- Hey, everyone, welcome to "Moving Matt".
We do vlogs, travel and some camera stuff.
And today I'm gonna be going over lighting
and showing you how to create a basic three-point lighting
setup and how to tweak it just
a bit to give it a more cinematic tone.
So let's get into it.
So ironically, when I talk about lighting
it's probably gonna be the worst lighting
in this entire video.
I usually do not have a mixed lighting.
I do not have different colors
and I do not have the top lights on.
I usually just work with my three-point lighting system.
A lot of this part, I actually wanted to re-film
because it looks terrible and the sliding.
But I thought it would be a great lesson to see
just how important lighting is.
So just notice how much throughout this video
when I move around,
how the quality of the light changes the quality
of the image.
Sometimes before spending a whole lot of money
upgrading your camera,
maybe spend a little less money, upgrading your lights.
And so, this is a basic three-point lighting setup.
Right here, this is my chair that I'm usually sitting on
and I have my key light.
Now your key light is obviously the most important
hence the word key.
And that is gonna be the main light that you have
on your face.
And, I actually use this three-point lighting setup
a little bit differently to get different effects
but I'll talk about that in just a minute.
But you have your key light, which is gonna be the light
that's gonna be closest to you.
Usually it's your best light.
And then you have your fill light
which is my light right here.
It's not quite as expensive of a light.
So, I use it back here as my fill light
because you're just adding a little bit of extra lighting
to your scene or your face or whatever your subject is.
So, then we have back here is called your backlight.
Now for me, I use an RGB light from aperture
and I change it to orange and the reason I do that,
it kind of gives you a little bit, I don't know
if you can tell in this shot.
But it'll give you almost like a rim light here.
And that's your backlight.
So what that is doing is it's allowing you to separate
yourself or the subject or whoever shooting
from the back ground.
And so, I actually use a couple other lights as well
on the background itself
because it isolates me out from the background.
So now you have a light on the background
and you have the three-point lighting system
showing me right here.
So I'm isolated further out.
So the reason I use orange and a little bit of till blue
is because if you've heard anything about color contrast
those are opposite on the color wheel.
And it just adds a little bit of color contrast
along with the contrast of your regular lighting.
So that is the basic lighting setup
but there's a little bit more to it.
There's a lot of different types of emotion that you can
create with your lights and get different looks.
So for example, if I hold the light right here
it kind of puts a dramatic or almost type
of scary look to it.
And like, for example, you think about a campfire,
somebody is holding a flashlight underneath their eyes.
Usually if it's darker, let me see if I can put
myself over here.
Usually it's darker and then that way it'll kind of give you
more of a suspenseful look.
Now, if you were to put it up here,
I'm pretty well lit,
but usually it would also kind of give a different,
more creepy style look.
They use this lighting a lot in the "Godfather"
where you couldn't see their eyes at all
kind of to give them almost a lifeless look
and not a natural look at all.
Now, if I back up a little bit and I get a little darker
and if I put the light right here to my side
trying to create the effect with a small light
so it might be pretty difficult.
But if I put the light right here to the side,
let's see if I can get it right here.
You'll get a slight shadow right here.
And that's called Rembrandt lighting.
And the reason they call it that
is because of the painter he was known for painting.
And he'll always have a little bit of a shadow right here.
And that's how I like to use my lighting
is kind of more of a Rembrandt style.
I put the light a little bit on the side of my face
and when a cast slight shadow over here.
And I only turn up my fill light just a little bit
because I just wanna add a little bit of light
but I want to keep that shadow.
Well, there you go, that is my setup
but I am always open to learning some more.
So if you have any lighting tips of your own,
drop them in the comments section below
for myself and others.
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And until next time, peace.