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Understanding how lighting can have an effect on a certain mood or conveying emotion, changes how the audience perceives and reacts to your scene.
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Tips & Tricks
This time we will be looking at some simple lighting tricks that can help you trigger these emotions.
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Creating a silhouette as a technique used to add an element of fear and suspense to your scene. Simply grab a back light and aim it behind your talent, leaving them in the shadows. For this effect to work, make sure that your entire subject is lit well enough from behind, he did not have any bleed through. To recreate the street light, which brings about an element of loneliness and danger, raise a light in between and behind the subject’s. Again, make sure to use the barn doors to lead your light in the right direction. Now, we have the right mood set for a secret meeting between our two spies.
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To create a bright happy mood, make sure that all of your lights stand neutral, by bringing in two key lights and raising them to stay and just above your subject. Add a backlight behind the subject. You can convey the mood of happiness by making sure that everything is well illuminated and very bright. For two subjects, add two back lights. Do not forget to always lower your F-stop to open up your lens, so that the light you do expose your camera to is always available. If you intend to add a frightening mood, light your subject from below and make them look menacing, by holding a flash light, everything but the head, becomes a silhouette, which is great for a scary camp fire story.
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How your light reflects how you shoot and the more you know about lighting, the more emotion you can convey.
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