Man I should be paying you, instead of collage. You are literally kickstarting my production company. Thanks for all the tips and tricks. I know you are joking, but let me tell you. You guys are way WAY better than many other channels I follow. Keep it up.
Blurring your eyes to find the best bokeh, using your fist as your "subject", and explaining everything in real time was really appreciated! This video was a treat!
i've been in production for 10 years now. you have this amazing ability to explain lighting in such simple terms and you're helping me understand so much better what to look for. thank you so much for your work, i have no idea how this is free. thank you
Great work! I'm wondering if it wouldn't have been even easier to just use a bounce (like a 6x6 or a 8x8) as a key. Less stands needed and no extra power needed.
Exactly, i don't think having 3 panels + light is practical enough for most interviews, especially if the interviewee needs to move a bit. Just a bounce you can move easily is usually the way to go
I definitely think lighting is the most underrated part of shooting. Most people want better cameras and higher res but neglect the lighting. Loved the video!
Sifoo!! Thank you!! Fantastic video. Learned so much from this video. The hand to know which angle to place the cam is fantastic and the blurred eye method is priceless. Thank you!!
Thanks for your amazing explanation.This video should be the handbook for the subject of lighting. Learnt a lot. Looking forward for more video from your side.
Great job, only thing I would do different is bounce the sunlight in, rather than diffuse a powered light. Usually I just use a slab of white foam core.
You're smarter then what you give yourself credit for. I've been watching you for the past 2 months and you've greatly helped my career. I'm actually now confident when I say I'm going to be a Director/Director of photography.
This is great! If there was one thing I would change, I just would have used a white bounce board instead of the 600d. Much more simple, but it did fit nicely with the Anker ad and it looked pretty nice. I have learned so much much from you guys, great information. Keep going!
Solid advice! As far as what I typically do when filming outside. I take the same principles but not necessarily using any equipment. I find some shade, place them in the best light as possible. Most importantly is finding the right angle to make them look good. 👍🏻
Awe man, I wish I'd known that 'flipping the key' trick a week ago. Thanks for teaching me so much. And costing me a lot of money in lights, stands, skrims, flags, etc etc. I enjoy setting up lights now way more than I enjoy actually filming.
When I film, I’m also sweaty like hell. Is it the tension? Is the weight of gimbal and camera? I don’t know. All i know is that epic light media SUUUUUUCKSSSSS
Instead of a video light you also could use a acrylic mirror if the there are no clouds and the interview does not take that long. With that mirror you could reflect sunlight in the scrim on the left. Allways handy to have in your bag of trics. And when you have set the position of the talent, i would mark that spot on the ground. You made a great video. Thanks!
I actually learned how to set up my lights because of this channel. I am not 100% in the money but I'm happy with the results I get in my little show. 😅
This is nice. Would love to execute this setup. We usually have low key run n' gun situations. Then we look for a shade and bounce some light from the sun with a white reflector in the face from one side. Not perfect but still does the job.
I don't think you needed that 600D for the key light at all. Just bounce from the sun would be quite enough. You'd have to move it with the sun if you're shooting for longer but it would look more natural. And for me personally, this type of 'light sandwich' setup with the hairlight from the back and the key from the front looks a bit too artificial. I would put the backlight more to the side, say 11 o'clock and then the key to the same side so it wraps around the face and all feels like it's part of the same daylight source. Also I would make the key bigger, so maybe an 8x frame or two 4x frames side by side, again to help it wrap.
To me, this lighting setup (what I know as the "sun sandwich") always looks a bit hyperrealistic to me, which might be what you're going for; however, I prefer the hair light (the sun) to be at the 11 or 1 o'clock position and the key light to be at the 9:30 or 2:30 o'clock position. This way, when the two lights are at closer positions to each other, it appears that the two sources are actually one. I would be excited to see you try this look in a future video. Let me know what you think.
@@martiniustollin This makes a lot of sense. I do agree with the original poster, sometimes the key light is so bright in a shot that it takes me out of a moment and I have done very little production work. It's just obvious when the sun is behind you and your face is blasting light well... duh, feels wrong. Maybe it's because cell phone video is ubiquitous? However, his shot looked awesome at the start, wasn't distracting at all and it seems pretty clear the diffusion is making this magic work. When the harsh sunlight disappears then it's unclear the actual position of the sun or the 'lighting situation' so, yeah... diffusion is magic. To my eye, if you are going to use a key light then you better bring the diffusion or you making a real choice.
