Announcing all new cinematic lighting lessons, which visually guide you through lighting tools and techniques practiced on professional movie sets around the world.
Emmy-winning cinematographer Jason Tomaric partnered with LEDGO, Arri, and Kino-Flo to produce an intensive, on-set series that demonstrates key lighting tools in visually-engaging video tutorials.
Learn how to use LED, HMI, and Tungsten lights, plus advanced techniques for shaping, reducing, softening, and crafting light for a sophisticated, professional look on screen. Learn how to craft color temperature, techniques for lighting the human face, how to use professional gear to create the desired look, and much more.
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The New Lessons
Lesson 1
Techniques to Reduce Light
The all-new video tutorial methodically guides you through the tools and techniques used to reduce light on your subject. This lesson covers:
- Working with wire scrims
- Working with dimmers
- Remotable Wi-Fi dimming options
- Solids, cutters, and floppies
- Creating negative fill
- Lensers and Courtesies
- Protecting fabric scrims
- Scrim and C-stand rigging safety
- Neutral Density gel on windows
Lesson 2
How to Create Soft Light
In this in-depth tutorial, learn how to create soft light using a variety of techniques:
- How to control the size of a light source
- Using Fresnels to craft the spread of light
- Controlling wraparound
- Working with diffusion on barn doors
- Working with soft boxes and Chimeras
- Skinning 4x4s
- Working with 6×6 overheads
- How to control spill from soft light sources
- Real world demo
Lesson 3
Techniques to Shape Light
Creating light is easy – the art of lighting is in how the light is shaped. In this lesson, you will experience industry-standard techniques to shape light to create the desired look.
- The power of shadows
- Creating internal vs external shadows
- Benefits and drawbacks of bard doors
- Working with black wrap
- Egg crates and louvres
- Flags and solids
- Creating gobos
- Working with a cucoloris and brancholoris
- Building duvatyne skirts
Lesson 4
Working with Reflected and Bounced Light
While the previous lessons teach direct lighting techniques, this lesson reveals techniques on how to work with bounced and reflected light.
- Factoring in the Inverse Square Law
- Foam core and bead board
- Collapsable reflectors
- Shiny boards
- Physics of reflected light
- Bouncing light off ceiling
- Working with overheads
- Shaping hair lights
- Working with mirrors
Lesson 5
Color Temperatures and White Balance
The all-new video tutorial introduces color theory, how color is rendered on screen, and how common light sources appear on screen. This lesson covers:
- Defining how a camera sees white
- The Kelvin scale – origins and how it’s used
- How the imaging sensor sees color
- Measuring light sources with a spectrometer
- White balancing techniques
- How to cheat white balance
Lesson 6
Working with Mixed Light
From gelling lights to working with variable-color temperature LEDs, learn how to color balance lights on set to achieve the desired look. This lesson covers:
- How to use gels to color correct light sources
- Light loss calculations through gels
- Working with LEDs
- Working with sunlight
- How to gel windows
Lesson 7
How to Light and Shoot Green Screen
The all-new video tutorial methodically guides you through the process of lighting, exposing, and recording green screen footage. This lesson covers:
- When to choose green or blue
- Differences between chromakey and digital blue/green
- Shooting in a studio vs on location
- How to light green screen (space lights, cyc lights, LED, Kino-Flo, book lights)
- How the bit depth and compression affect a key
- Capturing in LOG vs REC709
- How to expose actors
- How to reduce spill and create a cleaner key
How to get these Lessons
These new lessons are included in the following FilmSkills courses
Cinematic Lighting Master Course
Make your videos more cinematic and attract bigger clients. In the FilmSkills Cinematic Lighting Master Course, Emmy-winning cinematographer teaches you how to get the most out of your gear, professional Hollywood lighting techniques, and real-world demos to help you light common scenes.
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