Cinematic Lighting 101: Three Point Lighting

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[damiencooper]

Do you prefer your lighting tutorials to be more "live" like this one or cleaner? (talking head + b-roll)

[markk]

Very helpful tutorial. I recently set up a shot with a lot of window light with this same approach. Set the exposure for the background / windows and then bring up the key light. I found using false color on my subject's face really help with setting the key light.

[FishplateFilms]

Very nice tutorial Damien! I have watched a lot on 3PL, but yours is the most practical and useful I have seen.
Thanks for making the video!
Cheers Gregg .

[Velghe]

This video is golden. Everything you need to know about 3-point lighting in one hands on video. Thanks man!

[MiKole]

Wow, this was REALLY good! I’m always trying to stay up to date on my filming knowledge and this channel does the trick!

[WoMedia]

Since I don't know English, I'm trying to understand the subtitles by automatically translating them to Turkish, I'm learning a lot from you, thank you bro!

[LEDs]

Thank you! I'm only lighting up virtual scenes instead of real ones with real equipment, but the same principles apply.

[ksspang]

very thorough and well-explained, awesome video

[DavidWagelmans]

Loving the direction you re going to with the videos. Awesome

[samdub]

This is a great video. Learned loads from this thanks

[wearetrackclub]

Great video! Super helpful and easy to follow 👏

[Newt]

This was so educational! I know nothing about lights, and now I feel like I can do it. Thanks!!! I was impressed by the subtle changes and live example of the light being shaped. I loved the example when you used the black cloth to remove light. I had no idea the effect could be so pronounced. I am not going to lie, when you did it, I thought to myself, come on.... how much can adding a black cloth actually do. - Then BAM, my jaw dropped. I had no idea.

[aaaallday]

"Expose for the background." Something so simple but just that change in perspective when viewing a space has really helped.

[J_HNP]

Great overview of lighting basics. For those that want to explore further, I would differentiate “Rembrandt lighting” from “loop lighting.”

When you mention you prefer Rembrandt lighting, placing the light at 45deg, it looks more like loop lighting, as the triangle of Rembrandt lighting never fully takes shape.

The way I differentiate: Rembrandt lighting means the shadow of the nose completely connects to the shadow of the nearside cheek. Loop lighting is similar, but the nose shadow doesn’t extend far enough to connect to the nearside cheek.

Thanks for your amazing content!

[thomasschumann]

Great video for people starting out. Thanks a lot!

[jamesreyes]

Love your videos man. Great explanation

[Oscariver]

great video, I would add a 1/8 or 1/4 mist filter for a broll or for an interview 👏🏻

[Dennis]

If youre working on a room woth darker walls, youd want quite a bit of bounce light as the room would absorb most of the bounced light.

[topicruben]

That was excellent, man. Thanks for all the info 👏👊🙏

[HomesickMac]

So well done Damien. I'm struggling with the hair/rim in my space. Therefore, thank you so much for showing the little lightwand, it reminded me I had a Godox tube light of the same size that I kind of tried once, but then fell for the LS120 by Intelitech (I see you're using their bigger option as well..). will test the Godox today! I have great lights to be honest, so it's a "user error" at times, but I'm also trying to livestream with 3 cameras at the same time (actually now 4, added an Osmo Pocket3 for an additional angle) when playing and teaching guitar. My lights need to take into the consideration the reflections from guitar bodies, I'm wearing glasses where I get reflections from computer screens (working on it by angling differently), I'm moving forward and sideways a lot.. I understand you when you say you love the moodier look, and my whole intention with lighting the livestream is to create exactly that moody, cozy, homey feeling to my viewers. Thank you for the new inspiration!