:) always sweaty when I'm filming... dude, we all relate...even if it's 15 C outside, I'll still be sweating.. but at least here in NL you often have the natural diffuser aka clouds.. nothing compares to that sun you have, damn..
I had been waiting for u only finally got u! well as I told u in one of ur videos that I loved ur teaching way n I have just started the channel n the video I m going to upload I used ur technique n I so happy with the result . will share the link n ur feedback is precious n advice too to make me grow better. plz
so lucky you had 600d pro to shoot outdoor like that..hope to see you do a small budet lighting technique outdoor shooting for us as small production to improve the skill with affordable
Using the Anker Power Station for the Amaran 100d solves my problem, maybe. Do you know about how long the power station lasts, powering this light at about 50% or 70%? The price of the power station is cheaper than buying 2 V-mount batteries, and even then I would have to rig something up to power the Amaran 100d (which I own already) with those batteries. Fantastic light. I am just looking to be able to power it when there are no power sources. This Anker product looks like it solves that problem, if it goes long enough for the type of shoots I do.
I wish i could i do a setup like this in a run n gun situation. My clients normally don't want to wait on me and want to finish the filming asap. And they give me locations not the greatest. I just find shadowed areas or use an nd filter when outside and make necessary tweaks in final cut
It would diffuse the light, but if you didn't move the light stand then your light would be smaller in relative size than the diffuser, which can be placed a lot closer to the subject without moving the light. As a result the light with softbox would cast slightly harder shadows than the light with diff. To compensate you might need to walk the light in slightly closer, which would brighten the subject, so you'd then need to dim the light to suit.
Nice vid. I haven't seen* in the comments anyone talking about matting the floor? If you wanted less green in the shadows from the spill of the lawn you could place a big mat or sheet of black cloth under the subject's feet.
Great vid! Then only think I would do differently is when you are shooting two people for separate interviews in the same space, move the angle of the camera just enough to create a different background and it might look like a different location entirely. Also have the second interview sitting down in a chair instead of standing up. These little changes can change the dynamic of the interviews to make them both more interesting.
Nice video as always thank you, I wish we could meet someday, for me as one cameraman I put behind the subject, then lower the exposure somewhere in middle to make the background and the subject looking acceptable, the final corrections I do in post production, Keep it up.
It looks like a TV commercial lightning. Not necessarily a bad thing but I just immediately got the feeling he is going sell me something. I wonder how different reflectors with different coatings would look like here. If you are shooting a doc a reflector might be easier to bring to the location than the ligh(s).
Dude, sorry about your tripod. Check the attachment of the bowl on the spacer to avoid breakage. You put the light on well, but I would shade the body a little with a defuser on the side of the key to emphasize the face, not the bright T-shirt. PS my English shit, sorry if something is not clear.
Man, I gotta get myself some framed diffusers soon. Only thing I would’ve done differently is putting a giant neg on the grass to cut out the green reflecting light that’s coming from below the talent!
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Haha! The start was so good😅
And the end! thanks legends👌
Thanks for stopping by!!!!! It’s been difficult to justify uploading videos lately knowing people like you are making such great content!!!
@@thomasmanning9111 You were my first love ELM, a quick a brilliant flame, but I unsubscribed when I saw Lewis.
Man I should be paying you, instead of collage. You are literally kickstarting my production company. Thanks for all the tips and tricks. I know you are joking, but let me tell you. You guys are way WAY better than many other channels I follow. Keep it up.
I'm right there with you.
You might want to consider 'collage'
I agree 100 percent. This is one of the most helpful production channels on RUclips
I'm retiring and love amateur photography and creating videos. This information is wonderful. Thank you!
yeah that "Collage" is not treating you right......
Now we need a video with the same outcome but cheaper lights! Someone with $100 budget. :)
Blurring your eyes to find the best bokeh, using your fist as your "subject", and explaining everything in real time was really appreciated! This video was a treat!
