A lot of the time creating professional looking video doesn’t necessarily mean you have to buy the most expensive or library hard to find equipment. Sometimes you just comes down to the techniques, which is what we are going to looking at today. How the light for video? We’re going to take to look at four simple steps that will make this process a lot easier to each and everyone of us to create more professional looking products.
The first thing we are going to look at is the functions on your camera. And how they can help you create more light in each in every one of your shoots. Then we are going to take a look at the existing light that’s there and how we can improve upon it. Then we going to take to look at step number three on of the most important steps, how to supplement that existing light or diminish the light if we have too much. And the last step, we are going to take a look at some of the problems that arise on lighting for video and some of the simple fixes. I’m Tom Skowronski and this lighting for video.
Step number one when it comes to lighting for video understanding, how the camera could actually capture more light with the used of three separate functions. The first function is know as the Gain, the gain if the function that’s allows you to have a brighter image buy amplifying the signal in our image sensor. However, the higher the gain sets at the more noisy and grainy your picture gets.
Now the iris on the other hand is a little opening inside your camera that controls how much light is getting from the lens to the image sensor. The third way that you can use your camera to control the amount of light is known as the ND Filter. What this does is cuts up the amount of light that is coming into the lens and having the chip. Here an example of the different types of setting you could use when using an ND Filter.
Step number two to lighting for video, is checking the actual natural light that’s there the existing light and see what you can do with it. Now, one of the big problem if your shooting indoors is that isn’t a lot of existing light if you look this clip of Julie in the kitchen cooking me some soup you will see that clearly there is a lot of noise in the pictures, there is really on the one window that has a covering over it. What I am going to do to get pass this to create the most possible light and sure on everything that’s there. Make sure that all the overhead lights are on and make that the light above the stove is on, and make sure that the window the shades aren’t covering it. Open that was up, you want to bring in this much possible light to light her as well as you possibly can.
Now, when it comes to existing light sometimes you have to use big windows and sometimes you have to use the sun. Now, the problem is that the suns work out here advantage. So, what’s you are going to do is always locate your location and see if you can change your position. The same concept is going to apply when your outdoors and you’re working with the sun. The sun is a very harsh and very hard light is going to create lot of big and deep shadows. So sometimes it’s better to move that person under a little bit of shade to create more of a natural appearance so they let a little bit more evenly.
When you do this, it takes out lot of those shadows that comes form the sun just heating them directly almost like a key light. Step number three is a very important process when it comes to lighting for video. Each and everyone of us has to understand how we could supplement existing light or diminish light if we have too much. Now when it comes to shooting on doors one of the most important accessories you could possibly have in your video kit is known as a reflector and not each and everyone of us can afford a reflector so a good way around then is known as the sun shade.
This going to be the best possible way to reflect light on your subject, lot of times when we are outdoors we working with the sun, which is very harsh and in generally comes down from one specific angle. Well, now at the used of a reflector if you could see here on this clip we actually can catch the light and shoot it to where we wanted to go creating two sources of light. Now we’re basically creating a much more comfortable and much more studio environment outside. Believe it or not one of the most useable tips here is actually moving the light closer to the subject. A lot of times will be working indoors and when it realize that our scenes aren’t lit well enough. Sometimes just moving that light closer is just enough to create enough light in the scene to our subject we’re look perfect.
Step number four involves preparation. We need to make sure there were always ready no matter what the problem is so that we can fix it and get along with our video shoot. The first thing we are going to take at is backlighting. This is always the problem whether you’re in shooting indoors or outdoors. Here is an example of an indoors problem and I will show you how to fix it. Now again, the simple fix here is simply to move our location.
So, the camera person is actually going to change where there shooting from so that, that light which was creating a backlighting situation is now going to be use almost like a K light to fill in all those dark areas on Jolly’s face. Another problem when shooting indoors is the fact that even though sometimes we have light that’s a lot closer to the subject it’s not powerful enough a lot of the times to completely illuminate the same. In this case, we are going to use a little secret and actually change a light bulb from the standard one that’s in the light to one that is have a higher voltage value. This creates more powerful light and in the end, results in a much more flattering scene.
Sometimes we are running to the same problem outdoors and that we have a lot of light that will end up with too much and in this case the best possible solution again, change the location look around and find some shade put this subject under the shade. When you do this the lighting is a lot more natural and lot more even and therefore a lot more flattering to the subject. Now, if you look at this example you can see that our backlighting is you continuous to happen even we are in outdoors. And again, the simple fix here change your location take the camera person, put there back towards the camera so that the sun is now facing your subject. From here you just need to find some shade if there possibly over expose to create a much more even and natural form of light.
Video lighting is one of the best ways to create a professional looking product, the first step you are going to need is to understand how the functions of your cameras work and how your camera captures light. The second thing, understands how that existing light can be use to your advantage. Third, let’s make sure we all understand how to create more light or diminish the light in case we have too much and lastly some simple problems where they always have a solution. Follow this simple four steps and you too will be able to create professional looking video.
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