Hmm it needs more fill there's way too much contrast. That ain't the way we do things in Texas. I hate fill
We're gonna lose all the detail on her face
Good
Hold on you two both might be right. Yeah. Yeah, okay, it really depends on the look you're trying to create okay?
Are you lighting a CEO? or
a fashion icon? A climate change activist. An oil tycoon. A yoga instructor. A bear trapper
Okay, yes, yes, so let's start with the basics
Okay
Studio interview lighting you can apply most of these tips to a room in your house or in your office if you have the space
But what's nice about a studio is you have a hundred percent control over the environment
What is control really?
Okay, so let's start with the subject
Now let's add some lights
Key light our main source for the interview
Fill light which will affect how dramatic your lighting style is and the hair light
Which separates the talent from the background
Now let's see how each light can be adjusted to create different styles. Ruth here really likes high contrast.
Like it? I goddamn love it
And Link here, his trademark is soft beauty type lighting. I'd take a lot of that to make old Ruth here look pretty
Am I getting paid by the hour? Okay, so we created a basic three-point light setup, but it's very generic right? It's a little flat
So let's see what our DPs can do to shape the light
Ain't no pierce brosnan, but he'll do
All right, let's talk Turkey now look at all that spill. Light is going everywhere
Let's lose the fill light. Next what I'm doing there is putting some what we call negative fill in that
There's a solid black gives a nice shadow on the side of the face
I call that manly chisel. And who needs a hair light, looks artificial
Gone. That's looking pretty good, pretty good
It's very nice. I see you got a really nice dramatic effect of that in that solid and pumping up the key light cool
So what do you think link?
Okay, well you know what's wrong with that soft key light. It's not soft enough. I don't like this subject, so I'm bringing my own
So what I did was add a 4x4 frame with some diffusion in front of the light to make a bigger source
Bigger is better right? Ruth?
Now the solid has to go we're just losing too many details. I want a nice soft light so my clients look their best
Then I'm going to bring the fill light back in but I'm going to dim it down so it's not too flat
and
last I'm bringing the hair light back
To add that nice separation and glow
There now that's an interview worth shooting
Well-done link I like how you created that stylized beauty look with that 4x4 frame
And that's softer fill light, so should we compare our results?
So we have our original three-point interview lighting setup
It's a bit flat, and there's not much shape to it
But then Ruth created a very high contrast lighting setup with deep shadows. Link went with a softer more flattering look
Both looks have their place and there are many variations in between the important thing is to know your subject and to create a look
That works for them. Okay, so go out experiment get crazy
Well I don't hate yours
Yours ain't crap neither
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