Dear FTF crew, I have spent days now binge watching your videos and will sign up for your class, even if much of the content is just repeats of what I've seen. $400 or so for a college degrees worth of info is darn cheap. I have a $50,000 degree that I never used! LOL. Could make that $400 back in a day with the information! I'm working on setting up a few UA-cam channels and a couple of podcasts. Incidentally, I loaded up my B&H cart with about $2500 worth of gear (BMD 6KG2, lenses, filters, basic stuff) and wanted to give you guys the credit. I kind of understand how affiliate programs work, but I had to dig to find a B&H link! I found it on Parker's page I guess for gear. So I clicked one of the B&H links (random product I didn't get) and then checked out with my cart. I hope they pay you the commish on everything in my cart. It's the least I can do for all of the amazing content I've watched in the last few days. I hope others do the same and that it's a fruitful referral or affiliate program.
That's a GREAT video. Has to stop at 1:37 because just that "expose for what you cannot control" thing alone its worth the comment, so important! brilliant!
Lighting is everything, whenever I ask my producers for a new piece of equipment. Their immediate reaction is, "we know it has something to do with a piece of lighting equipment!" We all break into laughter and I refer to your videos as the reasons why. Thank you Sun!
Thank your for this great Video! 1. Overexposes Background 2. Flat Image 3. Incorrect mood 4. Overusing Hard Light 5. Not enough Light 6. Not lighting spaces 7. No Background Separation 8. Overexposed skin tones 9. Wrong color temperature 10 No color Contrast
I would also like to add that when creating depth, keep your subject off the wall and maybe use the long end of the lens to help with creating a shallow depth of field. And if you are in a small room, try to shoot catacorner if you can. The longest distance in any room is corner to corner. When you film in a lot of small doctor offices, you learn a few tricks...lol
The IRE tip for skintones it's misleading at best imo. It really depends on the gamma curve you're using to record the image, if I remember correctly, in order to have a clean image in post from a Slog2 gamma, you should expose skin tones between 65 and 80 IRE; many other gammas such as Clog require different expousures for a propper correction in post
First one great video!! Much to my excitement of being first commenting - I have been watching many of your videos and your tips and tricks have made my video production quality much better. Many thanks for all the hard work that you do to produce high quality video that helps others
9:50 curious as to the "half apple missing" ha ha. im like "were they trying to cover up the logo in post and it slipped?". Great vid. lighting is so wonderful and amazing. was in charge of lighting a few CG projects and I went down the rabbit hole of how light behaves. Studying how global illumination, ambient occlusion and how ray marching works. light is the magic. I do a lot of audio engineering and its a common issue where people will keep turning up different bands of the eq, instead of subtractive carving of problematic frequencies.. just adding and adding and you end up with a noise loud piece of music with no balance. Glad to see the first part of this video talk about exposing for room first. good stuff. have a good one
Very nicely done as usual, incredible color demonstration of each topic. I don’t make those mistakes. I make other mistakes - my most recent was skipping the Phil light in an interview, sticking with just two lights. This illustrates a point: many times due to budget or time, I don’t get the perfect lighting and say that’s good enough. This gets pretty so philosophical. Will save it for another video… Great job guys!
Actually this is a pretty good video. Better than most. The important thing for people to understand, which seem too be covered pretty well are; The Five Properites of Light- Direction. Quality (hard/soft), Color. Intensity (how strong is the light). Area of light coverage (how wide or narrow is the light beam). If newbies or the unschooled learn and reference these as a checklist on everything they light and shoot they will be "light years" :) ahead of the game. Also... Look up Leon Kennamer/Subtractive lighting.
