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4 Common Lighting Mistakes (and how to fix them)

Lighting is an art that can take years to master. Avoiding these mistakes, however, is a quick way to improve your results.

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Light the night: How to light a realistic night scene

Morgan Paar

Hollywood, with its seemingly endless resources, spends loads of money on lighting nighttime scenes. But how do we — without a grip truck full...

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Understand luminance for more control over your lighting setups

Videomaker

One of the more common mistakes many beginning and intermediate videographers make is confusing our tools for our medium. Too many shooters focus on...

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How to harness sunlight for an amazing outdoor lighting setup

Morgan Paar

"If you really look carefully at natural light, you realize how complex it is, and how it's constantly shifting. When you put up an...

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How to Use a Toplight to Illuminate Groups of People

Michael Walsh

For those of us who contribute daily to the motion content business, eventually you will be asked to light a large subject or group...

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The Five Most Difficult Lighting Scenarios and How to Handle Them

Jeff Chaves

We caught up with a 40-year industry veteran and university professor for some lighting advice.

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A Step by Step Guide to Creating Bright Window Lighting without a Window

Sean Berry

You don’t always have the luxury of filming in an area where there are windows. Sometimes you have to film on sets where there...

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An Easy, 4-step Method to Video Lighting

Marc Johnson

In this article I will share with you the KISS method — or Keep It Simple Stupid — as it pertains to various aspects...

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How to Calculate Contrast Ratios for More Professional Lighting Setups

Marc Johnson

There is something that a good video producer or cinematographer should understand to help better create engaging shots that develop the emotion on screen and set the tone of a project...that is a proper contrast ratio.

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Get More Dynamic Lighting with Mixed Color Temperatures

Jason Miller

As filmmakers, we’re storytellers. Through our lenses, we unfold the chronicles of the human experience. Whether we are taking the viewer on a fictional...