The biggest difference between professional and amateur setups is the look of the lighting. You can light like the big boys and get great results if you know a few simple secrets. In this episode Chuck shares 5 tips for lighting faces, so you can make your subjects look great in any setting.
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Lighting and Microphones for your Video Blogging. Blunty3000 gives some back with this series of hints and tips on Video Blogging. Big thanks to the folks at Sony for throwing me a couple of bloggie cams to give away 
Part 5 of 5. This time; hints and tips on Lighting and sound with secret tricks on mics and lights Video was recorded with the Sony Bloggie, so you can get a pretty good idea about how the camera is performing naively & unaltered, and even in low light and nighttime shoots this time. The raw files (mp4) were dumped right from the camera into FCP and was edited without needing any conversion or messing about.
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Generally a good video but…you said, “As you move a light farther away the beam spreads and therefore softens.” That is wrong, it’s the other way around. The softness of light is directly related to how large it’s surface area is compared to the subject. A 4x soft box placed close to the subject will be soft. If you move that soft box far enough away it will become just as hard a light as if you weren’t using the soft box at all. In other words, it becomes a point source.
This is one of the most thorough, informative, and “NOT” boring tutorials on lighting on Youtube.
After shooting my first 2 commercial jobs, I realized just how important lighting is while I was banging my head on the computer screen during post. Like a wise man once said, “It’s better to measure 10 times and cut once than to measure once and cut 10 times”. Great job. Keep ‘em coming!!
This is one of the most thorough, informative, and “NOT” boring tutorials on lighting on Youtube.
After shooting my first 2 commercial jobs, I realized just how important lighting is while I was banging my head on the computer screen during post. Like a wise man once said, “It’s better to measure 10 times and cut once than to measure once and cut 10 times”. Great job. Keep ‘em coming!!
This is one of the most thorough, informative, and “NOT” boring tutorials on lighting on Youtube.
After shooting my first 2 commercial jobs, I realized just how important lighting is while I was banging my head on the computer screen during post. Like a wise man once said, “It’s better to measure 10 times and cut once than to measure once and cut 10 times”. Great job. Keep ‘em coming!!
This is one of the most thorough, informative, and “NOT” boring tutorials on lighting on Youtube.
After shooting my first 2 commercial jobs, I realized just how important lighting is while I was banging my head on the computer screen during post. Like a wise man once said, “It’s better to measure 10 times and cut once than to measure once and cut 10 times”. Great job. Keep ‘em coming!!
Splendid video. Fantastic advice.
I even took notes.
The best lighting video I’ve seen so far..good job Sir.
Thanks! Great vid. Very Helpful.
Thank you. Concise with great examples!
Very useful, concise and great delivery
very quick, simple, straight to the point and very informative, thats what im talking about. thank you very much! it helps a lot. we hope to see more videos like this! keep up the good work! peace!
All the equipment you see here we have at the cinemagadgets website
‘dark skin the problem’ lol
great best yet
thank you
Well made
wow that was really helpful! thx!
i dunno WHY i wacthed this…i dun even DO lighting…
great!
Thanks men!
thanks
That was SO GOD DAMNED HELPFUL! Thanx for the post!
Great! What about outdoor lighting?
Thanks for the awesome vidoes…this as become my film school the tips are great and the videos are info educational..
awesome video
Great
@FilipStumpy Use an obvious, clear, sharp sound to find the same point on both audio tracks to sync them up… this is one of the reasons why you see the “clapper board” used by professionals. the sound (and image of the clapper closing) make it easier to find the same point on multiple sources.
I often just clap my hands for this purpose, one short sharp clap.
I don’t know if you’re going to answer this, since this is an old video… but, do you have tip to how to sync excternal microphone sound with video, when you cut your videos? If you watch my introduction on my channel, I hold one, but chose not to use it, because it seemed to hard to sync.
hey Blunty, how are you doing?
If you wanna a different way to solve the mic issue you can go for the Kodak ZI8. I use that for my videos and it comes with a external mic jack and you can get really nice sound no matter how far away you are from the camera.
Cheers
theres another way to get good quality for people who dont know how to edit you can put a micraphone plugged in to an amp under the the camera pointing up towards it then just turn up the amp its a little simpler! you should test it out
you’re a good teacher!
The white balance thing was really helpful–thanks!
I responded to the previous video with this suggestion, but if you can manually adjust your white balance set it to a white piece of paper. I always keep a piece of paper in my camera bag for this reason.
Thanks Blunty, great tips!
This maybe a little out of your depth, but how would you suggest i go about getting decent sound from playing acoustic guitar and singing without going to the length of getting a professional condenser mic?
When he says Globes, is he talking about Light bulbs?
blunty how exactly did you manage to get special interviews with people like malin ackerman, like whats your day job?
please kill my curiosity an answer would be much appreciated
You know, that about the sound and wind, there is a way of taking care of that. I think I mentioned before that I tied a scarf around the mic, but that was thanks to that the cam went in where the mic was. I’m just thinking maybe you could test with scarfs or gloves in windy environments. Heh, you standing there with a glove in your hand and people go “Why’s he holding a glove?” “Because there’s a vloggycam inside.”
This is so helpful, Thank you for making this. Subscribed.
@Blunty3000 i think i’ll never touch a mic again :p
@Blunty3000 What video editing softwere would you recommend? At the moment I am using the cheap option of Windows Movie Maker but as much as I am aware it isn’t possible to put more than one image/ video on at the same time.
Thanks for the help
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Love the shirt (partial to dragons
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lol@Blunty3000
Thank you for this video series. You should do some more tips in the future they are addicting.
Beautiful day in Australia.
I always wondered what the furry thing on the mics where for.
Now I know.
@Blunty3000 lol thanks
You’re the best!
I usually don’t stay interested in videos this long but i watched this whole thing and it was quite informitive !
This is very informative, i made my first video the other day and i could use more of what you ahve given us..ty …alli
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I would love doing a vlog. I think I could do a decent job with the production, but I just don’t have anything to talk about. Haha.