Category: Lighting
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The Three States Of Photographic Light
These are: too much, not enough, and what the client thinks looks good. The sign of a professional is how they get the images done without touching any of these marks. If they can do it unobtrusively and without hitting someone with a camping axe, they are considered industry icons. Most places that are intended…
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Conquering The Light Daemons
First, you must lure them closer. Then you strike. I regularly take pictures at a dance show that is held in a light dungeon. There is enough of it to see by, but it is every colour temperature imaginable. No wonder – the lights are LED, halogen, tungsten, and candles. I have not found any…
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There Is Something To Be Said For Simplicity
And it is generally…EVERYTHING… If you can achieve your goal with one camera and one light, do so. If that light is provided by the sun or moon, you need not buy it or pay for electricity. If you need more – main, fill, hair, backdrop, front effect, etc. You are going to to pay…
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The Cans Vs The Panels
Well, I had my suspicions confirmed the other day when a client picked up a job. We discussed more video work at her dance studio and she mentioned that the stage lighting there – professionally done and all – was modern LED panels. You know the round ones with the circuits that allow for either…
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When There Is No White To Balance…
Flying by the seat of my pants. I sometimes video a stage show held in a pro theatre where there is a full armoury of lights and gels. The projected backdrops will also feature innumerable colours – my attempt to take a custom white balance during the dress rehearsal depends whether there is one and…
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You Can Only Tell Your Own Story
I’ll amend that – you can only tell your own story – with authenticity. Telling someone else’s is just theatre and you become an actor, rather than a historian. This is a problem for some people; they mistakenly think that they do not have good enough stories to tell. Most people are not celebrities, VC…
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Conquering The Light Daemons
First, you must lure them closer. Then you strike. I regularly take pictures at a dance show that is held in a light dungeon. There is enough of it to see by, but it is every colour temperature imaginable. No wonder – the lights are LED, halogen, tungsten, and candles. It have not found any…
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When There Is No White To Balance…
Flying by the seat of my pants here. I’ll be filming a stage show held in a pro theatre where there is a full armoury of lights and gels. The projected backdrops also feature innumerable colours – my attempt to take a custom white balance during the dress rehearsal was stymied by no white light…
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Q & A
I tried some experimental video in my Little Studio recently. Part of the work was to see if a friend’s Nikon Z6 camera could make decent small video spots. He’d had little success with the new camera when he tried to adapt older Nikon and Sigma lenses to it due to the mis-matching of the…
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Isaac Newton Vs Photography
Say what? Newton was a scientist long before photography was invented. What could he have to do with it? Well, set aside his laws of motion and all the rest of the physics he investigated. And forget about the apple and gravity. If you want apples go to one of the big shops and ask…