Lowel Light Grab

avatuar

avatuar

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Here I am testing different methods on lighting with my new lowel dv creator 55 kit! I love it and am learning so much. This is slightly cc sorry about the crappy img quality but thats the windows grabber for ya.

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It looks pretty good given that you are mixing natural and artificial light. I'm assuming you did a manual white balance. Describe what you did for color correction. I have daylight balanced fluorescents for my daylight shooting.
 
I was reading in all the lighting tutorials that there are usually three basic lights and the idea is to make your subject naturally lit but slightly lighter than the background. Enhancing the natural light while using key, fill and hair lamps. In this shot I didn't think a hair light was necessary because the subject is separated from the background not only by a wide shot, but also there is a white light filled window behind me. To my side is a 500w tota lamp with umbrella angled sideways for more focusing ability while retaining it's soft properties. Far away is a 500w omni lamp w/ a blue daylight correction gel. aimed directly at my face. The one flaw with this is you can see my shadow on the wall in the background. For CC I just added some more yellow to give it more of a warm filmy look. Thoughts comments and constructive criticism appreciated!
 
I have the same light kit and I really love it.

I think your lighting looks very natural.

Composition wise, I usually prefer to have my actors left or right of frame, but seldom dead center. I think it gives the image a little more energy.

Anyway, congrats on the light kit.

Chris
 
how did you blur the background next to your shoulders? looks like two small spots were blurred.
I always get a great look by bouncing light off a white ceiling. Or using a softbox on a boom for great CU overhead lighting. Faster than rigging lights over a silk.
 
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