advanced lighting workshop

For our lighting workshop we used the black magic camera she looked through the lighting and we use a 50mm lens which was a mid shot type lens, the normal lights that come with the building are called the house lights and before you turn it off it's a good idea to give everyone a warning just in case somebody is relying on them too see what they're doing, the house lights are the bare minimum the most basic lighting that you can give. the first light that we looked at was called a redhead light a redhead light is a little bit more powerful than you normal light and often lights can blow especially ones that are very powerful and therefore this particular light as a metal netting guard to protect anyone or anything if it were to blow. For this redhead to work most efficiently it is common to place it as close to the camera as possible and to also habit facing the subject another point to add to when you're using any type of lighting and that is too what the person who you are about to light as the lights are very bright. Sometimes red headlights can be too strong and to help soften this you can frost the light With some tracing paper. the most standard lighting technique is called 3 point lighting and this is where the subject is led from three different places the main light is called the key light the next light you would use it's called the fill light and third light is the backlight, another type of lighting technique is called the beauty lighting. To change the colour of lighting you can use things called gels or sometimes they are called philtres add these are a plasticky sheet the place over the light and it will change the colour.


A different type of light that we also use are fluorescent lights or sometimes called “florrys” these lights are not dimmable inside these tubes that are the fluorescent bulbs and we can change the colour of them by putting different gels on the inside when it comes to lighting with these specific lights we use the same 3 point lighting technique that we would normally use which includes a key light a fill light and a backlight.


The next light that we talked about is called a FOTO-FLO, It is a very warm and soft light when it is teamed up with the red headlight it gives a very pretty effect, next lights ah from a brand called PHONTON BEARD These lights are extremely cold and they're almost white.