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Can I say something? This is probably the best lighting short bible online. For no beginners like me, it is also a great refresh with some nice extra tips! THANKS!
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Completely agree!!! If the rest of the course is taught this way I’ll be a happy camper.
Much appreciated wisdom!
Here are some timestamps:
2:49 Shoot shadowside
4:47 Lighting direction
6:02 Depth
7:46 Motivated lighting
9:54 Background lighting
11:10 Time of day
12:20 Catch light/Eye light
13:40 Texture
15:05 Example: Cello player
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1. shoot on the shadow side (move the camera to the other side of the light)
2. 45* angle of lighting (create the upside down triangle) "rembrandt lighting"
3. separation (warm orange light on subjects face, and blue complimentary light in the background) (or darker background)
4. motivated lighting (has to COME from somewhere) (audience knows source of light is coming from somewhere natural)
5. background lighting
6. time of day - 6 am, 6 pm, never film 12 pm (put sun behind the subject, and shoot into the sun)
7. catch light/eye light
8. fog/haze machine
15:13 put together
thank you! saved me so much time
This tutorial has been the best I've seen so far. Concise, direct to the point, and the activity at the end tied up everything that was discussed.
My wife was pretty surprised when I suggested we go shopping for lamps haha
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I have this sudden need for some lamps too
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I have one thing to say about the motivated light. Yes, usually is better to make a shot where you show why a light is being used, but it's not always like it. A perfect example is the hateful eight, almost none of the indoor shots has justified light, but you don't even notice it because it's done incredibly well. So, always know the rules but then break them to create something unique and beautiful
I just stumbled on this while searching for photoshop lighting techniques, and now you've made me interested in filmmaking. This was super interesting and fun to watch. Thanks for the video!
I was going to make a lighting tutorial for fun and to pass on what I've learnt over the years but then I found this one and thought "there's no point now!"! This is extremely well made, superbly explained and fun to watch. Well done, 10/10.😀
This was one of the most informative and well narrated "How-to" videos I have ever come across on TH-cam. This gentleman really practices what he preaches. If I didn't already have an Associte's degree in filmmaking and halfway done with getting my Bachelor's, I would definitely purchase his course(s). Well done!
Thank you. I’m not a filmmaker, but this is honestly amazing tutorial for any kind of visual art that involves lighting. Extremely inspiring.
I'm looking at going in to lighting as a career and I have to say that just with using the first tip of shooting shadow side my render shot off the screen and was instantly much more interesting. It's fascinating how that one tip made such a difference. Thanks!!
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I've never seen such an informative and comprehensive yet also compact tutorial in my life. I can't thank you enough.
This is fantastic. I learned more about lighting in these 18 minutes than in all of the studies I’ve done so far. Thanks guys, I’m making a student film next week and will be using all of these tips.
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Wow, this was extremely tremendously well made and helpful - I appreciate all the effort you put into this. It helped me make better sense of the subject of lighting. Well done.
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This by far the best crash course in lighting I have ever seen, thank you Justus for making it.
This is one of the most informative videos I've watched on lighting; no filler tips and all super useful! Thank you for sharing :)
By far the BEST lighting tutorial video I've even watched. Straight to the point and very well structured. Can be used for quick reference as well. Thank you so much!
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One of the best videos I've ever seen! I've always wanted to learn more about lighting and my way of learning would always get too overwhelming. I love the story and the end summary!👏 Thank you! I want the same video in which lighting system to get for both indoor and outdoor🙏
I just shot a short film as the DOP and well basically no budget and I am a beginner filmmaker. Lighting gave me the hibbi jibbies. But this video just gave me so much confidence that even with my cheap lights I will be able to nail images going forward. Thank you for this ❤❤
Honestly the most overlooked department is sounds and music, definitely not the lighting dept.
Agreed. Seems of the major elements in amateur films, it would be Sound > Production Design > Lighting > Camera from most to least overlooked.
I just made my first musical film which is basically 3 mnts long.
And yeah I can definitely say i shouldve given more thoughts to lighting. Just because of lighting alone many scenes of mine are blown out completely.
That seems silly to me. Lighting is filmmaking sound and music you can get from stock. I don’t disagree audios important but it’s as important as good lighting.
If you can make a photograph cinematic through just lighting, then lighting is most definitely massively important
@@sora5146bad lighting makes a bad movie, bad sound makes an unwatchable movie. Even if you use stock music you need to carefully edit that in
17:30 but it looks really silly having a lamp on when the sun is shining so bright it's rays coming still through the closed blinds
Yeah I feel like now that there is that light from the back the lamp can be removed
Possible solution: Blue gel in front of the outside light and a little less output to simulate moon light. That justifies the lamp and also the fire place imo
It looks like a fucking nuclear bomb went off outside! lol
Some things that stood out to me. Would it make more sense for the key light and the lamp be more similar in color temp. I think having this 5000k+ key light with a ~3000k lamp feels just a bit too different. Also, isn't faking sunlight really difficult, as sun light always produces parallel shadows but lamps wont.