Nice brief lesson 👍 great video! But you had me scared for a minute there until the end! The term ‘Rookie’ was used to describe people who didn’t know these basics, but until a short 8-10 years ago you HAD to know all these things to even be considered a ‘rookie’. 😳 I was thinking to myself “what the hell happened out there?!” But then at the end, you brought it home and called them all “Beginner Mistakes” and I let out a huge sigh of relief! Right on mates! Great work you’re doin’ over there. Glad you’re out there. 😎👍
Great inputs as always! BUT... you have to keep an eye on how many times you say "we have a course on that". There was a time, where you where a youtuber and not a channel that promotes it's paid courses. Anyways - thanks for sharing your knowledge with us 👍 cheers
Sir can you make a video for small time youtubers. Non professionals like who make make videos in a bedroom or in a small room. How can make the small room or a bedroom to a UA-cam studio. This will help a lot of UA-camrs including myself
Well to be honest, on the thumbnail I much prefer the pic on the left, the one you have an X over, to me it’s more appealing, but I’ve always crushed the blacks and raised the contrast .. art, there is no wrong way or right way it’s what feels right..(as long as you know how to properly do it)
When I started filming, there were no cheap Chinese LED flashlights; I used construction halogen lamps on stands and white diffusers and umbrellas. These lights are cheap, about $5 for 500 watts, but they get very hot. And the room just gets hot. It was difficult to work with them, but I understand that it was a very good lesson.
Oh this is good this is real good. Happy to have been a part of this!
Hi @brady
Brady! Great collab with Parker! I still remember us talking cameras back at Farmer’s Table in Boca!
From the (Mark) Bone Zone to Fulltime Filmmaker, you're on a world tour!
Can’t wait to do this course 🧑💻
So many subtle cameos in this video! Thanks for the great content.
Dear FTF crew,
I have spent days now binge watching your videos and will sign up for your class, even if much of the content is just repeats of what I've seen. $400 or so for a college degrees worth of info is darn cheap. I have a $50,000 degree that I never used! LOL. Could make that $400 back in a day with the information! I'm working on setting up a few UA-cam channels and a couple of podcasts.
Incidentally, I loaded up my B&H cart with about $2500 worth of gear (BMD 6KG2, lenses, filters, basic stuff) and wanted to give you guys the credit. I kind of understand how affiliate programs work, but I had to dig to find a B&H link! I found it on Parker's page I guess for gear. So I clicked one of the B&H links (random product I didn't get) and then checked out with my cart. I hope they pay you the commish on everything in my cart. It's the least I can do for all of the amazing content I've watched in the last few days. I hope others do the same and that it's a fruitful referral or affiliate program.
That's a GREAT video. Has to stop at 1:37 because just that "expose for what you cannot control" thing alone its worth the comment, so important! brilliant!
I am a total beginner to lighting, and this's been super helpful. Thank you!
Lighting is everything, whenever I ask my producers for a new piece of equipment. Their immediate reaction is, "we know it has something to do with a piece of lighting equipment!" We all break into laughter and I refer to your videos as the reasons why. Thank you Sun!
Well you don't have to agree or disagree, you simply see it from a different point a view and that's okay too@@texaslineproductions
I didn’t learn shit in film school back in 2012-2015. I learned more about light in this 20 min video.
Woohoooo.... I'm a huge fan of Brady Bessette... its so good to see him in your channel...
Whattt !!!! 🤯🤯🤯
Thank your for this great Video!
1. Overexposes Background
2. Flat Image
3. Incorrect mood
4. Overusing Hard Light
5. Not enough Light
6. Not lighting spaces
7. No Background Separation
8. Overexposed skin tones
9. Wrong color temperature
10 No color Contrast
I made this investment in myself a few years ago and it is still paying dividends. Thank you Parker for your contribution to the world. God Bless.
I would also like to add that when creating depth, keep your subject off the wall and maybe use the long end of the lens to help with creating a shallow depth of field. And if you are in a small room, try to shoot catacorner if you can. The longest distance in any room is corner to corner. When you film in a lot of small doctor offices, you learn a few tricks...lol
What is catacorner?
@@bluerabbit1236 orientation from the corner of a room
Amazing video! Thank you so much this has been so helpful!
Fantastic video!!
Honestly the most informative lighting video I have found on UA-cam 🙏 Thank you
I agree!
