Lighting Equipment

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.

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

Lighting for Video: Cleaning Up Light Spill

Julie Babcock - August 19th, 2010

There are many reasons you might choose to control the spill. Perhaps the spill is interfering with another light source, or maybe you want to strategically place a dramatic shadow that will conceal an area of your scene. What ever the reason, learning the ways in which you can control light spill will allow you to better light your scene.

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Forums: Miscellaneous Techniques

I work at a creative marketing agency an we are going to start some video production. What basic equipment do we need to get started? We want our videos to be high quality with good lighting and sound.

What type of camera, mics, lighting equipment do you reccomend if we want to keep it in a 10,000 budget?

We will be shooting things like short films, local ccommercials, video blogs, videos for client websites, corporate videos.

Everybody's Workshopping for the Weekend

Julie Babcock - September 25th, 2009

The office is bustling, here at Videomaker, as we prepare for our upcoming workshops. The weekend of October 9th is coming up fast and we couldn't be more excited. For the first time ever...