Illuminations: Moving Targets
Classic three-point lighting works great as long as your subjects stay put; but what do you do when they're moving -- take the lights with them? Well, yes you can, as a matter of fact; but that's only one option. A more common method is to develop a strategy for lighting the whole area where the movement takes place. What, you say, you have only a few lights? No problem, as long as you know how to deploy them.
In the April 2004 Videomaker, we showed one way to do this in a big dark warehouse, as the subject moved from extreme long shot to closeup in a single take (Check it out at videomaker.com). This time around, let's look at some different situations.
In the warehouse example we began by lighting the subject first and then bringing up the background areas that weren't illuminated by spill from the subject's lights. Starting from a black interior, that's a sound way to go; but when you have more light to begin with you can often work the opposite…
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