Posted on January 25, 2012 in Lighting | 2 Comments
The Oregon Filmmaker, Tim Cash, demonstrates how to make a light board to spice up your backgrounds using a peg board and those Christmas Lights you’ve hopefully taken down off the house by now…
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Posted on January 24, 2012 in Cinematography, Lighting | 1 Comment
In a follow-up to 3 Rules for Shooting Outdoors, Chris Weaver gives 3 Simple Tips for shooting better footage when the action moves inside.
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Posted on January 13, 2012 in Lighting | No Comments
Call them guidelines if you want, Chris Weaver sets up three practical tips for shooting outside with available light.
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Posted on January 11, 2012 in Lighting | 1 Comment
Time Cash, the Oregon Filmmaker, demonstrates how he lights a small space for a music video look and shows off the double speed music video technique.
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Posted on January 3, 2012 in Green Screen, Lighting | No Comments
The Cinematographer for our favorite Underwater Short Film and Blog (The Underwater Realm), Eve Hazelton, put together three basic lighting and greenscreen tips and tutorials for PhilipBloom.net to illuminate a some concepts:
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Posted on December 8, 2011 in Lighting | 1 Comment
LoweRuno Productions shares some modifications he made to his construction work lights to re-purpose the for video use. The results aren’t spectacular but if you absolutely have to use these abominations (as opposed to bare bulbs which are readily available), these modifications can come in handy.
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Posted on December 6, 2011 in Lighting | 6 Comments
Realm Pictures shows you how to build a kino-flo style fluorescent soft light with parts from your local DIY store for under $100 and in under three hours!
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Posted on December 1, 2011 in Lighting | 1 Comment
Scott Spears of Framelines TV goes over the use of Gels and Diffusion for lighting in this Tech Tip for beginning filmmakers and cinematographers.
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Posted on November 8, 2011 in Lighting | No Comments
Master Director of Photography Shane Hurlbut, ASC talks about how the current crop of digital cameras have allowed DPs to build a basic lighting kit using commonly available household lighting fixtures. He demonstrates this first by illustrating how he lit 8 blocks in Puerto Rico and then discussing the fixtures of his traveling lighting kit:
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Posted on November 4, 2011 in Lighting | No Comments
It’s getting to be that time of the year, the days are getting shorter and the weather is getting nippier (at least up here in the norther hemisphere). As the holidays approach, you can put those holiday decorations to good use as DIY implements of lighting.
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Posted on October 25, 2011 in Interviews, Lighting | No Comments
From cinematographer Shane Hurlbut comes an interview with Frieder Hochheim who’s Kino Flo fixtures have practically become a generic term for fluorescent lamps.
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Posted on October 24, 2011 in General Production, Lighting | No Comments
Redditt user Darth Nader posted this letter which covers great basic tips for how to work on a film set as a grip.
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Posted on October 24, 2011 in Lighting | No Comments
Ryan Fletcher at the IBC 2011 presents the ARRI L-Series which includes a fixture that is capable of not only changing color temperatures and intensity, but also changing color completely.
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Posted on September 29, 2011 in Cinematography, Lighting | No Comments
In this video The Frugal Filmmaker shows you an old trick on how to use an 18% gray card. All you need is a video camera with manual exposure and you can get the best results your cam will allow.
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Posted on September 28, 2011 in Lighting | 1 Comment
Art Adams explores the placement and use of the Rodney Dangerfield of the three point lighting system: The Fill Light.
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