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ARE YOU planning a children's party in your home soon? Halloween? Thanksgiving? Or a birthday? Well, there's no better time to break out your camera and record for posterity the hilarious, unposed antics of your heir — or heiress!
And, if worry over interior lighting has kept you from this rewarding family project, I can assure you personally that your fears are groundless. For, basically all you will need is enough flood lamps to illuminate the subject. Lest this may sound like cinematic double talk, let's take a quick look at some broadly reassuring facts. All the figures refer to the use of color film.
With only two No. 2 flood bulbs in reflectors (or the built-in reflector type), placed 4% feet from the subject, you can illuminate an area of approximately 12 square feet for an exposure of f / 3.5.
With oniy four No. 2's, placed 6 feet from the subject, you can illuminate an area of approximately 25 square feet for an exposure of f 3.5.
With only eight No. 2's, placed 9 feet from the subject, you can illuminate an area of approximately 45 square feet for an exposure of f/3.5.
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HARLAN M. WEBBER, ACL
Sounds pretty reassuring, doesn't it? That's exactly the way I found it when, last fall, I made a 200 foot 8mm. film of my son's Halloween party. Thus, the lighting plans and suggestions I am about to offer are based on actual experience.
Since the mood of the film would be that of childish gaiety, a bright high key lighting seemed to be called for. As you probably know, this simply means a complete flood lighting of both the subjects and the backgrounds, with all strong shadows eliminated. This proved to be easy to do with ordinary, inexpensive equipment. Most of the scenes were covered with only four No. 2 Photofloods in two sets of twin reflectors on tripod supports, plus one No. 1 Photoflood in a small clamp-on type of metal reflector.
For one sequence, however, the setting was too deep to light both the subjects and the background with only four flood lamps. So two more sets of twin reflectors were borrowed from a friend, one set for lighting the background while the other set lighted the subjects. Arrangements of the lights were changed from scene to scene, of course, to compensate for various camera positions. But my use of lighting equipment throughout the film was divided into these two general patterns. Reference to the sketches will make other details clear.
As a brief introduction to the main sequences of the party, I started the film off with scenes of Roy poring
Able 8mm. amateur outlines simple lighting plans for recording those precious moments of fun and frolic
• A beguiling closeup of your birthday girl can be lighted easily and attractively by the simple setup outlined at right.
• Fig. 1. Four No. 2 flood bulbs in reflectors, approximately eight feet from the subject, will give you good color exposure at f/3.5.