One of the most entertaining filmmaking channels on RUclips!
i've been in production for 10 years now. you have this amazing ability to explain lighting in such simple terms and you're helping me understand so much better what to look for. thank you so much for your work, i have no idea how this is free. thank you
Thanks so much!!!!! I need comments like this because sometimes I doubt if I’m teaching anything useful
You are a good teaches Thomas. You are not alone, 162k people awaiting your lesson each day. Thank you teaches pet.
Great work! I'm wondering if it wouldn't have been even easier to just use a bounce (like a 6x6 or a 8x8) as a key. Less stands needed and no extra power needed.
Exactly, i don't think having 3 panels + light is practical enough for most interviews, especially if the interviewee needs to move a bit. Just a bounce you can move easily is usually the way to go
Yes, the light isn’t necessary. A large bounce would give perfect light without having to waste time setting that up.
Sitting here in the freezing cold looking at you in the lovely sun and feeling very appreciative of this awesome video.
I'm so grateful that I found you on the internet. May God bless you Sir!
The more I learn, the more I learn to love lighting and not be intimidated by it. Love this channel, subbed! (sorry)
Everything you need to know totally condensed. Such a fantastic channel!
The perspectives shared on this channel are incredible. Fresh, unique, and real.
😂😂😂 love the ending and everything in between. I always learn a lot.
0:11 thats why i love this channel :-D
the beginning of this is why i finally subscribed. so good!
I definitely think lighting is the most underrated part of shooting. Most people want better cameras and higher res but neglect the lighting. Loved the video!
Thank you for making me smile while I become a smidge less stupid. 🤗 I appreciate you tons!
Sifoo!! Thank you!! Fantastic video. Learned so much from this video. The hand to know which angle to place the cam is fantastic and the blurred eye method is priceless. Thank you!!
Thanks for your amazing explanation.This video should be the handbook for the subject of lighting.
Learnt a lot. Looking forward for more video from your side.
Best video that i have ever seen on how to shoot as pro in outdoors situations… looking very good ❤🎉
Great job, only thing I would do different is bounce the sunlight in, rather than diffuse a powered light. Usually I just use a slab of white foam core.
You're smarter then what you give yourself credit for. I've been watching you for the past 2 months and you've greatly helped my career. I'm actually now confident when I say I'm going to be a Director/Director of photography.
Awesome tips, thanks.
Good lookin out on the link to those modifiers. Exactly what I needed.
can feel your enthusiasm. We all love designing light and you capture the fun of it.
Really good informative stuff. I like to watch these to see what essentials I don't currently have.
Best channel on RUclips. I support you 😘
this is my favorite chanel man! thanks you a lot, and please, if you enjoy doing this... never give up
This is great! If there was one thing I would change, I just would have used a white bounce board instead of the 600d. Much more simple, but it did fit nicely with the Anker ad and it looked pretty nice. I have learned so much much from you guys, great information. Keep going!
Solid advice! As far as what I typically do when filming outside. I take the same principles but not necessarily using any equipment. I find some shade, place them in the best light as possible. Most importantly is finding the right angle to make them look good. 👍🏻
yeah! and the ending is EPIC, to say the not-so -least... that's why i love this guy so much
I will make a video response for this, it's a great channel and I think all of us can learn from each other!
That before and after is impressive. Great work guys. So simple but effective
I love your videos soooo much. The blurry eye technique is golden. In a vlog I am working on now, I used your tips about screen direction.
Awe man, I wish I'd known that 'flipping the key' trick a week ago. Thanks for teaching me so much. And costing me a lot of money in lights, stands, skrims, flags, etc etc. I enjoy setting up lights now way more than I enjoy actually filming.
So, a good set of flags and stands is essential in that lighting environment too. Excellent quick primer.
When I film, I’m also sweaty like hell. Is it the tension? Is the weight of gimbal and camera? I don’t know. All i know is that epic light media SUUUUUUCKSSSSS
I really loved just how a subject that might be meh, he can made of it something really entertaining.
Learn a lot from this video. Love to see a lighting tutorial with a cheaper camera setup.
Quick and relatively easy to do. Nice Go To setup.
Instead of a video light you also could use a acrylic mirror if the there are no clouds and the interview does not take that long.
