This is a test of lighting using 2 lamps. Background lighting was a CFL worklight (quite powerful – 42W – and cheap!) which has a daylight colour balance. On it I used three thicknesses of very cheap light blue cellophane (CFL lights run cool) to make the light bluer. The light is bounced off the ceiling. The spotlight is a dedolight DL-4 on low power to give a balance between foreground and background light levels. I then white-balanced using a white card held in the spotlight beam – which also makes the background even bluer. I used Sony Vegas to bring up the black threshold level, followed by Magic Bullet Looks to add film curves, diffusion and radial blur. Finally I added slight sharpening to bring out the metal harp strings. As this was a visual test, audio was just the on-mic audio and you’ll hear I didn’t tune the harp! The idea was to emulate some of the BBC’s “late night” music footage.
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Excellent experiment. Brilliant idea on the CFL. Wish I had MB.
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Thanks! I’m still trying to grapple with video lighting but like the dramatic effect of this. But trouble with lighting is it’s just such a hassle in a confined space not getting it in the shot and still having room to move!
very nice selective lighting. Well done.
I like the way this looks good even in standard qualtiy – tho HD is obviously crisper. There’s very little video noise. Ignore the audio – I just wanted to provide a bit of action in the picture!