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Working with artificial light

Working with artificial light

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Working with artificial light

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- So, artificial lighting, you're going to like this movie because there are a lot of things that, you as photographers, already know. So, if you have done any headshots or fashion shoots or corporate jobs, you already know how it goes. You have a key light, you have a backlight or rim light and then you have a fill light. That' the same, that hasn't changed. Now, if you haven't done those kinds of jobs, and you are used to strobes, for example, if you're using flash, unfortunately that's gone. The flash is gone, we cannot really use flash when we're shooting video. We need to use continuous lights. And there are all kinds of sources. We have fluorescent, and we have tungsten, we have LEDs, we have all kinds. In this case, we're using one LED 1x1, with a light bank, a chimera light bank that softens the light and makes it very very very nice. It is exactly the same concept of the soft box that all of you know. And it works, and has been working forever. So, typically we would use the…

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