using an open face desisti 1k and 2 desisti fresnel 650's.
Anyway the time has come for me to acquire my own and I have a few questions. Seems like LED's are gaining popularity and I checked some kits out. I have heard that like CFL's you're you're lacking hard light while working with these lights. So I looked for a LED fresnel in hopes of a more focused hard light and found this:
http://www.activemusician.com/item-...&ovtac=CMP&ovcpn=&ovcrn=Altman+65Q+6"+Fresnel
But in it's description it says "good for use when shaping light is not necessary". Anybody know what's up with that? I would think with the fresnel lens you'd be able to shape it. It'd be great if it was a harder light source at that price! But mainly I just don't want a washed out look, need SOME shadows.
But outside of checking out what's new on the market I was checking out some traditional tungsten lights like I'm familiar with. And that got me thinking about some of the other used lights I was considering. An open face mole 2k, Lowel's tota, dp, and others. Of course I was leaning towards these lights because they were cheap finds but I realized none of them are fresnels.
I didn't notice a huge difference in my usualy set up from the softbox on the open face desisti 1k and a diffused fresnel 650 with the kit I was using but I always used the 1k as my key so I didn't really change up the set up to notice a difference.
So my second question is, is a fresnel really necessary? Or could I just barn door and black wrap open face lights to focus them enough?
Would love to hear your feedback, thanks!