Indie Shows: Rent a Camera, and Grip & Electric Gear from Double H!

Hello all! Double H Productions is pleased to announce the new Camera and Grip/Electric package that is now available along with our professional services. Below is an inventory of the gear available. We offer very competitive, negotiable rates that will surely fit your budgetary needs. Contact us, detailing your project, at doublehproductions@gmail.com Subject line: Gear Rates and we will give you an estimate.

~DH



Camera:

Sony EX1 w/ Anton Bauer gold mount (shoots 1080/24p)
(1) 8GB and (2) 16GB SxS express cards (~2.5 hrs of 1080p storage)

Zeiss T1.4 super speed primes (18, 25, 35, 50 & 85mm; PL mount)

7" Marshall HD on-board monitor w/ Zacuto noga arm

Chrosziel follow focus w/ whip
Chrosziel 4x5 swing-away matte box w/ Tiffen filters

(3) Anton Bauer Dionic 90, (2) Sony EX1 and (2) Sony Z1U (for ground
glass) batteries

Grip/Electric: *all lighting is Mole Richardson and Kino; grip, Matthews.*

(3) 1.2k HMI pars w/ electronic ballasts
(1) 2k fresnel
(2) 1k fresnels
(2) 650w fresnels
(2) 300w fresnels
(2) 4x4 Kino-flo banks
(1) 12' Kino mini-flo kit
(4) litewate baby stands
(2) beefy baby stands
(2) combo stands
(3) roller combo stands
(10) C-stands
(1) low-riser C-stand
(1) 12x18 solid
(2) 18x24 solids
(1) 18x24 silk
(1) 18x24 single net
(1) 18x24 double net
(2) 24x36 solids
(1) 24x36 silk
(1) 24x36 single net
(1) 24x36 double net
(1) 24x36 cookie
(2) 4x4 floppies
(2) 4x4 open frames
(1) 12x12 overhead frame w/ double net, china silk and white/black griff
(2) apple box sets
(10) 25lb sand bags
(6) 35lb sand bags
(5) furniture pads
(5) Matthellini's
(2) mafers
(4) baby C-clamps
(1) junior C-clamp
(5) baby
(2) junior plates
(2) baby pipe clamps
(2) junior pipe clamps
(1) gator grip
(5) #1 grip clips
(5) #2 grip clips
(5) #3 grip clips
(1) wall spreader
(2) 1k dimmers
(3) 300w thumb dimmers
(1) 3-fer
(8) cube taps
(2) pig nose,
(8) ground lifters
(1) socket tester
(10) 50' stingers
(10) 25' stingers
(1) 8' ladder

How to get a Sodium Vapor (street light) look when lighting

Sodium Vapor lights are those muddy orange lights that line the streets of your neighborhood. This is a small tutorial on how to reproduce this lighting effect to make your film's lighting scheme more dynamic.
The light from these globes are produced by energizing sodium atoms to produce photons. The very specific color temperature of these lights can be used to accent the scene you are lighting and create a more dynamic scheme. Below are some tips on how to achieve and utilize this effect.

First we'll talk about my favorite way to use color correct gels to get the sodium look.

If you are using tungsten lights, the cocktail I prefer is to color balance further toward orange using Full CTO (Color Temperature orange) #204 gel and 1/4 Plus Green/Minus Magenta #246.

If you plan to use HMI (Hydrargyrum Medium-arc Iodide, Hydrargyrum is essentially mercury and this lamp uses an arc to produce light) or other daylight balanced hard light sources, I prefer to use this color correct cocktail: Double Full CTO (2 cuts of #204) and 1/8 Plus Green (since HMI's can have a little bit of green to them already).

This should give you the color you're looking for in a sodium.

Now for a couple of different uses for this effect.

One way I like to use this is to mimic a street light above or attached to a building. If you have access to the roof of the building you are shooting in front of, I find using your beefy baby or combo stand commando style (laying on its side) braced over the lip of the roof or leaning out an open window works best. Don't open the legs on your stand. Lay them over out the window or over the lip of a flat roof and throw several bags of dirt over the stand. This method allows you more leeway than rigging a point since the stand can telescope out to gain some separation from the building's facade. Tilt the light down and play with the spot/flood until you get a nice cone shaped spray down the side of the building. This method makes for a great accent on the building while differentiating from your subject's light and the cooler colors.

