Great advice! Bounced light is a great fill. Although tube lights are not “essential” they are small and easy to set up and can help with character separation. Another light I love that is small and useful is a screw in color bulb to control background lamps. Foldable negative, white, silver, and diffusion systems from companies like Westcott are super useful too!
Dude I had that same light at my old company 12 years ago and it was fantastic. Nice weight, just enough power. Besides that this was a wonderful video about mastering your craft before leveling up prematurely. I couldn’t agree more. 🔥
Thanks Austin! I interview tattoo artists and I am only using natural light and the light in the spaces where I shoot the videos. I am doing my best to keep my setup really minimal.
Hey Austin. I honestly appriciate your work and can't thank you enough for doing this! Especially your approach of avoiding gear, when ever possible! I used so many of your Tipps on my first Documentary I am filming completely on my own. So many things you share, make many processes a brise. Lightig and the correct way to use it is just another example for high value content. But there is one thing I ran into, that I couldn't quite firgure out and that I'd love your oppinion or advice on: How to set Whitebalnace for changing enviroments. In my film i often ran into the Problem of having like 5 different Lighsources with variing Kelvin Temps. My Protagonist ether looked yellow, pale or Blue. Or the room looked terrible. Especially now with shorter days and situations of filming inside with rather warm light and dim blue daylight from the outside. On dynamic shoots, when I do not know in what kind of siutation I will find my self in or if we change the location, there is simply no time to correct for WB on the fly... I cant affort a camera that shoots RAW and just gathered all my money to invest in a A7CII. I chose it because of it's versatility and to get to know the Sony workflow.. anyway... i'd be delighted if you would share your expirience on that topic.... sorry for my weired english greetings form Germany
Greetings from the US! Thanks for watching and so glad that you have been finding the videos helpful. Great question on white balance. White balancing and color temperatures can definitely be a challenge. As you develop your skills you will start to get a sense for what Kelvin to dial in your white balance for different lighting conditions. In the meantime, you have a couple options -- You could stick with a few temperatures that you toggle between that will cover you in most environments (3200k, 4300K and 5600K)... or you could take some custom white balances if you have time (using a white card or a white surface). Auto white balance also has its place in certain moments! I will put this video idea in my docket to work on in the future! Thanks again for watching
@@austinmeyerfilms Thank you for the quick response! I'm sure that expirience will help a ton. I'll try the toggle approache for sure. In my oppinion if the sikntones are kind of allright the picture looks decent enough. For shooting outside I just used 6000 Kelvin as a rule of thumb. Because "in each Direction" its just about 500K, that I might be off. I was lookung for some rule of thumb linke this for indoors, too, but i guess the difference mit be just too big. In interview situations the lights can be interchanged most of the time to accomodate for a lag of precise WB. I use The Smallrig.C60B because of their versatility and you can change the Colortemp. thank you for taking time to find an answer :)
Nice stuff. Love the simple setup. I have moved to a Intellitech RGB light matte that folds down to a 12x12" form. I have it in a wheeled backpack with seveal other lights so it is a compact kit.
the Astra is a classic! Glad to see it getting love.
Underrated! Thanks for watching
Great advice! Bounced light is a great fill. Although tube lights are not “essential” they are small and easy to set up and can help with character separation. Another light I love that is small and useful is a screw in color bulb to control background lamps. Foldable negative, white, silver, and diffusion systems from companies like Westcott are super useful too!
Agreed! Thanks for sharing your experience, Tim
Dude I had that same light at my old company 12 years ago and it was fantastic. Nice weight, just enough power. Besides that this was a wonderful video about mastering your craft before leveling up prematurely. I couldn’t agree more. 🔥
Great to hear that you also had a good experience rocking the Astra! Thanks for watching the video and sharing a comment here
Thanks Austin. Natural light for the win. Many docs just need a good understanding of natural light.
Agreed. Love me some naturally lit scenes!
Thanks Austin! I interview tattoo artists and I am only using natural light and the light in the spaces where I shoot the videos. I am doing my best to keep my setup really minimal.
Love that! I just saw that you messaged me on IG. Excited to check out your video
@@austinmeyerfilms Thank you so much Austin 🤜🔥🤛
Some of the best advice I’ve heard on RUclips. I hope more professionals who have experience pop up on RUclips
So glad that this was helpful for you!
Hey Austin. I honestly appriciate your work and can't thank you enough for doing this! Especially your approach of avoiding gear, when ever possible! I used so many of your Tipps on my first Documentary I am filming completely on my own. So many things you share, make many processes a brise.
Lightig and the correct way to use it is just another example for high value content. But there is one thing I ran into, that I couldn't quite firgure out and that I'd love your oppinion or advice on: How to set Whitebalnace for changing enviroments. In my film i often ran into the Problem of having like 5 different Lighsources with variing Kelvin Temps. My Protagonist ether looked yellow, pale or Blue. Or the room looked terrible. Especially now with shorter days and situations of filming inside with rather warm light and dim blue daylight from the outside. On dynamic shoots, when I do not know in what kind of siutation I will find my self in or if we change the location, there is simply no time to correct for WB on the fly... I cant affort a camera that shoots RAW and just gathered all my money to invest in a A7CII. I chose it because of it's versatility and to get to know the Sony workflow.. anyway... i'd be delighted if you would share your expirience on that topic.... sorry for my weired english
greetings form Germany
Greetings from the US! Thanks for watching and so glad that you have been finding the videos helpful. Great question on white balance. White balancing and color temperatures can definitely be a challenge. As you develop your skills you will start to get a sense for what Kelvin to dial in your white balance for different lighting conditions. In the meantime, you have a couple options -- You could stick with a few temperatures that you toggle between that will cover you in most environments (3200k, 4300K and 5600K)... or you could take some custom white balances if you have time (using a white card or a white surface). Auto white balance also has its place in certain moments! I will put this video idea in my docket to work on in the future! Thanks again for watching
@@austinmeyerfilms Thank you for the quick response! I'm sure that expirience will help a ton. I'll try the toggle approache for sure. In my oppinion if the sikntones are kind of allright the picture looks decent enough. For shooting outside I just used 6000 Kelvin as a rule of thumb. Because "in each Direction" its just about 500K, that I might be off. I was lookung for some rule of thumb linke this for indoors, too, but i guess the difference mit be just too big. In interview situations the lights can be interchanged most of the time to accomodate for a lag of precise WB. I use The Smallrig.C60B because of their versatility and you can change the Colortemp.
thank you for taking time to find an answer :)
Nice stuff. Love the simple setup. I have moved to a Intellitech RGB light matte that folds down to a 12x12" form. I have it in a wheeled backpack with seveal other lights so it is a compact kit.
Nice! Will have to look up that light. Hadn't heard of it. Sounds like a nice portable option for people
Thanks Austin.
You got it! Thanks for watching
Checking in 😮
I found out you know luc, that’s so cool 😮
Nice! Luc is the man
@ how did you get an interview with him, you’re the master
Success ❎ Efforts ✅
I see on the a7s3 there’s a rode mic pro + is that just for scratch audio ?
Yes, that is just for scratch audio for syncing up later in post!
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Thank you for watching!
I need lights 😢 my crop sensor and kit lens is light hungry 😢
The money may better spent on a better lens.
Nanlite Pavoslim 60c anyone ...
Looks like a cool light!