With that mirror you could reflect sunlight in the scrim on the left. Allways handy to have in your bag of trics.
And when you have set the position of the talent, i would mark that spot on the ground.
You made a great video. Thanks!
Nice video, but why not use a reflector instead of a powered light?
Great tutorial, thank you! You are not alone, we appreciate all the knowledge you share.
the way my earth works, by the time i set all that up.........clouds roll in creating overcast....that fluctuates....then rain...
Love your stuff, and more importantly the underdog image you want to have. You guys know how to teach👌
I'm literally learning everything I need from these videos. Incredible!
I actually learned how to set up my lights because of this channel. I am not 100% in the money but I'm happy with the results I get in my little show. 😅
Great info! Short sweet and fun 👍
Win win.
Learned AND laughed.
That blur test was hilarious. 😂
This is nice. Would love to execute this setup. We usually have low key run n' gun situations. Then we look for a shade and bounce some light from the sun with a white reflector in the face from one side. Not perfect but still does the job.
I learn a lot more on your channel than in a paid course that lasts 3 days. Thanks ;)
so cool! thank you for sharing.
interested in learning more about the cult alluded to at 0:25 ! Been looking for something to pledge my undying devotion to and this might be it
I don't think you needed that 600D for the key light at all. Just bounce from the sun would be quite enough. You'd have to move it with the sun if you're shooting for longer but it would look more natural.
And for me personally, this type of 'light sandwich' setup with the hairlight from the back and the key from the front looks a bit too artificial. I would put the backlight more to the side, say 11 o'clock and then the key to the same side so it wraps around the face and all feels like it's part of the same daylight source. Also I would make the key bigger, so maybe an 8x frame or two 4x frames side by side, again to help it wrap.
hahahaha you are freaking awesome!!! "more important than your family.." thought you were gonna cry for a sec!
Hey you are just too good to be told what to do man, great info thank you
Thank you so much for such an amazing tutorial video. Please make more 🙏
To me, this lighting setup (what I know as the "sun sandwich") always looks a bit hyperrealistic to me, which might be what you're going for; however, I prefer the hair light (the sun) to be at the 11 or 1 o'clock position and the key light to be at the 9:30 or 2:30 o'clock position. This way, when the two lights are at closer positions to each other, it appears that the two sources are actually one.
I would be excited to see you try this look in a future video. Let me know what you think.
So basically blending a reverse key and the sun's natural edge light?
@@pixelcultmedia4252 Exactly
@@martiniustollin This makes a lot of sense. I do agree with the original poster, sometimes the key light is so bright in a shot that it takes me out of a moment and I have done very little production work. It's just obvious when the sun is behind you and your face is blasting light well... duh, feels wrong. Maybe it's because cell phone video is ubiquitous?
However, his shot looked awesome at the start, wasn't distracting at all and it seems pretty clear the diffusion is making this magic work. When the harsh sunlight disappears then it's unclear the actual position of the sun or the 'lighting situation' so, yeah... diffusion is magic.
To my eye, if you are going to use a key light then you better bring the diffusion or you making a real choice.
You're not alone in this world. A lot of camera operators sweat when they have to set up a shot in a very tight time window.
I'm one of them lol
Same
Very good DaVinci lighting
Man you're a genius 👍🏻
thank you for great outdoor lighting tutorial!
How easy you make it all look :). I hope other creators also shared their experience the way you do ! kudos !!!
What do I do to improve my lighting outdoors? I check with Epic Light Media and do the opposite. 😁
THANKS A LOT! I LOVE THE CHANNEL!
*throws gear off the roof*
*gear breaks down after a while*
*surprised pikachu face*
:) always sweaty when I'm filming... dude, we all relate...even if it's 15 C outside, I'll still be sweating.. but at least here in NL you often have the natural diffuser aka clouds.. nothing compares to that sun you have, damn..
I subscribed just because you said not to.....but I have a feeling I am playing into your hands. Oh well, at least everything will be lit nicely.
I had been waiting for u only finally got u! well as I told u in one of ur videos that I loved ur teaching way n I have just started the channel n the video I m going to upload I used ur technique n I so happy with the result . will share the link n ur feedback is precious n advice too to make me grow better. plz
Why not using a white board to bounce the sunlight instead of using an light source?
