From the course: Video Gear: Lighting
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Using a portable backdrop system
From the course: Video Gear: Lighting
Using a portable backdrop system
- All right, so Kevin, we have talked about using just kind of some black fabrics, some duvetyne or some felt or something like that as a background. Now it's dawned on me that kind of the next step up or kind of a little bit of sophistication is that maybe I'm somewhere and I don't have some duvetyne, or I don't have any fabric that I use, or maybe I'm in a huge space and so I couldn't, I want a nice wide shot. I can't do that, and it dawns on me that I might already have the tools to do this. What am I talking about? - Well, when you turn off the lights, you know, they're top lights, the room's dark. - Exactly. - Okay, so you might want to control that light. So using all those flags and scrims and nets and duvetyne that will control the light. So if you're lighting something pretty simple, such as a headshot like this, right? What you might want to do is you might want to just flag off some of that light and have a room that's dark enough, big enough, and, well, the light will fall…
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