Whoa Hozier is so talented, didn't know he was good with lights too
The IRE tip for skintones it's misleading at best imo. It really depends on the gamma curve you're using to record the image, if I remember correctly, in order to have a clean image in post from a Slog2 gamma, you should expose skin tones between 65 and 80 IRE; many other gammas such as Clog require different expousures for a propper correction in post
Such a high value video, thank you so much, you got a 100% watch time here :)
hey zebra zone, love watching your videos! 😁
Zebra Zone, the Goat in editing, music design, VFX, etc. Love seeing your videos man.
First one great video!! Much to my excitement of being first commenting - I have been watching many of your videos and your tips and tricks have made my video production quality much better. Many thanks for all the hard work that you do to produce high quality video that helps others
Always great to see content which you can and will apply in real life situations. Thank you for being here for us ! 🙏🏼
1 minutte in and already got the first super cool example wow SO GOOD THIS VIDEO
I’ve been really looking forward to all your new videos Parker
i watched it few times, every minute is worth watching. such a high value video! thanks for your effort!
9:50 curious as to the "half apple missing" ha ha. im like "were they trying to cover up the logo in post and it slipped?". Great vid. lighting is so wonderful and amazing. was in charge of lighting a few CG projects and I went down the rabbit hole of how light behaves. Studying how global illumination, ambient occlusion and how ray marching works. light is the magic. I do a lot of audio engineering and its a common issue where people will keep turning up different bands of the eq, instead of subtractive carving of problematic frequencies.. just adding and adding and you end up with a noise loud piece of music with no balance. Glad to see the first part of this video talk about exposing for room first. good stuff. have a good one
YOU PUT OUT GREAT VIDEOS. THANKS FOR ALL YOU DO AND YOU MOTIVATE ME ENORMOUSLY. THANKS
New editor is killing it
Very nicely done as usual, incredible color demonstration of each topic. I don’t make those mistakes. I make other mistakes - my most recent was skipping the Phil light in an interview, sticking with just two lights. This illustrates a point: many times due to budget or time, I don’t get the perfect lighting and say that’s good enough. This gets pretty so philosophical. Will save it for another video… Great job guys!
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I rarely comment on videos but this was an outstanding production Parker! Thank you
Definitely one of the best lighting videos I have seen so far!
IRE and Kelvin notes were awesome. I've been watching videos a lot for this type of advice and have never seen it. Thank you!
Congratulations 🎊🎉 you have been as a great winner for the ongoing giveaway contest text me above..🎄🎁
Quality content as always. Parker you the best
Been waiting for Video like this.
So great to have Brady on this
I did't know anything about lighting. Thank you Parker, I really enjoy learnig from you.
Bro this channel is a gem
Great. Immediately better photos in overexposed daylight. Thanks!
Parker never disappoints with the content he brings to us.
True
Actually this is a pretty good video. Better than most. The important thing for people to understand, which seem too be covered pretty well are; The Five Properites of Light- Direction. Quality (hard/soft), Color. Intensity (how strong is the light). Area of light coverage (how wide or narrow is the light beam). If newbies or the unschooled learn and reference these as a checklist on everything they light and shoot they will be "light years" :) ahead of the game. Also... Look up Leon Kennamer/Subtractive lighting.
Thank you for sharing this information with us. More power to your work. I love you
Congratulations 🎊🎉 you have been as a great winner for the ongoing giveaway contest text me above..🎄🎁
this is what i nedd, thank u!
01:46 to 01:54 MY GOD what a beauty
Huge fan from Ethiopia you have been a great blessing for me
Amazing content Parker
Collaboration over competition 👌🏻
Fantastic video!
This is literally gold in knowledge
useful 17mins on tricky topic of lighting.
Congratulations 🎊🎉 you have been as a great winner for the ongoing giveaway contest text me above..🎄🎁
Oh my god. What a video. Thank you so much. Your video is amazing !
Super informative. Thank you!
First to watch I guess thanks for the vid it’s always improving and inspiring me
This is absolutely marvellous!
