Ben Griffin

Put your CITY in your profile. United States is pretty big :)

Okay done.

Looks pretty good. Easiest method would be to pull the talent further away from the background to limit the amount of spill. Use more light so you can use a lower ISO or stop down, this will eliminate more of the ambient spill.

 

The best way to completely eliminate spill is to set flags between the lights and the background, but that requires 2 more c-stands and preferable a few 4x4 floppies.

Hi thanks for the info. Can you tell me where I can find these flags? I tried to do a google search but didn't come back with anything. Can you maybe provide a link?

Okay I played with the lighting a bit (as well as adjusted the white balance). Everything I tried to do spilled onto the black background, but after lowering the ISO and moving the light around I think I got it. I would like more hairlight still but if I turn up the scratch light or adjust the key light any, it ruins the black background. Your feedback please.

Okay I played with it a little bit and this is what I came up with. Please let me know if the white balance looks better.

'Raw' means uncompressed. It sounds like you're not using it so the question is academic.

Put a Kodak grey or white card in the shot and take a custom white balance setting off that.

Would a piece of white computer paper work?

That is very odd. Can you upload a camera raw somewhere and post a link. I'll look at it and I know many others will have a look at it as well.

Forgive my ignorance, but what do you mean by camera "raw"? I saw this setting on the camera but don't understand what it means.

Looks like it's in auto white balance or something crazy. But it isn't. Is it?

 

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Yes, you're right. I didn't even know what white balance was until you asked this question then I googled it. I am using florescent lighting with a color temperature of 5500K. Which white balance setting would you recommend?

My options are: Flour: Warm Light, Flour: Cool White, Flour: Day White, Flour: Daylight

Thanks for the tips. I have something like a barn door which I created out of cardboard and foil. However, it was very difficult to get the background black and I'm afraid to adjust the lights as they are now. But it's worth a try.

I like the scratch light idea. My space is limited, but I have one open space that would work good for this!

We're getting ready to shoot a youtube video for my company. I've done some test runs and thought I should probably get some opinions as to how my lighting looks. This is the first time I've ever done anything like this so keep that in mind. I've attached an image below. It is basically a freeze of a video clip. It seems to me that maybe I need better light on the hair. Any thoughts?

The problem was showing up on all video players. I actually first noticed it when I uploaded a test clip onto youtube and watched it back.

The strange thing is, it's not doing it on any new film after that night. I'm scratching my head over here.

I'm using a Sony RX100 m3 camera to film a corporate interview type video. We've done multiple takes and on every one, starting at around the 8 second mark it seems to lose its color richness. It's pretty subtle but noticeable. It kinda turns pale green and is only really noticeable on the skin. See the two images below.

Does anyone have any idea what this might be? We are complete novices using any type of camera but it seems like a pretty decent shot until this happens.

Not sure if any of this matters but, we're shooting 24p, 50 fps, f2.8, ISO at 125. File format is XAVC S

Brian,

Sorry for the delayed reply. I never got a notification that I had received a reply. Anyway, thanks for taking the time to answer my questions. Your input is very helpful!

I'm trying to get setup to film a marketing video for my company. So far, I have a camera, decent audio setup and 3-point lighting system. I'm wanting to go with a black backdrop and the area I'm wanting to work in is 8 feet wide. I'm not wanting anything fancy or experimental. I just need a decent quality video.

A few questions:

1. Is 8 feet wide enough for a one-person interview type shoot?

2. My wife seems to think it's not good to zoom the camera and instead the camera should be setup so that the shot is perfect without correcting with zoom. Is this right?

3. Is it necessary for the camera to be perfectly level? I tend to look better when a camera is pointed slightly down at me. Would this be a good or bad idea?

Any advice is greatly appreciated!