Posted on August 23, 2010 in Lighting | 10 Comments
The interplay between light and dark – this is the essence of filmmaking. Moving from behind the lens of the camera, the lighting is the filmmaker’s brush. John Hess takes a look at the Impact Qualite 300 and B&H Qualite kits.
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Posted on August 13, 2010 in Lighting | No Comments
This quick tip shows you the right way to install and remove a soft box on a light.
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Posted on July 31, 2010 in Cinematography, Digital Effects, Editing, Lighting | No Comments
This video shows you how to remove those nasty brown horizontal band lines from your footage. These lines can sometimes show up when shooting under florescent lights and create a really bad effect. They can be mostly removed using Final Cut Pro’s “Limit Effect” tool built into the “3 Way Color Corrector.”
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Posted on July 8, 2010 in Lighting | No Comments
Jeffery Seckendorf discusses and demonstrates a couple of Color topics for shooting film and digital. You control the color and you control the emotion. Watch as he explains the basics of color theory for shooting.
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Posted on July 6, 2010 in Cinematography, Lighting | 5 Comments
John Hess reviews the Canon EOS 1D mkIV – the latest offering of Canon’s flagship 1D camera. The HD-DSLR camera revolution is about 2 years old now and there’s still a considerable amount of controversy in certain circles surrounding their use. Basically it boils down to two camps – one group of filmmakers who never had access to great equipment who all of a sudden have in their hand a camera that can mimic the look of film.
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Posted on May 5, 2010 in Lighting | 1 Comment
This DIY video lighting tutorial demonstrates how to use plastic cups from the dollar store to create a cool lighting effect.
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Posted on March 11, 2010 in Cinematography, Lighting | No Comments
Just a few simple steps to getting a great look with a simple black Background.
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Posted on February 21, 2010 in Lighting | No Comments
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 light, background and fill lights [...]
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Posted on February 17, 2010 in Cinematography, Lighting | No Comments
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 Deakins, ASC, BSC (No Country [...]
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Posted on February 17, 2010 in Cinematography, Lighting | No Comments
The first episode of Cinematography Tips for Video Lighting. Hosted by Tony Reale.
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Posted on October 8, 2009 in Featured, Lighting | 7 Comments
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 you are dealing with electricity [...]
Posted on September 9, 2009 in Lighting | No Comments
How to prevent indoor lighting problems and utilize various specialty lighting set ups for your videos.
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Posted on July 27, 2009 in Lighting | No Comments
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 in the marketplace. Today you [...]
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Posted on March 26, 2009 in Lighting | No Comments
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.
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Posted on December 17, 2008 in Lighting | No Comments
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 keys to good lighting. Learn [...]
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