Amazing tips, short, clear, helpful. Thank🙏
Every video is GOLD guys, thanks ♥♥
This was better than the 2 lighting classes I took in film school
Been looking for a helpful video for lighting... found it! Thank you!!
Such an excellent and useful video. Gonna watch it a few times. Thank you!
Nice brief lesson 👍 great video!
But you had me scared for a minute there until the end!
The term ‘Rookie’ was used to describe people who didn’t know these basics, but until a short 8-10 years ago you HAD to know all these things to even be considered a ‘rookie’. 😳
I was thinking to myself “what the hell happened out there?!”
But then at the end, you brought it home and called them all “Beginner Mistakes” and I let out a huge sigh of relief!
Right on mates! Great work you’re doin’ over there.
Glad you’re out there.
😎👍
SUPERMAN BIG UPS ✊
YOU'RE EXTREMELY ON POINT EVERY TIME.
I am not a videographer at all but this is still very interesting to me. Thanks for the nice video
Everytime amazing tipps and tutorials
This is a proper masterclass!
THIS IS A BANGER GUYS soooooo amazingly helpful thank u
Thats astounding knowledge thanks as always!
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Excellent Tutorial!
Thank you so much …. Learn a lot and just subscribed ❤
Thank you, I learn lot from Bradg detail about light,
Best. As usual. Regards from Spain
Great lesson in formulaic Hollywood filmmaking.
BRADY BESSETTE ON SET!
Hi :)
@@BradyBessette I never watch this channel only now because I know its a killer content. Thanks to you!
Brady is genius... Thank you Parker
Excellent demonstration I like your way of orientation..👌
Thanks guys. God bless.
Love the content. I appreciate all the pointers
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This video came at the best time for me ❤❤❤
I bought a camera just to discover that I'd actually need to spend more on lights than in the camera and glass lmao
My hobby for 2023 and beyond, is photography 😍
I know what looks good, but litterally don't know anything about how to produce it🤷♂️
Today, lighting🤔
Incredible explanation
Very, very helpful. Thanks so much!
Great inputs as always! BUT... you have to keep an eye on how many times you say "we have a course on that". There was a time, where you where a youtuber and not a channel that promotes it's paid courses.
Anyways - thanks for sharing your knowledge with us 👍 cheers
Sir can you make a video for small time youtubers. Non professionals like who make make videos in a bedroom or in a small room. How can make the small room or a bedroom to a UA-cam studio. This will help a lot of UA-camrs including myself
This is a great video. Very educational. Thanks for sharing.
awesome breakdown of each mistake.... much love from Jamaica
Great content! Thanks for sharing!👊
Very useful. Thank you guys🌱🙏
Thanks 🙏 a million for the free information
This video was awesome!! Thank you 🙏🏻🙏🏻
Loved it!
Congratulations 🎊🎉 you have been as a great winner for the ongoing giveaway contest text me above..🎄🎁
Well to be honest, on the thumbnail I much prefer the pic on the left, the one you have an X over, to me it’s more appealing, but I’ve always crushed the blacks and raised the contrast .. art, there is no wrong way or right way it’s what feels right..(as long as you know how to properly do it)
Amazing video! Very EDUCATIONAL 😮
thank you guys for this you really helped me much love
Brady is blowin up! 👍👍👍
Really useful thanks 👍
Wow, FTF is the gift that keeps on giving! Psyched to dive into the full course…
Knocked it right out of the park…again.
When I started filming, there were no cheap Chinese LED flashlights; I used construction halogen lamps on stands and white diffusers and umbrellas. These lights are cheap, about $5 for 500 watts, but they get very hot. And the room just gets hot. It was difficult to work with them, but I understand that it was a very good lesson.
Great information about lights
Excellent Advice, More More More, Please!!!
This is the most comprehensive lighting video and it wasted no time
Very great Tutorial
Thank you for the useful information.
One spelling correction: separation has one e, not two
Video was very helpful.
great video, thank you so much!