Also I’m sorry but the fog is so distracting. It looks like there is a fire in that house. If lighting needs to be motivated than certainly fog needs to be as well. I agree with the video that fog looks good in certain situations but it can’t be used for everything.
Hands down...this has to be one of the most helpful tutorials EVER...like, of all tutorials out there. Amazing!!! Thanks you so much for sharing this!!!
That lighting example of the cello player towards the end of the video brought everything together! Show don't just tell! An excellent tutorial... thank you!
BEFORE A COUPLE OF MONTH I JUST LOOKING FOR A CINEMATIC LIGHTS BUT AFTER WATCH YOUR VIDEO ITS COMPLETELY CHANGES MY EXPERIENCE ABOUT LIGHTING SENSE THANK YOU SO MUCH
Great video! As someone who spent a lot of time on sets it's really nice to see someone pack these info in 1 video, especially I like that you mentioned the fog...this is really an overlooked thing. You don't often see this. Keep it up!
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I felt like I'm enlighted by something vivid an vibrant. Man this is the best online tutorial on cinematic lighting. Thank you very much sir.
Sir you proved that,"Experience makes man Perfect."
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This is lighting gold. Very succinct and well demonstrated. What a tutorial!
This is one of the best tutorials so far, Its pleasent to listen to not too long but cover everything you need to know!
That light in the eye was an eye-opener. 😲
I'm amazed by the before and after shots...
Learning the essentials of filmmaking and cinematic lighting can really change the way your channel/film looks. Great insights!
This video was AMAZING. I've always struggled with lighting but I'm getting much better and this video man, wow. I just did a scene based on these principles (and I shoot with my smartphonne so light is even more important) and the way that it came out. wow. How could I ever go back. I've definitely bookmarked this video. Thanks so much!!!
Hands down this is the best video I have ever watched about cinematic lighting!!
This is one of the best videos about lighting techniques I've ever seen. Thank you ✨
that last example....combining all the methods was just a perfect way to make people learn!
This is utter pricelessness. Thanks monstrously much for this helpful few minutes of solid gold insights. 💛🙏🏼
This is the most comprehensive, shortest, best and easiest tutorial on lighting. Thank you!
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I learned so much in 15 minutes than I have ever learned watching other videos, this is impressive! Thanks! I’ll have to rewatch this video and take more notes for sure
AMAZING VIDEO!!!! Just 6 mins in and I've learnt actual practical steps and explanations for better lighting after years of hearing and using airey concepts and steps that just never fully made sense. Thank you and keep up the great work.
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This is ridiculously good. This could help end bad looking shorts and interviews. So clearly explained too.
This is probably the best cinematic cheat sheet I've ever seen. I don't think I've ever heard shooting shadowside recommended before but it totally works and makes a big difference!
I don't get that excited about videos like this that often, I watch a lot of stuff like this from filmmakers, but this video was just FAR superior to any lighting vidoe I've seen before. THANK YOU!
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Absolutely amazing! I will watch this over to gather that all again but all the tips make sense and I can't wait to practice them 😀 that last scene is a game changer 🙌
Dude this was so helpful - I can't wait to put these into practice when I get out there and start learning
Thank you so much ! I’ve learnt a lot of things about lighting in this video, it is very useful for a cinematographer student like me !
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Nice video, great explanation of principles and examples of applications! If I may be critical there are 2 things bothering me quite a bit about the example at the end.
1) the simulated light on the back of the person is brighter than the fireplace itself and that's even without considering the inverse square law of light.
2) as soon as you cast ambient light into a scene through a window then that's overwhelmingly brighter than a fireplace light source.
In the end the result looks interesting because of many things going on, I guess because you'd like to bring it all together, but as you mention during your video that some lighting choices can make things look unnatural, then I'd tend to say that this final example is quite unbalanced and unnatural to be honest.
I agree %100. I was wondering if anyone was gonna mention this in the comments. Well worded as well. On another note the video is great and informative
I wasn’t a fan of the window light either it felt a bit overwhelming imo
Same here, additionally, the motivated light and the key light were different temperatures!
Also the obvious square light on the right side of the cello
For me the example went from a really nice focus on the musician in a very nice dark moody setting, to a very bright room with to much happening. I see what they did and like the tips, but for me the mood went in a wrong direction. I really liked just seing the silhouette of the musician
This is so relevant even for photographers, thanks!
