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Just about to purchase some light bulbs. How many lumens should it at least have to be bright when diffused with printer paper. Pictures of lit sets would be appreciated.
I'm not really sure how many you'd need. However, if a bulb is bright, you can just set your camera so that it looks normal. If they're too dim, you can also change the settings to make it work.
Though, I typically prefer more dim bulbs since it will make my on-set lighting look cooler and brighter. If you use lifelites they won't look very interesting if you have very bright bulbs.
I was asking about lumens (measure of bulb brightness) to get a well lit set like these: 
(Maybe I should Just PM legoguy501 who took these pictures) Also because I use a webcam I can't just change aperture to fit my needs and most light work is done with the lamps not the camera (don't want to overdo the exposer or gain)
Yeah, I just use the exposure to adjust lighting brightness.
Not gain so much, that makes things grainy.
I think lamp placement has more to do with it than lumens. Although I assume he just used normal 60W bulbs.
And does he even use paper to defuse the light? Ask for a picture of his lighting set-up and go off of that.
He posted a picture: 
Well if you think he used regular 60 watts I already found a chart hat tells the lumens of different wattages for regular incandescents.
Also, printer paper is kind of heavy, I would suggest using tissues. Like kleenexes. (Be extra careful of fire)
I'm using 2 60w equivalent ottlites (they're 13w bulbs). The picture from contrast uses 2 60w equivalent and a 120w equivalent.
I don't know the lumens, though. Also, I have to play around with the color balance and exposure, not really with the gain, like Pritchard said. Hope this helps. 
Last edited by legoguy501 (July 26, 2013 (06:02pm))
I guess I'll be getting 60 watt equivalent CFL bulbs (thanks for the help and about the lumens, examples of brightness are much better than all those confusing statistics)
Last edited by END films (July 26, 2013 (07:28pm))
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