Poor man's mancave & DIY lighting test.

[Evgenios Zosimov]

Some friends of mine used my studio for a photoshoot, i was hanging around just playing around trying to test some LED tubes i bought recently.
This is straight from Dragon apart from balancing temperature.
Shot with worn out Samyangs which are about to fall apart. 14,35,85
The lights are DIY, 2 LED tubes (12Eur each) mounted inside a plastic rain gutter and a custom made strobe LED light.
Shot inside my 400sqm Hangar, its basically my mancave.

https://vimeo.com/165224014

 

[Michael MacDonald]

That was so dope... I need to learn how to do that!!!!

 

[Brody_B]

Thats great man! where did you buy the led tubes? which ones?

 

[Eric Santiago]

That was awesome!

Love the ending too

The noise is that from?

 

[Evgenios Zosimov]

Hi Eric, there was some noise on T3 due to high FPS and low light.

 

[Evgenios Zosimov]

Basically these were the tubes from local DIY store. These particular ones are made in Romania i think and exported from Greece, loads of them on the market now, its a matter of choosing and testing proper ones.
Its by no means a replacement to Kino but it works well and its awesome on skin tones. I couldn't figure out whether it was giving a tiny bit of Green tint, but i know the Samyang/Rokinon/Xeen are giving a tiny bit of green tint which is fairly easy to balance out, had no other glass with me to test.

 

[Eric Santiago]

Hi Eric, there was some noise on T3 due to high FPS and low light.

Oh I thought it was from hfr but I didnt think the DRAGON would get that noisy.

Still great work

 

[Evgenios Zosimov]

There was a particular shot i wanted to test, FPS maxed out at 280? with a 2K crop, that one was bad yeah... and she was out of the spot in a darker area so yeah, that one fell apart.

 

[Kalechi Noel]

How did you do the flicker? I need that ...

 

[Evgenios Zosimov]

Kalechi, this was by accident. Few months ago I've created a LED soft light out of 4 old portable panels (9v)..totalling 640 Leds. And i wired it up to a 12V DC Adaptor, but due to the bigger AMP demand from all 4 panels the DC adapter went into so called Hiccup Current Limit... basically began flashing I left it there for hours and it kept going. So there you go, worked ever since. I could add a capacitor and it would solve it but i thought it was awesome and left this one to serve as a strobe light.