{"id":65,"date":"2008-09-03T10:22:25","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T14:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/?p=65"},"modified":"2008-09-03T10:22:25","modified_gmt":"2008-09-03T14:22:25","slug":"video-lighting-enters-the-21st-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/03\/video-lighting-enters-the-21st-century\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Lighting Enters The 21st Century"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you want professional looking video, you need to use professional lighting.\u00a0 And for decades, professional lighting meant light kits with halogen bulbs.<\/p>\n

Halgoen has it’s benefits…the color of the light is consistent, it’s produces great light and the light housing is generally small.\u00a0 But as anyone who has worked with halogen lights knows, they also run VERY HOT, the bulbs don’t last long and they suck a lot of power.<\/p>\n

Thankfully, over the past few years some new (and better) alternatives to halogen lighting have come about.\u00a0 The first was fluorescent lighting.\u00a0 When most people think of fluorescent lights, images of horrible, flickering office lights come to mind.<\/p>\n

\"\"But this isn’t the case with fluorescent lights made for video.\u00a0 Their color temperature has been tweaked to suit video and multiple lights are banked into single housings…providing plenty of light.\u00a0 In fact, most television studios now use fluorescent lights for their newscasts.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Because they run cool, use little power, provide great light and the bulbs last for thousands of hours (compared to hundreds of hours with halogen bulbs).\u00a0 Added bonus<\/strong>…fluorescent lights are said to take years off of your face.<\/p>\n

But the newest entry into the video lighting world is LED lights.\u00a0 Yes, those tiny little lights that used to be part of those Radio Shack “science kits” are now used for video lighting.\u00a0 And they may be the best choice of all.\u00a0 Anywhere between 500 to 1,000 of these lights are packed into a single housing and provide brilliant, color-temperature correct lighting for video.<\/p>\n

\"\"But the real magic comes with the power they consume…which is almost none (by the way, they give off zero heat as well).\u00a0 That means LED lights can run off of batteries, making them completely portable.\u00a0 Need to shoot a video outside or in a remote location without power?\u00a0 No problem.\u00a0 Just charge a battery pack and take your LED lights with you.<\/p>\n

The drawback to LED lights (and sometimes with fluorescents) is the cost.\u00a0 Generally, they are more expensive than their halogen counterparts.\u00a0 But with the extra cost, you gain thousands of hours in bulb life and can eliminate the energy-draining heat from your video shoots.<\/p>\n

Where you can find fluorescent or LED lights suitable for video?\u00a0 Here are a few resources I recommend:<\/p>\n

Flolight<\/a><\/p>\n

Coollights<\/a><\/p>\n

Kinoflo<\/a><\/p>\n

Litepanels<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you want professional looking video, you need to use professional lighting.\u00a0 And for decades, professional lighting meant light kits with halogen bulbs. Halgoen has it’s benefits…the color of the light is consistent, it’s produces great light and the light housing is generally small.\u00a0 But as anyone who has worked with halogen lights knows, they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[8],"tags":[57,56],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}