Extremely helpful. Have a couple of clients in mind that I have been wanting to do this with and I was able to pull some good nuggets out of this. Thanks!
This is perfect for what I was trying to do. I loved that you included the part about how to use it in a small area like a basement. I'm setting up my rig now and will definitely be using your advice! Thanks!
I went over to your website and watch the adventure film academy video.....man wow just wow. You tell great stories man. The energy is jumping out of this video to me.... That video was warming to the soul of a creator man. Keep getting out and making stuff. Thank you. Life is better when you make stuff!
What an awesome video!! I’m considering relocating my TH-cam Studio into my basement and this just added to my reasons why! Thanks buddy. Keep up the great work!!
Kino Flo with diffusion taped on is a bad choice for the key light because of the amount of spill. You don't need to place the key light so far overhead like that if you just use a soft box that has an "egg crate" to control the light spill. You can then also achieve this effect in a smaller studio space.
EXACTLY the kind of info I was looking for - thanks for sharing your expertise!! Just curious as to your thoughts about adding a 2nd club chair & setting in an "A" or "V" pattern to shoot a 2-subject interview style piece?
This was extremely helpful!! I have a creative shoot coming up and I wanted this style of lighting. I’ll try to come back and post it here so you can see how it came out :)
could you do a video on lighting a product for review on a white gloss table and a rgb light behind it and just a top light to get some epic shotS? i have a g7 with a sigma f1.8 metabones speedbooster and i cant get it to look the way im wanting it to look.... thanks
How would you get this seemless black background within a 10'x10' room with 2 neewer LED 176 lights? I'm struggling to find the right kind of diffuser. Can I just use cardboard around the lights? or cardboard painted black?
This was great. I though I had the general idea for this style, this video was great to say, yup, you got it and to point out a few tips like trash bags on reflective stuff! Good content, man.
This is great! Going to test it out in the end of January. How do you tweak it if there are two people in the interview rathe than one? Add another light above to get an even fill for both subjects?
Hi guys, was there noise in the black areas? Was it de-noised in post? I was shooting on an A7iii with iso 800 and I could see some noise in the shadows. Thanks for the video!
this looks really crunchy, I'd use a softer source and ND's instead of dialing back the ISO so you do not loose the dynamic range. The shadows in his face and the highlights look very harsh, maybe that came into play there. Just a thought.
Thank you again for great video, I'm not 100% which project you where doing and it looks like it is in church and really hope it some something helping them. It would be great to have cinematographer like you helping in this direction.
You can if you prep right. You can achieve this in a basement if you play your angles well. You just need a bright, but controlled light source. The key is to make sure light is only hitting your subject and not bouncing off any of the walls or objects in the room. Using barn doors, black foil, black fabric, anything around the perimeter of your light to help make it more of a spotty source, will really help.
+Keiando, yeah I mainly mean using the fabcric or foil to skirt the spill from the light source you are using. Like a 3-4 foot piece long about 1-2 feet wide around the perimeter of a light facing down, will prevent a good amount of spill onto the background. You can also get an egg crate fabric to put in front of soft boxes, which helps with spill as well. Just a few ideas.
Yeah i don't have a ton of space either..I recently moved and now my drums are in a 10'x10' dining room with a window right in front of my bass drum..and shit green walls lol...i've had the backdrops from jet.com set up for a little bit but can't get that infinite black background..i have to figure out how to completely black out the window 🤔 as for the settings..i don't have aperture or shutter or any of that stuff on one of my cameras (the action cam)...I have a canon g7x and a sjcam4000..so..yeah lol
Hello friend!!! thanks for the great video, i have a question: How do you deal with noisy shadows when trying to achieve this look, besides keeping your iso down? dDo you crush the blacks in post? or just expose for the high lights/mid tones?
+Dale Roossien - yeah keep iso down is the biggest thing. I do crush the blacks later, and do a mask for dropping the exposure of the shadows as well. I had a few reflections I missed in the shot that I needed to mask out.
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This is helpful for my current production.
The animations were very helpful with the explanation of the setup. Thanks for this!
Yeah, good to see the video still rolling and the explanation/title with it.
Holy. This is some next level.
Equal parts documentary, tutorial, blog.
GOALS af.
Really happy you enjoyed it. I edited this on my vacation and had tons of fun.
Extremely helpful. Have a couple of clients in mind that I have been wanting to do this with and I was able to pull some good nuggets out of this. Thanks!
Woohoo, awesome. You're gonna crush it.
