Everything we see is a reflection of light. Proper lighting of your scenes makes for better video. Three Point Lighting is the industry standard for video interviews etc. And as we always say, once you learn the rules you can break them to make it better. In Episode 38 Video QuickTips delves into the basics of the classic three point lighting set up.
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4 responses so far ↓
1 joe // Feb 13, 2012 at 10:01 pm
nice video Bill, appreciate the post.
2 admin // Feb 13, 2012 at 10:31 pm
Thanks Joe. As always, any questions, comments, ideas, thoughts, rants, raves…lol all are appreciated.
3 Tim Lenz // Feb 14, 2012 at 9:09 am
Great tip Bill. My only suggestion would be to include a top-down view at wrap up to illustrate the lights and their positions in respect to their relationship with the subject and the camera. You know what they say about a picture…Thanks again.
4 admin // Feb 14, 2012 at 3:37 pm
Great Idea Tim! I just added a diagram to the post.
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