Lighting is an art that can take years to master. Avoiding these mistakes, however, is a quick way to improve your results.
Lighting can make or break your shot. In a perfect world, you'd have time to scout your location in advance with enough budget to secure the equipment you need to create the look you're going for. But that's rarely the case – and even when it is, any seasoned filmmaker knows even the best-laid plans can easily go awry on set.
If you’ve never used lighting gels in your video productions before, they may seem a little daunting, but the effort is worthwhile.
The primary function of video lighting is to make sure the scene is bright enough for your camera to accurately capture. However, a well thought out lighting scheme can add drama and intensity to your scene, conveying emotion even more effectively than the composition of your frame or the...
Hollywood, with its seemingly endless resources, spends loads of money on lighting nighttime scenes. But how do we — without a grip truck full of HMIs — try to approach lighting a night scene? There are a few tricks of the trade that our budgets should allow.
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One of the more common mistakes many beginning and intermediate videographers make is confusing our tools for our medium. Too many shooters focus on camera and lens, but that’s like a sculptor obsessing over what chisel to use and ignoring the giant block of marble in front of him....
Learn the rules for lighting your videos, both indoors and outdoors.
"People tend to obsess over cameras and lenses, but what they think is a good a camera or a good lens actually is just good lighting." Says Director of Photography William Hellmuth. He is based in Orange County and has been behind the camera for more than 10 years....
"If you really look carefully at natural light, you realize how complex it is, and how it's constantly shifting. When you put up an HMI and diffusion or bounce, it's very monochromatic and has a different feeling. So we burned our bridges, and sent all the lights back to...
For those of us who contribute daily to the motion content business, eventually you will be asked to light a large subject or group of subjects within a single frame. This will involve a different set of criteria than just lighting just one actor, or object. You must think...
