Lighting Setup Tutorial

[Robbie Comeau]

I'm just trying to show that you can get decent lighting with decent lights, and some setups.

There are the images, and this is how I got that look:

Just some simple lighting, a 100 watt house lamp, and a 500 watt work light.

I softened the work light with a piece of paper!

In post, I played with the colors, and I crushed the black to get rid of the blanket.

Here's the video: http://e1.video.blip.tv/1030001759387/ComeauProductions-Interview109.mov

As you can see, the back light isn't the best, and you can see the background blanket and noise. So this is my first time ever trying this type of lighting (getting the background pitch black) so I learned some things.

Enjoy!

 

[Jeff Anderson]

Hey robbie if you really want to soften that key bounce it off of a big ol sheet of white foamcore. I've been doing this lately and am loving my results. Sadly there are NDA's on all of these interviews I've done this on... I'll try and shoot some tests of this sometime with me and get somethign I can post. Not looking too bad though - any way you can get a little more punch out of that backlight? Bigger bulb or dim your key and open it up a bit maybe. Back off from the blanket alot more too and it should be less of a problem. Not bad at all though considering the equipment.

 

[Robbie Comeau]

Thanks Jeff.

NDA?

I actually have a reflector now, so I can use that to soften right?

 

[Luis Caffesse]

NDA?

Nondisclosure Agreement.

So he can't post anything from those shoots on the site, etc.

 

[Robbie Comeau]

Don't worry 'bout it, he sent them to me through PM..Oops..

Just kiddin'

 

[Jeff Anderson]

Thanks Jeff.

NDA?

I actually have a reflector now, so I can use that to soften right?

Yeah what Luis said on the NDA...

Yeah a real reflector would work just as well if not better. I'm just a cheap bastard about reflectors

Check out Walter Graff's tutorials for where I stole the reflector idea from - some good stuff here.
http://www.bluesky-web.com/new-page6.html

 

[RandomHero]

http://dvestore.com/theatre/index.html#

click on the dv creator kit movie and it goes into a nice begining tutorial, scratching the surface of 3 point lighting. the kits are pretty cheap too, considering what comes in. I'd still like to try some other lighting solutions, but this seemed to hit the topic here

 

[Robbie Comeau]

Wow, one of the best tutorials I've seen in a while.

Thanks so much, how much is that kit?

 

[Jeff Anderson]

There's some cool stuff here too Robbie if you havent seen it already - http://www.lowel.com/edu/