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Today on the slanted lens, we're shooting two camera interviews at East West Bank of some of the executives
We're going to look at the process of mixing an led light source with window light as we shoot these executive interviews
Because we're working with Daylight. We'll need a daylight balanced light source in the past
We always used hmis, but with the advent of leds
It's given us a lot of options
The reason that leds have become so popular is that they have become a very reasonably priced alternative to an hMI daylight balanced light source
Hmis were very expensive they have these huge
Balances you had to lug around with you the early leds were large panels of multi leds to create a light source
my favorite were the I can panels which I used for several years and have been very happy with the ease [of] use and the
way It mixes what they like
They were however hard to modify and large to move around ship when single light leds came into the market
It was a huge leap forward now you have a single light [source] in a [monoblock] head that is cool enough to attach any strobe
Softbox or modifier to today as we are on location for used Westbank?
[we'll] show you how [to] blend this single light source
Led with window light let's look at our lighting setup
Window light is a wonderful light source and gives a pretty light on the subject, but has some disadvantages
Here's our first shot with just a window light
Our camera settings are one-fiftieth and second and f 3.5
We're on a [tan] 170 to 200 millimeter lens at 175 Millimeters
I want the aperture to be almost wide open because it allows a background to fall [way] [out] of focus
so nice
Look as nice as this window light is by just adding a large [photoflex] Softbox coming in from the same side as a window light
We can clean up the light on his face and make it look a little more pleasing
We also added a light panel reflector on a camera right side just [to] open up the shadows just a little bit
So we're using the window light to light the background and to put some light on his face
But it's more of the fill light now than it is the key light
Using a Softbox to augment window light gives us three main Advantages
First I can place him wherever I want and don't need to be restricted by having to use the window to fully light his face
By keying with the Softbox I can move him around
Second it allows me to control the background. You know using a light source
I can select the best exposure for the background
and
Then I can use my light source to match his face to that exposure if I use the wind or the [lighting] space
I'll need to open up until it face is correctly lit and this campbell the background out and make it too bright in
this example we wanted to background to be darker his face doesn't have near enough light on it from the window, [so]
[as] we open up our exposure to brighten his face. It's going to brighten our background make it brighter than we wanted
Adding the led on his face allows us to get a nice light in his face and not have too bright in the background
You know the color of this North star is wonderful. It blends perfectly with this window light
This is a simulation of what the image would have to look like [if] we had opened up the exposure you know
It's nice enough
but feels kind of flat this brings us to the third advantage for using an led with window light you get to control contrast a
Simple light close to the subject will give you more contrast to make the image look better
Now having said that someone's going to ride in and say I love the low-light contrast. I love the way it looks
That's great, and that's fine
If that's your personal preference
But not having a light source makes it so you can't [have] the option to add that contrast I think the contrast looks better
So [those] are the three things [the] secondary light source can do for you when you're shooting with window light
You know in my opinion the [northstar] led is price wise and power wise the best buy out there?
It really is a great [option] to
[wrap] this up. Let's just say I love this new generation of leds. I love that single light source
[I] love the ability to modify them with soft boxes and grids and whatever I want to use with them
The Northstar light has become kind of [the] [go-to] life for us in our lighting kit
We have five of these we use them in just about everywhere we go
[I] love the fact they have a bones mount you can put whatever
Softbox or grid or any modifier you want on them my beauty dish fits on them. It's a great light source
So there's a look at combining window light with leds to do an executive interview those cameras Rollin keep on Clickin
Hi, this is Jp. Morgan today
I'm going to take a look at what I think is one of the more exciting
Lights that we've seen in the video or film industry in a long time
This is a single bulb, led it's a 100 watt light. It's called the Northstar light
It really is a very compact housing cool in the front disperses the [heat] in the back
But what is nice about this design is it's a single housing with the led up front it gives you the complete ability to modify
this light it works with the bowens mount
So you can stick a light on the front
flip the switch in the back
Now it takes several seconds for this to come on the reason that is is because if they didn't do that
You'd have [to] have this huge ballast out here as part of this light which just makes it really cumbersome and hard to use
So that several second delay is way worth what you gain in just the portability and small ease of use of this light
This light is fabulous color balance wise it is spot-on to daylight on the back of this thing?
It's just simple turn me on turn me off dimmer good to go. [I] love it when it's simple. [I] love it
You can put a grid [on] it in the [7] inch reflector
Just going to blow everybody up
But you can put a Softbox on a ring, which is how we use it the other day
again, we have the single led up front modifiable in the front they have also an adapter that has barn doors on it if you
Want to use more gels that kind of traditional way of working with a light like this
it's a hundred watt, Led which gives you equivalently about
About a 1k or maybe slightly under 1k, but it's very similar to a 1k I found with this silver reflector, though
It bumped it up by two stops if you're about to buy leds you seriously need to take a look at the North Star light
Because the large panels that are out there, and there are some great ones out there
I use a lot of them
But the reality is that this now becomes a single light [source] that acts more like an hMI?
It's daylight, balanced it has the ability to work just like an hMI without the huge
Ballast without the huge expense let's bend JP barn for the sign lands. That's my product review
I love this light today on the slanted lens giveaway. We have a North star light by photoflex
This is an incredible light of course this entire lesson
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