You just save me from big issue I'm trying to solve for a shoot I'm coming to do next week. I love you bro.
This is perfect for what I was trying to do. I loved that you included the part about how to use it in a small area like a basement. I'm setting up my rig now and will definitely be using your advice! Thanks!
This is the exact look I had in my mind for a series I am conceptualizing! Totally stealing it :P
I went over to your website and watch the adventure film academy video.....man wow just wow. You tell great stories man. The energy is jumping out of this video to me.... That video was warming to the soul of a creator man. Keep getting out and making stuff. Thank you. Life is better when you make stuff!
This was very helpful, loved the end results, going to give it a try with a softbox boomed with a grid
What an awesome video!! I’m considering relocating my TH-cam Studio into my basement and this just added to my reasons why! Thanks buddy. Keep up the great work!!
This is just great, what a great class! Im seriously impressed, the best lighting tutorial I've ever seen by far!
Tks so so much man, most appealing lighting set up I've seen to date
Thanks for sharing your experience(s). Absolutely love your videos and your laidback style...
I think you just saved my job with this tutorial dude. Thank you.
Thanks for these tutorials, it's great to have online resources
Excellent music choice by the way. Really cool.
Super helpful!
I'm shooting some macro video of food, so I'll definitely be using some of this set up.
Kino Flo with diffusion taped on is a bad choice for the key light because of the amount of spill. You don't need to place the key light so far overhead like that if you just use a soft box that has an "egg crate" to control the light spill. You can then also achieve this effect in a smaller studio space.
So good, I've always wondered how these were shot!
Going back to watch your earlier vids and this is gold. Thx
Thank you… hopefully this can help me out by making my projecter look better when I do my interviews in front of it
I love this! It shows exactly how to do this cool shot, which can be accomplished really easily and effectively. Thank you!
I don't know how to say thanks to you, because it wasn't even enough how thankfully I am because of this video.
You’re so bright spirited I love it so much
Nice to see you back.
+Kristian , thanks man
Fantastic, I learned allot more than expected. I will be doing stills. Thanks! Mahalo from Maui
Thanks from the bottom of my heart
EXACTLY the kind of info I was looking for - thanks for sharing your expertise!! Just curious as to your thoughts about adding a 2nd club chair & setting in an "A" or "V" pattern to shoot a 2-subject interview style piece?
Awesome video! I wanted to shoot some testimonies for my church so this is so helpful
Yeah, excellent tips, thanks for bringing us along!
Great video and thanks for taking me along and teaching me a ton.
very helpful for my project this week! thank you
That looks very cool. Thank you for this video.
WOW! Thank you for this incredible video.
Totally logical. Looks great
love this look. Thanks for sharing how to do it.
This is going to come in handy for a project I have tomorrow. Thanks a lot Levi. Come to Barbados soon bro.
This was extremely helpful!! I have a creative shoot coming up and I wanted this style of lighting. I’ll try to come back and post it here so you can see how it came out :)
One of the best channel wow! I wish I found you sooner!!
Great instructions and a nice inspiration for lighting setup! I really liked it, Levi!
Good stuff I’ll be applying this technique this weekend for a testimony video. Subbed!!!
EXACTLY what I was looking for. You’ve attained a new subscriber!
Nice “I AM SECOND” look! Great job!
Dude this is great! I'm going to try to do this, but in a much smaller space.
Thorough and super useful - thanks!
thank youuu dude the picto diagrams were great
You're videos are so dope Levi. Absolutely love your style and hope the best for you with your filmmaking. Also thanks for the pro tips!
Super creative, love learning stuff like this,.
Wonderful, Levi. Thank you.
Great video Levi! Extremely helpful! Thank you and I subbed!
could you do a video on lighting a product for review on a white gloss table and a rgb light behind it and just a top light to get some epic shotS? i have a g7 with a sigma f1.8 metabones speedbooster and i cant get it to look the way im wanting it to look.... thanks
This was exactly what I was looking for! Subbed!
Fantastic tips. I definitely learned some new things!
Really awesome tips my friend ! you should do more video like this, Thank You for posting and motivating millions with your videos.
Great video!
How would you get this seemless black background within a 10'x10' room with 2 neewer LED 176 lights?
I'm struggling to find the right kind of diffuser.
Can I just use cardboard around the lights? or cardboard painted black?
