From the course: Learning Video Lighting
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Shooting outside in direct sunlight
From the course: Learning Video Lighting
Shooting outside in direct sunlight
- Now the original kind of light we have is daylight, light coming from the sun. That's how Thomas Edison shot movies. That's how we still shoot movies outside, mostly. It's very hard to compete with the power of the sun. Now the little piece of paper that used to come in your Kodak film with how to take pictures said put the sun behind the camera so it lights up the face of your subject. So we started out just like that. We've got Courtney here in front light. He's facing directly into the sun. Now, it's a hot day today. It's noon-ish. The sun is pretty high. Even though it's February, it's low for noon but it's still kind of high. So you can see he's got deep shadows in his eye sockets and also it's kind of hard to be facing right into the sun. Now, the sun is very hard. Even through it's a giant ball of fire, it's millions of miles away so it looks very tiny to us. So it casts very hard specular shadows. We could soften this hard light by using some diffusion. This is some material…
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