that'll do
that'll work I footage recently challenged me to show you three simple ways to light an interview
between two people using the new anglerfish lights and because the 60D ends are battery
powered I thought what better place to do it than Outdoors at night here in Alaska even though it's
winter and it's very cold but first we need to lay a few ground rules and one is that you want
to separate your subject from the background to make them look that the best they can look
so there's a couple of different ways you can do that you can separate them by pulling them
away from the background and making sure the background is further away from them than the
camera is so you get the autofocus background the bokeh the other way do that is shoot at a
shallower depth of field so a more wide open aperture like f 2.2 to F 2.8 maybe somewhere
in there sometimes F4 depends on what kind of lens you're using and how far away from the background
they are and another way we can do that is with lighting which we'll talk about when we get to
the two lighting setup but for now with the one light we're going to set up a couple of
chairs here we don't really have to worry about the background because it's a couple of miles
over that way across the river that you can't really see because it's dark but we'll set up
couple of chairs and then we'll set up the one light with the lantern in the center
to kind of light both subjects up from the face so that we get good light on both faces
okay so in this case what we did here was the 60dn with this 50 centimeter Lantern just behind
and then hanging uh just behind both of us because you do want some shadow on the face and generally
I like it on the camera side if you look at any movie or anything like that there's always more
shadow on the camera side than the other side if you like it more just brightly lit then flip the
light around and bring it on the front side and have it be on the front side so both the front
sides are very well lit but now we're going to do two lights using two 60 DMS and the reason
I'm using the 60 VMS is they're both really easily battery powered so you can carry them around and
do things ridiculous like this outside in the winter in Alaska but it makes it really easy to
carry them around and be able to light stuff and because some of these light modifiers which are
absolutely fantastic that I footage release are smaller and lightweight too you can take them with
you wherever you go and just you know maybe on the top of a mountain to take pictures of friends at
Sunset because you know who does doesn't do that sort of stuff anyway two lights 60 DMS and we'll
set it up so that we have basically one behind each person and for this we're going to use two
60 centimeter light domes to direct the light from the light source to the people I would use two
larger domes but they're a little too big to bring out here tonight so 260 centimeter domes should
work great so this is where it does get a little more complicated and you have to play around with
where your light stands can go versus where they can't go and that's why these combination stands
or c-stands with a big boom arm are extremely handy definitely want to make sure you have
some sandbags because things get very weird and quirky and you don't want a light falling over on
anybody during an interview because it really isn't conducive to a good interview foreign
light over the each person's shoulder shining the other one so it becomes a key light for the person
sitting on the opposite side but it becomes a nice Rim light you get this really nice Edge
light on the back his shoulder of each person that helps to push them away from the background
but now we want to add our third light so we do something similar with both of these where these
will become more of a hair light or an edge light from the rear and then we're going to
use the 220dn and the 65 centimeter Lantern as our main key light here between the two sort of
like we had before but three lights is kind of my favorite because you get really really great
lighting overall pretty much on everything this is the most ridiculous thing I think I've ever done
uh we've done some pretty ridiculous that's pretty ridiculous stuff but this feels very
also the cameras are all starting to freeze up now so probably a good time to shutting down at
the same time they're all like we're done we're out I do like this though this is my favorite
so for this setup we've got one Dome just behind Keith one Dome behind me and then
the lantern sitting here between both of us but again on the back side so you get
a little bit of Shadow over the face but it's obviously compensated with each of the domes
behind us and then each camera is set up now I will do a video in the future about camera
setups and audio setups for interviews because that's a whole other subject you can use like
we're doing tonight which is ridiculous one two three cameras you use one camera
these two cameras I mean there's a lot of different ways you can set that up so we'll
cover that in a future video and we'll cover audio in a future video as well but thanks to I footage
for sending these lights out they are absolutely fantastic this isn't a review or anything they
didn't sponsor this video but if you want to see the review of these lights or you want to see
Keith and I carry one of these to the Mountaintop for a sunset in the middle of the night Alaska to
see some photos it'll be linked up in the corner somewhere here and for other ways you can approve
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how to do something ridiculous with interview lighting and cameras outside because why not