Three_Point Lighting
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DVX100Shooter
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Re: Three_Point Lighting
To me its about light placement. I recently shot an interview with 3 lights. I had my key which had diffusion on it as well as some black wrap that I used as a flag to control and block the spill. My second light was used on a boom stand which was placed above the person's head. My 3rd light had a green gel which I had facing a wall. The shot looked really nice.
I doubt you could get that same exact look with hardware lights. But hey its worth a shot right?!
To me its about light placement. I recently shot an interview with 3 lights. I had my key which had diffusion on it as well as some black wrap that I used as a flag to control and block the spill. My second light was used on a boom stand which was placed above the person's head. My 3rd light had a green gel which I had facing a wall. The shot looked really nice.
I doubt you could get that same exact look with hardware lights. But hey its worth a shot right?!
Jim Brennan
VHS Member Old Skool
Re: Three_Point Lighting
SCroll through some of the threads in this forum. THere has been a lot of discussioon about this.
I use worklights myself, but having said that; no, your statement of "light is light" is inaccurate. Different lights have different color temperatures. when you mix them, things can go horribly wrong, even with a manual white balalnce.
If you stick with all one kind (halogen, for example) you should be ok. But lighting is an art, and is about more than what kind of lights you buy.
Look for John Jackman's book on Lighting for Digital Video and TV, and keep looking through these posts. Most of your questions (even the ones you don't know enough to ask yet) have been answered in here. Good luck.
SCroll through some of the threads in this forum. THere has been a lot of discussioon about this.
I use worklights myself, but having said that; no, your statement of "light is light" is inaccurate. Different lights have different color temperatures. when you mix them, things can go horribly wrong, even with a manual white balalnce.
If you stick with all one kind (halogen, for example) you should be ok. But lighting is an art, and is about more than what kind of lights you buy.
Look for John Jackman's book on Lighting for Digital Video and TV, and keep looking through these posts. Most of your questions (even the ones you don't know enough to ask yet) have been answered in here. Good luck.
taubkin
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Re: Three_Point Lighting
I guess he said ligh is light because any light can be key, back orr fill, it just depends on where you put them. A softbox behind your character facing the camera is a backlight and if you put a hard light in the face of your subject and the bounce of that alone already give you a reading of ambient light, than that light can be your fill (as well as your key). Key, fill and backlights can be anything from a cigarette lighter, to a 12K HMI, or better yet, the sun. The things to remeber, is that in the most classic setup: the key is diffused, the backlight is hard and the fill is even more diffused than the key. Of course it does not have to be that way ever, in fact, in my case it hardly is. Every worklight is hard. If you have ways of diffusing, bouncing, and flagging the light it can be anything you want. So basically, you will have to choose your fixtures by power usage, ease of use and modify (making your own barndoors, attaching stuff in front of the lighbeam), and your lamp by the color that light is (by color there is wich color is sronger and how many colors are in the light spectrum).
I guess he said ligh is light because any light can be key, back orr fill, it just depends on where you put them. A softbox behind your character facing the camera is a backlight and if you put a hard light in the face of your subject and the bounce of that alone already give you a reading of ambient light, than that light can be your fill (as well as your key). Key, fill and backlights can be anything from a cigarette lighter, to a 12K HMI, or better yet, the sun. The things to remeber, is that in the most classic setup: the key is diffused, the backlight is hard and the fill is even more diffused than the key. Of course it does not have to be that way ever, in fact, in my case it hardly is. Every worklight is hard. If you have ways of diffusing, bouncing, and flagging the light it can be anything you want. So basically, you will have to choose your fixtures by power usage, ease of use and modify (making your own barndoors, attaching stuff in front of the lighbeam), and your lamp by the color that light is (by color there is wich color is sronger and how many colors are in the light spectrum).
Walter_Graff
Carbonite Member
Re: Three_Point Lighting
Three of those 12 inch silver reflectors with 100 watt bulbs they sell in hardware stores will get you going real nicely.
Three of those 12 inch silver reflectors with 100 watt bulbs they sell in hardware stores will get you going real nicely.