Enhance the visual quality of your motion pictures and digital videos with a solid understanding of lighting fundamentals. This complete course in digital video lighting begins with an explanation of how the human eye and the camera process light and color, progresses through the basics of equipment and setups, and finishes with pracitical lessons on how to solve common problems, especially in HD.Learn how to develop an artist's eye for lightm, shadow, and color, and the techniques for reproducing them, always focusing on why lighting matters, not just how it works.
Lavishly illustrated in full color with detailed illustrations and real-world examples that demonstrate proper equipment use, safety issues, and staging techniques, Lighting for staging techniques, Lighting for Digital Video and Television presents you with everything you need to create your own visual masterpices.
Features:
- Film-style lighting techniques that create realistic looks
- Lighting for HD with a low budget
- Master techniques of shooting in available light
- Lighting sets with fixed practical light sources
- Specialized setups for blue screen, night shots, and product phtography
- Color Correction techniques in mixed lighting situations
Chapter 1 : Why Is Lighting Important for Television and Video?
Chapter 2 : Human Vision, the Camera, and Exposure
Chapter 3 : Volts, Amps, and Watts
Chapter 4 : Lighting Instruments
Chapter 5 : Lighting Controls and Uses
Chapter 6 : Basic Lighting Techniques
Chapter 7 : Interview Setups
Chapter 8 : Solving Common Problems
Chapter 9 : Studio Lighting
Chapter 10 : Advanced Lighting Setups
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This book is my new go-to guide for aspiring production professionals who want to know not only the "how", but more importantly much of the 'why' of lighting. Concepts are well explained, leaving few, if any, gaps.
-- Tim Kolb, Emmy-Award winning Director --
John Jackman is an award-winning independent director and producer who has been involved in dramatic and video production since the mid-seventies. Widely regarded as an authority on digital production techniques, John has been a contributing editor to DV Magazine, and has taught workshops for NAB, the American Film Institute (AFI), Digital Video Expo, and the Library of Congress, along with various film schools, colleges, and university programs.