Lighting tips for pro film quality When lighting your video remember that more light is often better. Nevertheless there are a couple of things to keep a look out for when having a look at the image in your camera frame.

First lets talk about why we want to light and what it does for your production. Good lighting gives you saturated colours and improves your depth of field. Light outlines an image's texture and following, therefore determining how 3 dimensional it becomes. Lighting is used to make a scene appear natural. If you are filming an office worker sitting at a desk, you can set up a light that imitates a desk lamp.

Direct the viewer's eye toward the most vital object in your frame by using light. Lighting can separate an object ( or person ) from the background, make it stand out or give it flicker. You can control where the viewer's eye moves by changing the light, but its hard to fix lighting by using a video editing program. If it is underexposed and you bring up the levels, your image ends up looking grainy and sub-standard, like using the assume control on the camera rather than fixing the iris. If the image is too hot, that means the camera read it as 'white ', solid white, so there aren't any details in that area of the image.

These are some pointers to remember before you shoot :

• Tip #1. Adjust the lightness of the view finder before starting shooting. Regularly folk turn the lightness way up or way down on the show of the camera, and then they suspect that there video is properly exposed ( has enough light ). When they get into post production, they question why it is so dark ( underexposed ) or so hot ( overexposed ). It is down to the fact you blamed your eyes, and did not trust the camera. If the view finders lightness is set somewhere in the middle ( fifty percent ), and you have got to crank it to a hundred percent to see anything, then you do not have enough light.

• Tip #2. Use the zebra feature on your camera. This function will tell you if the video is peeking, too 'hot ', by showing red stripes over the area. And it'll display green stripes of properly exposed pictures. You do not have to keep it on if you find it too distracting ( which it is ), but it is definitely helpful.

• Tip #3. Use the iris control first. When light conditions are such the lighting is poor, use the iris setting of the camera to let in more light. This can not make your picture look like crap. If you still have not got enough light after setting the iris, use the gain on the camera, but know the more gain, the crappier the final result will be, it is going to be coarse-grained and have tiny saturation ( color ).

• Tip #4. Turn on all of the lights or move the set up.Straightforward and effective. If you are shooting inside and lighting sucks, turn on all of the lights in the room, I know it's clear, but folk forget. Bring in lights and lamps from other rooms if you need to. Open the blinds and curtains, make efforts to white balance if you have got to do this.

Do these steps on any video shoot and your results will be better, and it'll become 2nd nature. You will be the envy of all of your buddies because you will be the sole one that got serviceable photos of an event or subject.

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