Spot Hard Light and Light- Make Your Project To Be Prefect

Through spots or soft lights can be used to create theatrical or natural lighting styles, they're often most effective when employed together.

Whether you are lighting a video with ten kilobucks worth of hi-tech hardware or making do with available light, you have two basic ways to go with each light source: hard or soft - either a high-powered beam with clean edges or else a softer glow that falls off gradually. Our THE-ONE professional stage lighting , can provide both spot and soft light for you accordingly to different requirement.

Here let me tell you when and why to use each type of them.

The cliche has it that you use soft-edge lighting for a realistic and natural effect, and that's partly true: softer, more general light can resemble a fluorescent office ceiling or a large off-camera window. But if you study a talking head on any of a zillion TV interviews, you'll realize that the soft, glowing light on the subject doesn't look like a ceiling or a window. It looks like video lighting.

The most realistic lighting is often a cunning combination of small, hard spots and big, soft floods.

If you key with a spotlight and fill with a soft light, your subject will throw only one shadow on the background, which looks very natural. I like to soften the key a tad with clipped-on spun glass diffusion material. To keep the fill from looking too interviewee, try placing the large source well around to the side, to avoid a wraparound effect and create the impression of ambient room light.

When you want a little more pizzaz, try using soft lights for both key and fill, moving the fill unit back until the subject's face is detectably (but not excessively) brighter on the key side. A small spot placed high and behind the subject can provide hair and shoulder rim light for separation from the background.

Here are two quick tips to finish up. First, try using a dimmer to control the back light's intensity. The slight warming of the dimmed light can create a nice effect. Second, use a very lightweight spot mounted on a horizontal arm supported by a stand off to one side. That way, you can place the backlight behind the subject without getting its stand in the frame. Good shooting!

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