Lighting

Lighting can be used to create a specific mood or feeling, or to simply light your subject and set. Learning how to properly light is an essential part in making professional looking videos. Learning different techniques can help add a personal flair to your next movie.

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Lighting

KinoFlo BarFly Wins Videomaker Best Product of the Year

Julie Babcock - December 28th, 2010

The BarFly fixtures do a great job of throwing an even light. Their slim profile, lightweight fixtures and flexible distance from the ballast make them incredibly versatile on-location.
Light Up the New Year with the Videomaker Lighting for Video Webinar

Julie Babcock - December 22nd, 2010

Great lighting begins with understanding factors such as light temperature and lamp type, as well as lighting design and set up. Videomaker's Lighting for Video Webinar will cover lighting tools, studio lighting, outdoor lighting, light theory, fluorescents, LEDs, and will help you solve some of those difficult lighting situations.
Rosco Releases New LitePad Axiom

Derek Sine - December 08th, 2010

Rosco has launched a new range of their popular LitePad luminaires...
Planning & Plotting: Lighting for Video

Julie Babcock - December 02nd, 2010

There's no question that production planning can save you loads of time. As videographers, we plan ahead for shooting on location and camera moves, but often overlook plans for lighting. One way to avoid potential problems from surfacing is by creating a lighting layout during pre-production planning.
Paint your Canvas with Light

Anonymous (not verified) - Wed, 12/01/2010 - 12:00am

Imagine light as being your paintbrush and your scene as your canvas. How heavy or soft you "paint" that light determines the dramatic focus of your canvas. Understand lighting cinematography for a pleasing "painting."
Lighting Tip: How to Avoid Unwanted Silhouettes

Julie Babcock - November 05th, 2010

Silhouettes are great for hiding a person's identity. However, when silhouetted figures mistakenly make their way into your family videos, professional productions and other projects it's often less than pleasing to the viewer. This lighting error is easy to avoid...
Three Point Lighting

Anonymous (not verified) - Mon, 11/01/2010 - 12:00am

Three point lighting is so ubiquitous that everybody who works with video should know how to set it up in their sleep.
Create Film Noir Videos with Effective Lighting

Anonymous (not verified) - Fri, 10/01/2010 - 12:00am

From the gritty Batman movies to the mysterious scenes of The Maltese Falcon, lighting Film Noir style isn't just about controlling the light, it's about using the dark. You can achieve film voir video with subtle lighting effects.
Lighting Tip: DIY Light Diffuser

Julie Babcock - September 23rd, 2010

The sun is a great light source to use when shooting outdoors. It's inexpensive, doesn't require electricity, and provides more than enough light for your entire set. However, one of the problems with the sun is its hard light qualities. The sun will tend to leave your subject's faces shadowy and/or blown out. One way to counteract
Videomaker's All New Webinar: Lighting for Video

Julie Babcock - September 03rd, 2010

If you haven't heard about Videomaker's Webinar Training series, our live webinars are taught by our experts and feature a wide spectrum of video production and post production topics such as Green Screen and Special Effects, Advanced Editing, Advanced Shooting, and Documentary Production. Next week, Videomaker's weekly Webinar Training series presents a brand new topic...