I havent done much of any reading to educate myself on lighting just yet..so I think its gonna take me a while to get a solid foundation of how thats suppose to work, any suggestions?

Hi Sean,

I am guessing this in reply to my post...

I am quite lucky that at university we get cinematographers in to teach us how to light. A week is not long enough, its takes years and years but the basics are there. To be honest I find it common sense, you want to set your subject apart from teh background, so contrast the light between the two to give your image some punch. www.cinematography.net is a good source of information, as are the forums at www.dvxuser.com and of course you can study films all you like. I often find a film and copy its lighting to achieve a certain look, no harm in learning that way.

some links that should help:

Walter Graff Instruction......anything by Walter is fantastic
http://www.bluesky-web.com/new-page6.html

Lighting For DV
http://www.mediaed.org.uk/posted_documents/lighting.htm

BBC Lighting training
http://www.bbctraining.com/onlineCourses.asp

CurrentTV Lighting guide
http://current.tv/studio/survivalguide/

Hope that helps mate!

Anthony

Ta for links. If u need to do it on the cheap site lights are brill.

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No problem Mark, very good point regarding site lights, you reminded me of an article I found last week http://www.shuttertalk.com/articles/...ting/index.php

We used some on our original set, if you can build them a set of barn doors you're laughing!

That's a really useful article - I need to do something about lighting.

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