From the course: Lighting Techniques for Video Interviews

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Making your LED panel look beautiful

Making your LED panel look beautiful

From the course: Lighting Techniques for Video Interviews

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Making your LED panel look beautiful

- LED lights are awesome. They have an ability to change the color temperature and the intensity. And as someone who's been in the industry for a long time, the ability to not only dim my light up and down, but the ability to change the color temperature from tungsten to daylight and anywhere in between on the fly is incredible. However, LED lights have some issues that need to be addressed, especially when you're filming talent. The shadow quality of an LED, especially one where you have all of these visible light emitters can create something called stairstepping or the waffle effect. So this flex LED light, as you can see, is a multi-point source light with visible point sources set into a fixed pattern, and this is a perfect example of a light that will create the waffle effect if left alone. So let me show you the waffle effect. So as you can see, using my hand, that the shadow that's being created has this really, really strange pattern to it, and it almost looks like a waffle…

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