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Tips on Shooting a Black Background

Just a few simple steps to getting a great look with a simple black Background.
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Dedo Workshop - Lighting an Interview

German cinematographer Dedo Weigert, inventor of Dedolights, presented a series of lighting workshops at Abel Cine Tech. In this 10-minute excerpt from his master class in lighting technique, he demonstrates how to uses a five-piece lighting kit for an interview set-up. He shows how to use key light, kicker, back […]

Cinematographer Style - Lighting

Below are a couple excepts from the amazing documentary Cinematographer Style. With 110 masterfully edited interviews of celebrated cinematographers from around the world, CINEMATOGRAPHER STYLE creates a collective narrative about the process and progress of filmmaking. The distinguished group of artists including Vittorio Storaro, ASC, AIC (Apocalypse Now), Roger […]

Cinematography Tips for Video Lighting

The first episode of Cinematography Tips for Video Lighting. Hosted by Tony Reale.
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101 DIY Lighting Tutorials

Good lighting is one of the most important aspects of any professional production. Unfortunately your budget may not allow for all the expensive equipment required for that perfect look. With that in mind, we created this list of over 100 DIY (”Do It Yourself”) lighting tutorials.
As always, whenever […]

Lighting Tricks and Solutions

How to prevent indoor lighting problems and utilize various specialty lighting set ups for your videos.
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Comparison of four professional LED lighting instruments under $1K

LED lighting is the hottest thing to hit the lighting scene - and probably one of the most cost intensive. David Tames compares four fixtures costing under $1K

…Over the past couple of years I’ve had a chance to use or take a close look at various LED lighting instruments available […]

Power Requirements for Lighting

So you’ve got everything ready to go, you’re shooting on location in someone’s house, and suddenly all your lights turn off. Everyone has a brief panic. Someone (the best boy electric ideally) runs downstairs to the panel box, turns the blown breaker back on, and 2 minutes later, the same thing happens.
What happened?

Someone overloaded the circuit with motion picture lights, craft services pieces (that innocent coffee maker probably pulls around 12 amps when brewing the coffee), sound equipment, camera batteries charging, hair had to use a dryer quickly in the room, etc.

Lighting with Shadows

Lighting expert and instructor Rick Wise draws on decades of experience to illustrate how shadows can be the most important part of how a scene is lit. Learn how to control the direction and quality of your lighting design to add texture, dimension, and force to your images.

…There are three […]

Light it Right! Quick Tips for Lighting Video

Experts examine the lighting techniques that will help turn your ideas into top quality, professional productions.