From the course: Lighting Techniques for Video Interviews

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Using a space to your advantage

Using a space to your advantage

From the course: Lighting Techniques for Video Interviews

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Using a space to your advantage

- So sometimes you come into a location and you've looked around, and basically it's impossible to make this look acceptable for the look that you're going for in the video. Let's say that you've got nothing but white walls, there's no windows, or you know, all of the things in the office are barren. So sometimes you can actually use this to your advantage. You can actually create kind of a cyc wall, and basically shoot against the white. Instead of a background what you're trying to do is basically create what's called a cloud chamber. And a cloud chamber is essentially an infinite white background. And with modern cameras, with higher ISOs, you can actually accomplish this using only three lights. In this example, my suggestion would be to use your biggest light on the background itself, and not the key light. And this is counterintuitive because normally you would use your most powerful light, and your best light to light your person, and your other lights to fill in the rest. But…

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