Lighting cameraman

I’m a great believer in using the right light for the job.
Gone are the days when a cameraman would turn up with just a box of redheads. I take pride in using the best lighting tools available and all of my lights have been carefully chosen for performance, speed and portability. Modern cameras are extremely light sensitive and produce bright images even in dimly illuminated environments. Therefore today I can at last light purely for aesthetic effect as opposed to lighting mainly to achieve a level of illumination in which the camera can deliver decent images. Put simply, I no longer need to use massive and powerful 'key' lamps in every situation. Instead I can travel lighter, equipped with smaller and more versatile lights such as Dedolights and LED Soft lights.

		Dedolights are amazing, I don't know how I managed without them. With it's 150W lamp in flood position the light output is greater than a 600W studio fresnel. In spot position, its output equals or exceeds a 1000W studio fresnel. Each Dedolight has an in-line electronic power supply that is dimmable from maximum to minimum. Projector attachments allow projection of background patterns from MM size Gobos.

		Arri True Blue Location Fresnels are updated versions of the classic Arri Compact Series. The T1 is a 1Kw pup that really delivers a punch when required. It produces a perfectly even output all the way through the focus range with no hot spots or dark rings. The quality of this light has to be seen to be believed.
		The new ARRILITE 750 PLUS is the next generation of traditional, open-faced focusable lights. It's a 750-watt fixture that is as bright as a 1K but uses 25% less power. It has a very bright wide flood that can fill a room, and a very intense spot setting for when I have to light at some distance.

Eco-friendly High Powered LED Soft Lights
		Measuring just 12x12 inches, this lightweight flat panel LED soft light delivers a 1000 watts of beautiful soft light using just 1/10 the power of a traditional 1000 watt lamp. LED lighting is about 20x more efficient than conventional lighting. Traditional lamps generate 90% of their energy in the form of heat and only 10% of the used energy goes to light. The benefits of LED lights are numerous: they're quick and easy to set-up, they're dimmable 0%-100%, they never get hot (so break-down is faster), and they can be battery powered for shooting literally anywhere in the world. But what makes this LED soft light really special is it’s very high colour rendering index of CRI 93

Gobos are the textural equivalent of diffusion
These gobos are a series of patterns silk-screened onto clear, heavy duty, heat resistant Mylar. When placed in front of a light they produce a range of effects, which can be subtly textural or boldly graphic. They are designed to be the textural equivalent of diffusion so allow you to take control of lighting texture. I purchase two sets of these fantastic patterns and use them daily. They roll up into a small tube and have become an essential lighting tool in my kit.



My standard lighting kit comprises of:

LIGHT HEADS
4 x Dedolights with dimmers
1 x Dedolight Felloni Soft LED Panel
1 x ARRI True Blue 1K Fresnel
2 x Arrilight 750 Plus
1 x CineBank 120x90cm
2 x CineBank 70x50cm
SlimPAR PRO - Outputs any colour without gells

LIGHT CONTROL
Dedolight projection attachment with gobos and iris
40 degree grid
2 x 18"x 24" frames with single scrim, double scrim, silk and flagx 18"x12"
6 x 18"x12" gobos
Californian Sun Bounce
Grip kit

BACKGROUNDS
8 x Interview / packshot backgrounds - click here to see them
Black velvet 1.5 x 1.2m screen
16:9 Blue screen