The flos are the key so they are directed at her. The backlight is up pretty high and slightly off-center and that is illuminating the hair and shoulders. The camera is balanced for daylight so that the color from the flos is natural and the tungsten light of the backlight gives a nice warm color by contrast.

Looks good, nice money saving idea.

Thanks for the hints.

Also, the good thing about flos is that they stay cool, they are way more efficient in power consumption, lasting for years and, most importantly to me, they give off way more throw than incandescent light. For instance, for the flos I used in this test, the total wattage is 160w (40x4) and that is a rough incandescent equivalent of 640w...add another fixture and you've got yourself the equivalent of 960w...

Your daughter is such a patient subject. My kids run the other way when they see me break out the camera! Even my pets won't stay still.

Did you white balance?

looks great.

How are you liking that XHA1? I ask because I plan on buying one in the next couple of weeks. Thanks!

He Old rocker, watched your clips for a while and learn a lot on DVInfo forums. Nice test again. When your comming to Holland, take your instrument equipment and lets have some gig fun.

nice

Wow...the Canon makes a great image!

Hi Steven,
I wanted to ask you for a long time how you do the white balancing on the XH-A1? (I read you didn't do it for this movie, but I would like to know what you normaly do)

Like in this beautiful video of your daughter. (At the second recordings:) Did you used the automatic, manual white balance function: did you use a white card to set the white balance? Or did you set the camera to (K)elvin and then on 6500 Kelvin like the fluorescent lights you used?
More questions (if I may?): Did you use a certain custom preset next to the white balance settings and did you use it before or after setting the right white balance?
I hope you don%u2019t mind me asking all those questions, but over here in the Netherlands we%u2019re doing a outstanding discussion about these questions and I would like to know your opinion about it.
Thank you very much in advance,
Gert Kracht
xha1.nl
forum.xha1.nl
(both in the Dutch language)

Panalook2??

It is not just the lighting of the scene which is beautiful! You're a lucky man. ;)

The hair light is a bit too much for my taste, but overall it looked good.

Flos aren't a bit too cold ? Isn't it related to their temperature if in "4 fluorescent daylight-balanced (6500)" you mean 6500K ?
The overall is great, I like the cold light on the very pale face, and the warm one on red hair.