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So much useful information was contained in such a short video. Thank you
That was an amazingly inspirational video! I love being creative in many things (I'm primarily a musician) and I want to start making more professional quality videos for my music as well as short films & animation.
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This video was truly fantastic and helped my understanding so much!
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Hell yeah! I'm at exactly the same place.. In the last few years especially I've been much more humble and studious in my approach. I never feel I shouldn't go back to the basics and look at what practice I could use, but having a wide knowledge and base of understanding with practice makes these videos and courses give me so much creative inspiration, in what rules to use for scenes and, rules to break on purpose. The same with musical theory and different styles of animation. Good luck on your journey into creating your own world!
Lighting is one of my biggest difficulties, I never know how to place them properly or how to make sunlight good, but this video was excellent and will help me a lot.
Amazing, frankly unbelievable resource, thank you, i keep on working on shots and feeling like its just luck which looked good and which didnt, but with this ive looked over and seen again and again where i did and didnt follow this, thank you
Step #9. Use soft lightning, especially on a closeups to create a pleasing rap into a shadow.
Step #10. Use negative fill to cut all unnecessary light / bring more shadows. Cut lightning sometimes is more important than bring light.
Step #11. Control the output! Light must not been too dim or (especially!) TOO SOURCY, cause it's feel unnatural.
Step #12. Colour temperature and character of motivated light must be same as source of motivated light.
Step #13. Everything must look natural. If it's not, change your lightning. Do not bring any unnecessary light, try to use bounce over a new one source. Use as many light as necessary for scene, and no more.
Step #14. Please do not create big hot spots in practicals/windows/reflections, where information completely lost. Avoid any clipping. This looks cheap. Control levels of all lights. Led all the scene leaning on a brightest part of the image that you cannot control. In most of case it must be just below the clip area.
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Thanks for the tips !
I personally felt that there was too much lighting in the last scene... and that shifted the focus of the scene elsewhere...i think adding too much lighting to a scene for the sake of an aesthetic appearance sometimes builds tensions in the scene.
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Great video! Learned a lot actually, it def reinforced certain rules I need to remember. The only thing I’ll say I somewhat disagree on is shooting with complimentary colors. Roger Deakin’s said he was taught in film school to use complimentary colors - but he finds that advice is well overused and makes your footage looks “common”. This is why he uses very odd color combos, like in blade runner; then he finds a way to have practical lights influence those colorful decisions. Now there’s depth and uniqueness!
Thank you so much for sharing!! This is súper useful! I studied filmmaking but I learned a lot more about lighting in this 18 minutes
I’ve watched so many videos and tutorials….. this is probably the very best info and tutorial I’ve seen with lots of examples.
I don't think that motivating the light is so important nowadays as it used to be in the past. Making things look good is more important than making the light look realistic, but I'd say it comes down to personal preference and overall style of the production. All in all this is one good video. Subscribed.
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Re-lighting that last scene was the most perfect round-up.
That cheek triangle just absolutely blew my mind!
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Thank you! But regarding that last step, I as a viewer would be questioning where that smoke and fog is coming from, especially indoors.
I just finished up on a well-known TV series, and literally 100% of the interior scenes (and many exterior) employ "atmosphere" (and many scenes are on a spaceship, where there is no fog or smoke). Use a light touch when applying it and it will give a cinematic look without looking like fog or smoke that you have to justify. Just my 2¢.
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Awesome informative video, saving it for reference :)
One thing, though, that I dislike more and more in movies are the catch lights / eye lights, as they usually stand way against the motivated lighting rule, which you mention, as in many cases those highlights shown in the eyes are coming from actually nowhere in a scene (thinking of reality). Being aware (more or less) of how the movie set is lit and what you see reflected in the eyes in reality, it makes you think of how artificial it is in movies ;P
So there are two options - you either watch drama movies and try not to think of those strange lights from nowhere, getting reflected in the actors' eyes or you watch action movies and ignore bended physics LoL
12:58 this actually does happen in real life.
When someone dies, they (hopefully) stop blinking to replenish the moist coating over the surface of the eye. So especially in the strong wind at the top of the Empire State Building, the moist surface will evaporate quickly, leaving the dry eye less reflective.
You can also see eyes loose their reflections more completely when open underwater, because there's no surface edge of the wetness on the eye. It's all merged into a continuous volume of water.
Watch Vesper's underwater death scene in Casino Royale. I felt it really added to the lifeless look in her eyes. Unfamiliar and haunting.
Conversely, eyes sparkle more when an actor is teary-eyed.
Could be enhanced with more little eye lights below camera.
This is actually one of the best lighting videos I watched
dude, really good stuff. thank you! I been in the industry for 20 years and this is really straightforward and I love the outdoor fogger tip. I never woulda thought to use that.