From the course: Video Foundations: Cameras and Shooting
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Understanding lighting concepts
From the course: Video Foundations: Cameras and Shooting
Understanding lighting concepts
Now before you can dive deeper into the subject of lighting and talk about light placement, instruments, and gels, you have to first understand a few things about quality, intensity, and color temperature of lights. So let's lay the foundation for the rest of this chapter to follow by going over these concepts. The first thing I want to talk about is Intensity. Light Intensity just refers to the brightness of the light. There are number of things that affect the intensity of light source, such as distance from the subject, size and power of the bulb and how close the bulb is to a reflector, et cetera. Using certain gels will also cut down on light intensity. So I'm just going to demonstrate what that looks like right here, so I'm going to use a Spot Flood knob to make this light more instance, so as I turn up the intensity you can see it gets a lot brighter and hotter right there in the center, and as I turn it back down, that's a little bit better. So sometimes you're going to need…
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