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00:00 Intro
01:06 My First Light
02:13 My Home Made Softbox
03:31 First Pro Lights (Step Back)
04:42 Fluorescent Lighting
05:24 LED Light Panel 3 Point Lighting
07:21 LED Light Storm
09:11 Lighting Modifiers
10:11 Beauty Lighting
11:03 Super Bright LED For Realism
14:54 Changing Philosophies
15:44 Dont Subscribe

[benarnoux]

Lynn is truly the G.O.A.T. for taking on the full brunt of various lights.

[MeridianMedia]

Absolutely loved the ending. You showed how you evolved from very simple lighting, to more complex setups, only to go back to very simple lighting. Except the difference is that now you are approaching the simple setup with more knowledge than before.

[drmatthewhorkey]

You are my favorite channel on lighting... I've been watching religiously for years and implement what I can. More importantly, you are practical, humble, and funny! Keep on keeping on

[WatchTakeTV]

Awesome shot of all the aperture light boxes in the background.

[De_Con]

Dude great video! The nostalgia it hurts. Also the ending hit so hard! After years of working as a gaffer with hundreds of different DPs, I always say a good DP knows how to light, a great DP has the courage to shoot with nothing.

[SirSeabass]

I'm a big fan of walking into thrift stores and finding vintage lighting. I used to find a tone of photography stuff but I find fewer pieces now. But I have bought 2 "movie lights" in the past year. They are like 60-70 years old, they are made to expose for super 8 film, but it's literally a bar of 4 edison screw bases. One that I bought had 4 halogen lamps that said "movie lights" in the center, they are 300w each. I've tried using them a couple of times, mostly for fun, but you get four shadows. I should probably pump through an 8x8 and it would look fine, but I'm not brave enough. and It gets hot. I have one set up with blue tooth speaker light bulbs right now and its more of a novelty than actually useful. Still neat though.

I also found an old smith victor A120, which they still make a version of today. I bought the plastic clip on diffusion from their website and now my wife uses it for live streams.

[hunerdpercent]

Man, it's like you're retelling my production career. The flat panels bring back memories. We filmed in a shadowy room, with blue tinted windows, with the sunlight coming through the windows. We ended up using two panels, a system with five 100w fluorescent bulbs, and one panel for a keylight... Lots of recovery in editing...

[LarimoreStudios]

Great video! You mentioned feeling embarrassed about having a "Photography Lighting Setup". For me, I started as a photographer so once Aputure came out with a bowens mount COB I was thrilled because I knew much better how to shape light with a softbox than most traditional video lights! It is crazy to see how things have shifted!

[evan]

I’ve wanted to bounce light for ages but I truly do not have the space for it! But I use the ol 120d for a key light with the 60d with spotlight for interesting backlight and an LED wand for a rim light

[BenEricson]

I gotta say, I honestly think the home depot lamp with the box diffusion maybe looks better. The light is slightly harder, but in a flattering way. It gives the subject's face more definition and shape. Not only that, since the light is harder, there is a really nice ratio without the need for negative fill because the light isn't bouncing all over the room. Surprisingly, the really simple solution is not worlds apart, just a different look.

[RobHarding]

Love the honesty. Thanks. Super interesting watching the transition. Agreed the final setup seemed overkill for most situations.

[ngonzale]

Wonderfully done! My favorite video on lighting to cap the year.

[Aviciiz]

Man, I could listen to you talk about lighting all day. Also the new cut looks great, makes you look a lot more masculine

[austinnnnnnnnnnnnn]

You look so much better with the buzzed head. Fits you really well. You went from dork to cool.

[twincitymedia]

Are you kidding me? This is step for step exactly the journey I went on! (even a short stint into hotlights). The similarities are kind of creepy

[literallykevin]

Lewis Potts is the I love it when you guys shout out the people I already sub to.

[seanoncape]

Man, thank you for sharing your journey. It was INCREDIBLY easy to relate to your beginnings, being there now myself in a lot of ways. Talking about how making decisions based on feeling like a professional-looking setup is needed to affirm you was a fantastic point. Thank you for your content!

[andyony]

Best sentence of the video:
I dont think so much about lighting any more, but about the story!! ❤️😊

So true. Lighting is a tool, when you have no good story to tell, it doesnt matter, how great a scene looks! :)

[lucuslanders]

Amazing video! I loved how honest you were. I feel like I resonate so much with your journey and I feel the excitement you have about learning new ways of doing thing. And the ending was so great! Now that I’m not a working professional anymore I cut my equipment by a factor of 10 and somehow create just as compelling images. What a good message to spread

[tylermason]

Loved this video! I lived almost every step of this process, since I've been (sort of) making films since 2012. I have a ton of fond...and maybe some not so fond...memories with all these lights. Quite a nostalgic experience!