Would it be to have a constant brightness in case of clouds????
so lucky you had 600d pro to shoot outdoor like that..hope to see you do a small budet lighting technique outdoor shooting for us as small production to improve the skill with affordable
Which 4x4 diffuser was that from Modern? Judging from the yellow piping, it looks like the white artifical silk?
Using the Anker Power Station for the Amaran 100d solves my problem, maybe. Do you know about how long the power station lasts, powering this light at about 50% or 70%? The price of the power station is cheaper than buying 2 V-mount batteries, and even then I would have to rig something up to power the Amaran 100d (which I own already) with those batteries. Fantastic light. I am just looking to be able to power it when there are no power sources. This Anker product looks like it solves that problem, if it goes long enough for the type of shoots I do.
with the battery does it matter it has no grounding pin? also what's your solution for vmount to ac?
I'd like to see you come to the UK and try shoot an interview where the sun has inconsistent performance issues.
I wish i could i do a setup like this in a run n gun situation. My clients normally don't want to wait on me and want to finish the filming asap. And they give me locations not the greatest. I just find shadowed areas or use an nd filter when outside and make necessary tweaks in final cut
what would be brighter? this f10 fresnel with a 4x4 or a 600d with a lightdome?
Do you think a reflector would've been a possibility instead of the Aputure 600? not everyone has one ;-)))). thank you, love your chancel.
Thank you for en"light"ened me with this knowledge
this is so good man, appreciated
Any advantage to using a keylight with a dome softbox vs a diffuser on a c-stand in this situation?
i like this tyoe of house. big flat house, big lat garden, where is this area
To flip the key, do you also have to swap the negative fill and keylight next to putting the interviewer on the other side of the camera?
Yes everything flips sides
@@EpicLightMedia that's quite the hassle though haha, but it does bring variation
Great training material. I am learning a ton. Rookie Question: Would a softbox work for your key light instead of your light and defuser?
It would diffuse the light, but if you didn't move the light stand then your light would be smaller in relative size than the diffuser, which can be placed a lot closer to the subject without moving the light. As a result the light with softbox would cast slightly harder shadows than the light with diff. To compensate you might need to walk the light in slightly closer, which would brighten the subject, so you'd then need to dim the light to suit.
Unbelievable video. You guys rock!
You are epic like always 🌈 🙌
Nice vid. I haven't seen* in the comments anyone talking about matting the floor? If you wanted less green in the shadows from the spill of the lawn you could place a big mat or sheet of black cloth under the subject's feet.
Such a good point!!! I totally forgot about that
@@EpicLightMedia cheers man!
T'es le meilleur mec !
Great vid! Then only think I would do differently is when you are shooting two people for separate interviews in the same space, move the angle of the camera just enough to create a different background and it might look like a different location entirely. Also have the second interview sitting down in a chair instead of standing up. These little changes can change the dynamic of the interviews to make them both more interesting.
Is that 600d on 100%, or can I achieve this with a Amaran 200?
I'm always sweating as well. How do you adjust as the sun moves?
Nice video as always thank you, I wish we could meet someday, for me as one cameraman I put behind the subject, then lower the exposure somewhere in middle to make the background and the subject looking acceptable, the final corrections I do in post production, Keep it up.
If you don't have a powered key light here, would you use a reflector? Or that would be too hard?
A reflector would work great on a day without clouds yes
It looks like a TV commercial lightning. Not necessarily a bad thing but I just immediately got the feeling he is going sell me something.
I wonder how different reflectors with different coatings would look like here. If you are shooting a doc a reflector might be easier to bring to the location than the ligh(s).
also I need tutorial hoot shoot two subject with lightning . how to set up the light for the ots n sitting on a couch like two shot .
Dude, sorry about your tripod. Check the attachment of the bowl on the spacer to avoid breakage. You put the light on well, but I would shade the body a little with a defuser on the side of the key to emphasize the face, not the bright T-shirt. PS my English shit, sorry if something is not clear.
Awesome video!
Man, I gotta get myself some framed diffusers soon.
Only thing I would’ve done differently is putting a giant neg on the grass to cut out the green reflecting light that’s coming from below the talent!