BRO this is my first video iv'e seen from you and 1:10 is literary one Minute from my house, that's a crazy coincidence
also great video
This is such a huge help
This was great. I though I had the general idea for this style, this video was great to say, yup, you got it and to point out a few tips like trash bags on reflective stuff! Good content, man.
Great Video :D Thanks for these tips! Please go on with these high quality videos!
No problem. Glad you enjoyed it. It was a lot of fun to make.
Love how you presented this, got me subbed! What did you use for your writing graphics on screen, looks dope!!
@William Shakespeare 🤣🤣🤣🤣
bro this video is legit! Thanks so much :)
This is great! Going to test it out in the end of January. How do you tweak it if there are two people in the interview rathe than one? Add another light above to get an even fill for both subjects?
Cool setup.
Love this, thank you for creating this video.
You are a legend
Brilliant friend 👍🏻
Nice work. It would have been nice to detail how you boomed or suspended that kino from above.
Hi guys, was there noise in the black areas? Was it de-noised in post? I was shooting on an A7iii with iso 800 and I could see some noise in the shadows. Thanks for the video!
this looks really crunchy, I'd use a softer source and ND's instead of dialing back the ISO so you do not loose the dynamic range. The shadows in his face and the highlights look very harsh, maybe that came into play there. Just a thought.
That's definitely the look he was going for. Look up "I am second" videos.
Thanks for this Gov'nor. Very enlightening (pardon the pun). Will be back for more...
I learnt a lottt. Thank you.
Looks really good, but how do you mic for this?
Very helpful.
Dude.... Flippin' A! Awesome video ( as per usual =D )
Levin, this was an awesome video. I learned a lot thanks so much, looking forward to receiving learning emails.
Good video. Love this kind of practical BTS. Can learn a lot
Awesome video!
Great video!!!!!!
Hi there! Excellent video, excellent channel. I'd like to know the music in the video, please!
Really amazing!! Keep Going!
Amazing tutorial
Just found this but this exactly what I needed
What a helpful video! Thanks so much! :D
would love to see you remake this with the cheap amazon lights.
Definitely subscribed and definitely enjoyed your work!
Thank you again for great video, I'm not 100% which project you where doing and it looks like it is in church and really hope it some something helping them. It would be great to have cinematographer like you helping in this direction.
Great tutorial!! Thank you!
Wouldn't a fresnel attachment/light be more effective instead of the top down view which would take some grip time?
superb video! very simple!
Trying this tonight for a skit/intro for my upcoming “sitcom” 🤣
Great job!
I was hoping you'd say that you can do this without a lot of space...
You can if you prep right. You can achieve this in a basement if you play your angles well.
You just need a bright, but controlled light source.
The key is to make sure light is only hitting your subject and not bouncing off any of the walls or objects in the room. Using barn doors, black foil, black fabric, anything around the perimeter of your light to help make it more of a spotty source, will really help.
Thanks Levi, with what i have available now, it would take massive amounts of black foil, black fabric and time... but i 'll try someday!
+Keiando, yeah I mainly mean using the fabcric or foil to skirt the spill from the light source you are using. Like a 3-4 foot piece long about 1-2 feet wide around the perimeter of a light facing down, will prevent a good amount of spill onto the background. You can also get an egg crate fabric to put in front of soft boxes, which helps with spill as well. Just a few ideas.
Yeah i don't have a ton of space either..I recently moved and now my drums are in a 10'x10' dining room with a window right in front of my bass drum..and shit green walls lol...i've had the backdrops from jet.com set up for a little bit but can't get that infinite black background..i have to figure out how to completely black out the window 🤔
as for the settings..i don't have aperture or shutter or any of that stuff on one of my cameras (the action cam)...I have a canon g7x and a sjcam4000..so..yeah lol
@@Levi_Allen could i film in a basement with the lights off and light just on me
Great job man thanks.
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Keren lah bang
Very useful video , I learned lot from it, , R.manohar , india,Chennai
Thanks. Great video
Whats the music at 0:07 - 0:11
Great tutorial, thanks
Thankyou sir ❤️for this information
Hello friend!!! thanks for the great video, i have a question: How do you deal with noisy shadows when trying to achieve this look, besides keeping your iso down? dDo you crush the blacks in post? or just expose for the high lights/mid tones?
+Dale Roossien - yeah keep iso down is the biggest thing. I do crush the blacks later, and do a mask for dropping the exposure of the shadows as well. I had a few reflections I missed in the shot that I needed to mask out.
Leftcoast thanks for the quick response, I never would have though to mask and feather.
Love your vids and your passion man, keep it up!