Understanding Quality of Light | Cinematography Essentials

Understanding the quality of your lighting in cinematography and videography is crucial to achieve great images. In this video, we learn the different qualities of light, and some ways to achieve both hard and soft light.

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[rivanonaufal]

Bro what the heck you give us something like this for free so we can learn😭😭 May God bless you for everything you share to us🙌🏻

[eniolarufus]

Many light guys without half of the teaching skills Brady offers for free already have a 40% off on a website somewhere but this Eggcellent man keeps giving us for free back to back...you are a blessing to us, we love you Brady. Thank you so much

[danielakachi]

that transition from quality of light to cuts was nuts

[juanamedh]

Why am I seeing this in my main chronological subscription-feed?

[jefflegos]

Bread and butter for film students, honestly shocked how this is not at least a 10 million sub channel. Keep up the good work American dude!

[englishforsrilanka]

You're the man Prof Brady! Been a fan forever! I hope you can recognise me by now! Love you brother.

[rinusworldzm]

Eggcellent video bro. Eggxactly what I needed concerning lighting and the quality of it. Thank you.

[aov_james]

I like soft and hard, having balance and dynamics

[drmatthewhorkey]

This is one my favorite videos from you!

[dougfranckwolf]

Eggsaladent video! So the question I have is, if your scene is something like a dark prison cell, with only one real motivated light, the look of the scene should be harsh given the setting. Even in that situation, I would diffuse the main source of light, but on the dark side, I could have it fall off into total darkness as it fits the scene, but for options in color grading later on, should I bounce a bit of light back into the dark side just to have the ability to set the desired darkness in post ?

[maurizioarias]

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[naeemashaari]

wowww, this is eggstremely useful and quality content ! thanks Brady

[lazarkumaar]

Very good lesson from very good GURU...

[josedahoui]

Excellent video! Greetings from Spain.

[marcomeeuwsen]

Thanks for taking time to make these video's 🙏🏻 thanks for going in depth about the softness of light ✌🏻

[studiofilms]

Thank you so very much, you've been of great help to me as a beginner film maker. Please and you light a two talent scene for us to see how we work with two or more people on set ?🙏🏾

[kirankiranmishra]

Well I think that frame when your lights goes off, for a second I felt this way of lights can make us listen to you more as you was the only one who was lit when it turned off, more focus on you👌🏻hahaha. Above all, people think they need to use different light for hard light and different lights for soft light, they don’t know it’s not the lights it’s how you diffuse and what you use to diffuse. After watching they will stops searching for soft key lights on Amazon 😬👌🏻

[eddieriosyt]

I just think that it depends on motivation and emotion both qualities have their places when telling a story or based off the nature of the video.

[mdk]

The topic is interesting enough.. puns are actually distracting a bit, at least for me. But am sure many would love it. Thanks once again for a good topic.

[WhySteve]

Digging the YouTube plaque behind you. Also, what container did you export in? I noticed the artifacts at 6:39 and 8:08 and I saw in Resolve if I export MP4, my videos also do this.