Depends on your budget. Most low budget amateur shoots use halogen shop lights from Home Depot or Lowes. They actually work very well except they are better heaters than light sources. They get very hot and so does the room. But halogen light is full spectrum white light that can give very good color is properly balanced, and these lights give out a tremendous amount of light and they're cheap. High budget shoots use banks of full spectrum florescent lights. They're much cooler to operate but require many more expensive bulbs to produce enough lumens to light a set.
No experience with them specifically, but their website seems to say the right things. Those should work for you. Just be sure you get enough light. You can't have too much light for shooting porn. As a rule, you need more than you think you do.
^ I watched the video. Pretty lame. All he did was assemble the light and turn it on. There was nothing about how to light a set. Worthless! FWIW, the biggest problems you'll have lighting a porn set is 1) getting enough light, particularly if you're shooting without any sunlight from windows, and 2) getting light from down under to light penetration shots in certain positions like doggie. Don't bother reading about lighting for portraits or studios lighting or any of that BS, it doesn't apply to porn sets. Besides the total amount of light and where the light is coming from, the other things you'll need to study and understand is the quality of your light (full spectrum), white balance and what color to white balance to, and light temperature. Trust me, you need to develop a working knowledge of light and understand how it affects the video image you capture. It's not hard, but it will take some effort to understand because some of it isn't obvious. Your eye/brain are amazing and they do things automatically that your camera won't. You're just gonna have to understand it or your videos will look like shit.
I think that for a normal room or a hotel room, 2 lights, each with 4 stick lightbulbs (2 feet each) would do the job. Also, I think that Kino-Flos have good resell value, like if you get the 1 light kit for $1,050 at B&H Video, then you can sell it for $800.00 as used light. I also light how the Kino-Flo comes in rugged plastic boxes.
What's that based on?? It looks like their 2' bulbs are 40 watts and output about 1600 lumens each. I need to double check, but I think that will be way less than what you'll need unless you're adding significant amounts of ambient sunlight. If you're thinking you'll shoot at night, I think you'll be disappointed. Let me check my lights and get back to you. Also, unless the ceiling and walls are white, they will quickly soak up any reflected light.
B&H has them listed as 55-watt/5500K light bulbs with approximately 2800 lumens. Here is the link http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/258267-REG/Kino_Flo_55C_K55_True_Match_Compact_Lamp.html Edited by - Philip on 5/15/2011 12:59:33 PM
Your previous post listed 24" lights. I went to the Kino Flo site here: http://www.kinoflo.com/Kino%20Flo%20lamps/True%20Match/True%20Match.htm They lists 24" TrueMatch at 1625. If you're using the 55W 21" bulbs at 2800 lumens, that's 2800*2 fixures*4blubs= 22,400 total lumens. I use a little over 30,000 plus ambient sunlight when shooting in my studio. Sometimes I use slightly less on location, but if there's no ambient light, I'm VERY marginal. Plus, I use a small camera mounted LED to supplement shots down under even with additional floor mounted auxiliary lighting. Note: this all depends on the camera you're using. If you have a fast len and fast CCD YMMV. You also said you're shooting HD, that may affect your lighting requirements too. Bottom line, my experience is you may find yourself short on lighting.
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