Another way to use this is when you are shooting night interiors. Combine the sodium cocktail with a daylight balanced source on different light axis' and shoot toward your window. This gives a nice combination of sodium and moonlight accents on your window. *If your HMI isn't too green try to throw a sheet of 1/8 plus green on the moonlight source.

New Equipment!!! Camera and Grip/Electric Package at Double H!

Hello all! Double H Productions is pleased to announce the new Camera and Grip/Electric package that is now available along with our services. Below is an inventory of the gear available. We offer competitive, negotiable rates that will surely fit your budgetary needs. Contact us at doublehproductions@gmail.com Subject line: Gear Rates and we will give you an estimate.

~DH



Camera:

Sony EX1 w/ Anton Bauer gold mount (shoots 1080/24p)
(1) 8GB and (2) 16GB SxS express cards (~2.5 hrs of 1080p storage)
P+S Technik Mini35 adapter w/ PL mount and handheld accessories
Zeiss T1.4 super speed primes (18, 25, 35, 50 & 85mm; PL mount)
7" Marshall HD onboard monitor w/ Zacuto noga arm
Chrosziel follow focus w/ whip
Chrosziel 4x5 swing-away matte box w/ Tiffen filters
(3) Anton Bauer Dionic 90, (2) Sony EX1 and (2) Sony Z1U (for ground
glass) batteries
17" MacBook Pro w/ FCP and external drive

Grip/Electric: *all lighting is Mole Richardson and Kino; grip, Matthews.*

(3) 1.2k HMI pars w/ electronic ballasts
(1) 2k fresnel
(2) 1k fresnels
(2) 650w fresnels
(2) 300w fresnels
(2) 4x4 Kino-flo banks
(1) 12' Kino mini-flo kit
(4) litewate baby stands
(2) beefy baby stands
(2) combo stands
(3) roller combo stands
(10) C-stands
(1) low-riser C-stand
(1) 12x18 solid
(2) 18x24 solids
(1) 18x24 silk
(1) 18x24 single net
(1) 18x24 double net
(2) 24x36 solids
(1) 24x36 silk
(1) 24x36 single net
(1) 24x36 double net
(1) 24x36 cookie
(2) 4x4 floppies
(2) 4x4 open frames
(1) 12x12 overhead frame w/ double net, china silk and white/black griff
(2) apple box sets
(10) 25lb sand bags
(6) 35lb sand bags
(5) furniture pads
(5) Matthellini's
(2) mafers
(4) baby C-clamps
(1) junior C-clamp
(5) baby
(2) junior plates
(2) baby pipe clamps
(2) junior pipe clamps
(1) gator grip
(5) #1 grip clips
(5) #2 grip clips
(5) #3 grip clips
(1) wall spreader
(2) 1k dimmers
(3) 300w thunb dimmers
(1) 3-fer
(8) cube taps
(2) pig nose,
(8) ground lifters
(1) socket tester
(10) 50' stingers
(10) 25' stingers
(1) 8' ladder
(1) roll of Lee full CTO
(1) roll of Lee 1/2 CTO
(1) roll of Lee 1/4 CTO
(1) roll of Lee full CTB
(1) roll of Lee 1/2 CTB
(1) roll of Lee 1/4 CTB
(1/2) roll of Lee full diff
(1/2) roll of Lee 1/2 diff
(1) roll of Lee opal
(1) roll of Lee .9 ND
(1) roll of Lee .6 ND
(1) roll of Lee .3ND
(1/4) 1/4 roll of Lee plus green
(1/4) 1/4 roll of Lee 1/2 plus green
(1) roll of Lee 1/2 minus green
(1) roll of Lee 1/4 minus green
(1) roll of black wrap
(1) package of C47's
(1) rolls of 2" black Gaff tape