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Here you will find articles and advice on video lighting techniques, video lighting equipment, and video lighting effects...everything from the latest video lighting kits to specialized lights for camcorders. Don't get caught in the dark on video lighting. Make sure you are ready to shoot your next video with the proper amount of lighting to get the effect you desire. The last thing you want to happen is to involve others in a poorly lit video and have to tell them that you need to shoot the video again. Make sure you know the basics of 3-point lighting which applies to video lighting as well as photography.
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Lighting Lighting Gels
You're ready with 3-point lighting or a soft-light and mood setting. But ... hum... what's missing? How about some red and blue on that dull white scene? -
Creating Shadows
Dramatic Lighting without Fear (Or, How I Learned to Love the Dark) -
Basic Training: Three-Point Lighting 101
Lighting can be extremely complicated. Some movie and TV shoots use dozens of lights to assure proper scene lighting. Here's a primer to help dispel the mystery. -
Lighting: Using Practicals
Lighting a scene using everyday lamps realistically is a skill that earns Hollywood gaffers top dollars. Here are some tips to using practicals in your next video. -
Illuminations: Casting Shadows
When you think about lighting, you probably think about your lights and where to place them. But what about the shadows? -
Illuminations: One Light Wonder
Sometimes you only have one available light. Other times, you chose to use one light for effect. It's not what, but how you use it that makes your video shine. -
Quick Focus
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Jargon
Lighting Terms -
Basic Training: Looking for Light
Shooting in a low light setting is more than just turning down the lights or opening your camcorder's aperture. You can't take low light shooting lightly. -
Video Lighting: High Definition Lighting
We are entering a new era of video production. Our hard work will show in all its HD glory and our sloppy mistakes will glare in HD horror. But light can help us. -
How DID They do that?
It's April Fool's Day, and what better way to amuse your friends than getting a little giddy with the camera and going a little wacko with your video? -
Illuminations: In the Mood
In lighting, the most important aesthetic quality is mood: the feeling communicated by the lighting design. -
Basic Training: Shooting an Interview
It might not be 60 Minutes, (more like 15 minutes!) but if you want to make your interviews shine like Ed Bradley's on CBS, read on! -
Basic Training: Shoot Yourself!
If you visit a Hollywood film production, or sit through its credits, you know it takes busloads of people to get the production in the can. But what if you don't have access to busloads of people? -
Lighting Your Video: Back to the Hardware Store?
Lighting accessories can be as easy to make as a trip to the local hardware store. -
Illuminations: One-Light to Cover them All
Budget and creative lighting are just a couple reasons why you'd want to shoot with only one lighting instrument. -
Lighting Terms
Glossary of lighting terms used by videographers. -
Illuminations: Moving Targets
In lighting a subject in motion, focus on the important points in the movement path. -
Shooting Day for Night
Making day resemble night on your screen means tinting the overall images blue, then adding white light, and adjusting contrtast and brightness to sell the trick. -
Home Video Hints: Holiday Videos that Rock!
A quick and easy recipe for capturing family memories.