This may look like a million bucks, but it was only a hundred bucks. This is not a haunted house, but my bedroom
I'm gonna show you how we built this set for under a hundred bucks
Hi, this is JP Morgan I'm Adam Hagen booth, and I am Katie Loman
And we've come together to do a Halloween shot this year
Terry groves of makeup magic did the fabulous makeup work on our clowns and now we're gonna get those clowns in or work on this
Little set we built in the corner of my bedroom, built this set for under a hundred dollars
We're gonna show you how we live it
I'm gonna show you how we use some smoke to make it come alive
So let's get started and see what we can do
So here's my set a piece of luan $25 old paint. I had in the garage
I mix a couple of colors up with a whole piece of brush, and and then a sheet of brick from Home Depot
Like another $30 we cut that up and use it in a couple different places
We rented a chair for $25 and curtains for about 12 bucks from a thrift store nearby Bob Brown
We got some carpet from the guys eyes walking this morning of Julian and going hey
They're tearing their bathroom out so sent Bob over there. He got to carpet and some tiles and things to throw on the floor
Newspaper we use to make the wallpaper under 100 bucks and props and things from Terry it's always somebody you can borrow things from
All right, let's talk about how we lit this you know even though we built the set for under $100
We certainly threw a lot of light at this set the reason was is I wanted small pools of light and just really
interesting kind of moody and
Scary and creepy light so very small pools of light if you don't have a lot of lights to put throw with this thing
I'm gonna start with a single small light on him and a backlight from behind
And you'll find out that's about 90% of what you got here so first off
We put two lights outside and turned one camera right and one to trick camera left
And that way we get shafts going both directions around our clown in the foreground and look fabulous
So we put a full bloom on each of those to get a nice blue light coming in those windows and those streaks coming from
The heiser they're running from the bathroom on the other side
So we're writing that haze in shafts of light from the sides those first two look fabulous
Then we put a key on our clown, and the chair that would move with her
It's a grid sore where she moved. We try to keep that keyed on her
Then we put a key on our clown up front our main clown
We want a key that we went from high sometimes with that to very low other times and then to very split light we tried
To really move that around we even went to a 10 degree grid and sometimes
We're at a 40 degree grids number five
I won the on the floor - just give us an excuse to have a little bit of warmth in the shot and
Also to motivate some of the light in the corner here
So we have a lamp that's falling over land was still on
We put a baja from behind and that lit up the lamp so number six is light in the corners behind the curtain we put
A red gel on it
Just give us a little bit of read depth in that corner
So it's just kind of an interesting kind of accent light there all of these things change drastically
When you get more and more of the smoke in the room where the haze because the haze
bounces the light around and creates a lot more fill life in here so the images will change from being more dense to being a
lot more open you can use practicals for some of this if you let this light here on the floor burn in and a
longer exposure
It'll give you kind of a warmth in this corner and open up the corner like the strobe that we put in there so there
Are things you could do to be able to make this a lot less simple and a lot less light heavy
But I have these lights and so I turn them on and that's how we let it
We opened up the window put a fan through the window to kind of blow the curtains around so we get the curtains blowing around
And don't forget
I'm using my new Tamron 2470. I'm loving this Lance
It's my third or fourth time out with it, and it's doing a great job. So check it out check out the review
We've got it coming so let's take a look at some of those images
So here's some images with that under light on our clown the foreground
Here's some images of that light a little higher, and then in a split light
So there we go. We've finished our shoot what you guys think it's blast
I loved that it was creepy the dolls and the clowns and the smoking thing is very creepy
I learned a few things though
I truly learned I
Truly learned that you can create just a little corner of any room and create anything in that corner
I would put a few walls up. We created a little bit of junk on the floor
That's really fascinating because it opens up a lot of possibilities, and you think well I don't have a lot of money well
It doesn't take a lot of money, so keep those cameras rolling and keep on clicking
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