Basic Lighting for Audiovisual Projects
Light quality: Choosing the type of lights
A course by user70753 surname70753 , Director of Photography
Joined May 2012
Learn to use light as an emotions generator in your cinematic pieces
Joined May 2012
About the video: Light quality: Choosing the type of lights
Overview
“The first thing we have to learn from light is to distinguish between hard light and soft light. Here I teach you their differences and tricks to learn to soften a hard light.”
In this video lesson user70753 surname70753 addresses the topic: Light quality: Choosing the type of lights, which is part of the Domestika online course: Basic Lighting for Audiovisual Projects. Learn to use light as an emotions generator in your cinematic pieces.
Partial transcription of the video
“To see the quality of the light, which is how hard or soft a light can become, and the first thing we are going to do is see The light that a Fresnel device gives us is a 650 watt Fresnel. It's a tiny Fresnel, they can reach up to 20,000 watts, but we, for our example, are worth it. Why is it called Fresnel? The Fresnel flame apparatus because it has a lamp what is a lamp what's called Fresnel that has concentric hoops which is what allows the light instead of spreading across the field Concentrate a little. And that It makes the device itself called Fresnel. As we can see here if we turn o...”
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Course summary for: Basic Lighting for Audiovisual Projects
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Category
Photography & Video -
Areas
Film, Video & TV, Filmmaking, Lighting Design, Photographic Lighting
A course by user70753 surname70753
Enrique Silguero is a cinematographer from Salamanca, Spain, with experience in film, television series, documentaries, music videos, short films, and commercials. In his words, his specialty is telling stories through light, shadow, color, and composition.
His work can be seen on the main Spanish television networks: Ministerio del Tiempo on TVE, Cuarto Milenio on Cuatro, el Capítulo 0 on #Cero on Movistar Plus. He has worked on music videos for La Oreja de Van Gogh, Miguel Bosé, and Malú. In advertising, his clients include Sony, Coca-Cola, Adidas, and Iberdrola.
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