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Godox goes practical with its new C7R and C10R LED bulbs

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Godox has joined Aputure and Nanlite in producing screw-in LED bulbs for practical use on set. The new lights are the Godox C7R (buy here) and C10R (buy here) KNOWLED RGBWW Creative Bulb Lights. The number in the name is the output wattage, and they both offer full RGBWW colour. Both lights are powered by screwing them into a standard E26/27 socket or externally via USB-C.

The Godox C7R also features a built-in battery, allowing you to use it with disconnected prop light fixtures. It has full brightness control and hue & saturation adjustments to let you seamlessly blend its colour into your set. It also features remote Bluetooth control, allowing you to control multiple lights simultaneously.

The Hive Lighting Bumble Bulb PAR30 is an Omni-Color LED light built for high-end production

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The Bumble Bulb PAR30 is a new high-end LED light in the Omni-Color range from folks at Hive Lighting. Being touted as “a cutting-edge tool for film and television production” the new light comes in a PAR30 short neck form factor with a CRI 95 and TLCI 94. It sports modular optics, with both wired and wireless DMX control, a built-in battery and a tough rugged weatherproof enclosure.

Hive says this is their most portable and affordable Omni-Color LED light and is compatible with professional or practical lamps with a standard E26/E27 socket. It uses Hive’s Omni-Color LED tech and a 7-spectrum array to create “full spectrum, high fidelity white light” with hundreds of presets that Hive says lets you imitate any light source in the world.

Nanlite launches its new PavoBulb 10C high CRI RGBWW LED light for practical light replacement on set

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Nanlite has released their new PavoBulb 10C. It’s an RGBWW colour-mixing LED light designed to replace practical bulbs on-set when you need to get a little more control over how they look to camera. With the plethora of dodgy cheap consumer CCFL and LED bulbs on the market these days that people often use in their homes and businesses, these will be a welcome tool in the arsenal of filmmakers.

It is essentially Nanlite’s answer to the Aputure Accent B7C, released in September 2020, but for the Nanlite ecosystem, offering remote control through the NanLink app and a variety of other methods. It offers a CRI of 95, a TLCI of 97, over 36,000 colours with 15 customisable preset modes and a slew of other features.

Aputure’s new colour-mixing Accent B7c LED bulb is every practical light you’ll ever need

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If you’ve shot video, or even sometimes if you’ve shot stills, you know what a hassle practical lighting can be. It’s always too bright or too dim to easily balance with the rest of your lights for the ISO you want to shoot at. Or, it’s completely the wrong colour. So, you have to get tricky with white balance, or gel things, or have a bunch of different types of bulbs on-hand to match to other light sources.

Well, no more. Now you just need one type of bulb to match with everything. Aputure has finally launched the Accent B7c, an RGBWW colour-mixing practical LED light that lets you simulate just about any colour or brightness you’ll ever need.

How to shoot a dark dramatic scene lit by computer monitors

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When I first saw this video from The Film Look pop up in my feed, I thought it was going to be about how to simulate computer monitor light with studio lights, but it’s actually not. Here they used actual computer monitors to light the subjects to film this scene.

They did add a couple of small LED lights as well, to help light up the background and add rim lights, but it’s a very simple setup for recording a dramatically lit scene and making the most out of practical lighting (well, monitors) to light your shot.

An artist created this spooky pumpkin photo using practical effects and lighting

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Halloween is a holiday that can spark our creativity in different areas: decorating the home, carving pumpkins, or creating costumes. And of course, it sparks imagination in photographers as well.

Inspired by Halloween, Felix Hernandez has created a spooky photo of pumpkin on fire that looks like it just got out of a horror movie. As always, he used practical effects, lighting, and patience to achieve all the effects he wanted, and he kindly shares with DIYP some details about this spooky shot.

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