Top 10 Lighting Mistakes Beginners Make

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00:00 Intro
00:36 Introducing "Lighting Mastery"
1:05 1 - Overexposed Background
2:01 2 - Flat Image
3:32 3 - Incorrect Mood
5:10 4 - Overusing Hard Light
7:16 5 - Not Enough Light
8:42 6 - Not Lighting Spaces
9:52 7 - No Background Separation
10:54 8 - Overexposed Skin Tones
12:52 9 - Wrong Color Temperature
14:26 10 - No Color Contrast
15:25 Final Thoughts
15:45 What's Inside "Lighting Mastery"?

[BradyBessette]

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[thidnascimento]

That's a GREAT video. Has to stop at 1:37 because just that "expose for what you cannot control" thing alone its worth the comment, so important! brilliant!

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[hematitepin]

I am a total beginner to lighting, and this's been super helpful. Thank you!

[reetbhowmik]

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[fitzgeraldfilmsMN]

I didn’t learn shit in film school back in 2012-2015. I learned more about light in this 20 min video.

[ijob]

Thank your for this great Video!

1. Overexposes Background
2. Flat Image
3. Incorrect mood
4. Overusing Hard Light
5. Not enough Light
6. Not lighting spaces
7. No Background Separation
8. Overexposed skin tones
9. Wrong color temperature
10 No color Contrast

[zebrazone]

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[xxphactor]

I would also like to add that when creating depth, keep your subject off the wall and maybe use the long end of the lens to help with creating a shallow depth of field. And if you are in a small room, try to shoot catacorner if you can. The longest distance in any room is corner to corner. When you film in a lot of small doctor offices, you learn a few tricks...lol

[LeoMkII]

I bought a camera just to discover that I'd actually need to spend more on lights than in the camera and glass lmao

[connorgmcc]

Honestly the most informative lighting video I have found on YouTube 🙏 Thank you

[alex_lionspaw]

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[olivermarshall]

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[Plotnikovfoto]

When I started filming, there were no cheap Chinese LED flashlights; I used construction halogen lamps on stands and white diffusers and umbrellas. These lights are cheap, about $5 for 500 watts, but they get very hot. And the room just gets hot. It was difficult to work with them, but I understand that it was a very good lesson.

[chipcurry]

Very nicely done as usual, incredible color demonstration of each topic. I don’t make those mistakes. I make other mistakes – my most recent was skipping the Phil light in an interview, sticking with just two lights. This illustrates a point: many times due to budget or time, I don’t get the perfect lighting and say that’s good enough. This gets pretty so philosophical. Will save it for another video… Great job guys!

[BradenYoungVideo]

I’ve been really looking forward to all your new videos Parker

[MikeEdwardsphotography]

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[jrlingerfelt]

IRE and Kelvin notes were awesome. I've been watching videos a lot for this type of advice and have never seen it. Thank you!

[flipnap]

9:50 curious as to the "half apple missing" ha ha. im like "were they trying to cover up the logo in post and it slipped?". Great vid. lighting is so wonderful and amazing. was in charge of lighting a few CG projects and I went down the rabbit hole of how light behaves. Studying how global illumination, ambient occlusion and how ray marching works. light is the magic. I do a lot of audio engineering and its a common issue where people will keep turning up different bands of the eq, instead of subtractive carving of problematic frequencies.. just adding and adding and you end up with a noise loud piece of music with no balance. Glad to see the first part of this video talk about exposing for room first. good stuff. have a good one