I’ve been experimenting with the lighting for my Oldroid project.  No idea what I’m doing here really, just fiddling around to see what I can come up with.  I’ve bought a couple of gels so I’ve taped various colours over my photography lights to see what I can come up with.

I’ve not been able to find much info on this online – for example are you supposed to use red gels if you have a red model, or the opposite?  No idea.

I’ve found using green and red seems to work OK, with a blue spotlight.  Guess they’re all the primary colours so maybe they cancel each other out, or combine somehow.  God knows.

It’s been complicated slightly by the fact that my SLR and Camcorder both react differently to light levels (that should’ve been obvious I suppose thinking about it) so I’ve had to have the lights one way to take some stills and another to shoot some video.

I think to keep things simple I’m going to do it all on my camcorder.  There’ll be a few stop motion bits in it which I’d considered using my SLR to do but I think there’s going to be quite a stark difference between the SLR and Camcorder footage if I do that.  The camcorder has a stills  mode on it anyway and the footage looks much less grainy once you get it on the computer.

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