How to Light a Scene with Candlelight

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Learn how to light a scene with candlelight and make it look beautiful and realistically lit by candles only. Lighting with candles is actually pretty simple once you know the basics. Candles have a warm color temperature usually around 1800 to 2000 kelvin. Adding candles to your scene can make it look very cinematic and interesting. Candles aren't just for pieces set back in the time of castles and knights. Candlelight is also used in post apocalyptic shows, romances and so many other genres!
Using candlelight to light your scenes, short films and other videos is pretty easy. Often times you can add extra film lights to help augment the candle light and make it look brighter and motivated. We also show you how to get a natural flicker effect from candles in your scene, the same flicker effect can be used for fires as well.
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@edrosa3485 6 лет назад

That flicker effect was brilliant.

@chadwin 6 лет назад

ed rosa thanks! Hopefully you find it useful for your own projects!

@ExpressiveImagery 5 лет назад

I really love how you lit this scene with the motivated light and even a gentle amount of camera movement. I thought it was a BBC period drama at first 😀

@chadwin 5 лет назад

Thank you! I tried to make the light look as realistic and motivated in the scene as possible. haha! It totally looks like we're filming a re-enactment of some old history scene ha?

@camilofarkas6965 3 года назад

Thanks for this!!! Matching the candle light with the 3000K wb on camera shows that you know what you are doing. Keep it up

@chadwin 3 года назад

Camilo Farkas haha thank you! I try to get things as technically correct as I can when it comes to lighting, but I’m still learning every day.

@SalarMahdavi 5 лет назад

Thank you 🙏

@dennisclark8766 4 года назад

Another one knocked out of the park... Thanks for showing us how to.

@chadwin 4 года назад

Hey thank you!! 🙃 Hope it helps with your own candlelight scenes in the future!

@LordHansCapon 4 года назад

Dude, I cannot thank you enough for this. I've been hunting this very video down for weeks. You're a gent.

@chadwin 4 года назад

Luke Dale Films you’re very welcome my friend! I really hope it helps. Glad you finally found it. 🥳

@davidjamesuob3027 Год назад

Excellent idea with the Lastolite gold reflector. Thanks

@Solarfactor 4 года назад

Hi Chadwin, the Boling lights have a very good candlelight, TV and flickering light effect. Love your channel, by the way. Thank you for sharing! :)

@KarlHeinzKristen 5 лет назад

Great Explaining... Great Language... and never seen such a good explaining before... You are great... Thanks....

@chadwin 5 лет назад

THANK YOU! I really appreciate that. I hope it helps you with your next candlelit scene.

@nichols9156 6 лет назад

Wow man! you're creating such an amazing content. I love your videos

@chadwin 6 лет назад

Thanks, I really appreciate that! Stick around, plenty more videos to come.

@ehJoe 6 лет назад

Great to catch this, this was great info.

@chadwin 6 лет назад

Thank you!!

@houseofphotography9261 4 года назад

Awesome

@chadwin 4 года назад

House Of Photography thanks!

@cricketer3135 5 лет назад

Wonderful it’s look very cinematic !

@chadwin 5 лет назад

Thank you! I appreciate it.

@azlanarainkhan4549 3 года назад

Great knowledge

@filmmakerslife5381 6 лет назад

Subscribed because you have an amazing lighting sense

@chadwin 6 лет назад

Ricky Smith thanks man, appreciate that! Lighting is what it’s all about!!

@filmmakerslife5381 6 лет назад

Chadwin Smith yupp

@svencarlsson343 4 года назад

Excellent and to the point...

@chadwin 4 года назад

Thank you!

@lcprod 6 лет назад

Grande!!

@chadwin 6 лет назад

Gracias!

@rehaanniaz380 5 лет назад

I like this video

@hariharakumarkuna 3 года назад

Awesome stuff...What's the light used behind the window .

@chadwin 3 года назад

hariharakumark thank you! It’s called an ETC Source Four. It uses a traditional tungsten bulb that gets very hot, but it’s also very powerful!

@estebanmedrano4160 5 лет назад

what's your lens aperture and camera iso? what camera are you using?

@chadwin 5 лет назад

Esteban Medrano I used the Sony a7s and Rokinon 50mm around f2.5. I cant remember the exact ISO but it wasn’t over 3000. I usually keep it pretty low to avoid any extra noise.

@PrabhjotSinghTech 6 лет назад

This video was lit (no pun intended😂) Very informative video man!!

@chadwin 6 лет назад

Coming in "hot" with the jokes! Haha thanks man!

@itsharsh73 6 лет назад

Plz make vedio on having candlelight dinner couples ..how to click cinematic images...

@chadwin 5 лет назад

that would be cool! I'll definitely add it to my list of video ideas. Thanks!

@RichyKwan 6 лет назад

How much would you do a music video for? Even theoretically speaking. But I am serious tho. I would love to figure somthing out!

@chadwin 6 лет назад

Richy Kwan that would be cool to make a music video! I’m in AZ though, where are you at?

@RichyKwan 6 лет назад

Chadwin Smith im all the way in Canada BC! I guess ill have to contact you when im in Arizona next!

@GregWhiting 4 года назад

Question here maybe someone can answer.. I'm try to shoot some cinematic low light shots. Like a completely dark scene with one light source type stuff. For example - filming a candle burning. I'm using a sony a6400 and a sigma 30mm f1.4. I'm shooting with a really low ISO. I get a good looking scene with 1.4 aperture and ISO 100 but when I pull up the clips on my PC they're super grainy. My shadows are full of grain. How do people get their blacks to just be black? I don't need detail but I really don't need grain..

@chadwin 4 года назад

Greg Whiting it sounds like all of your settings are good in cam, but you can’t see the grain on your camera LCD cause it’s so small. Once you get in on a computer it’s easy to see. The best way to get rid of it is with a Noise Reduction plug in, like Neat Video. Or you can crush the blacks and sometimes that hides the noise

@GregWhiting 4 года назад

@@chadwin gotcha. So that's how people get the really low light stuff to look good? Or is there anything I'm missing in camera? I've been surprised how much grain I've been getting when my ISO is at 100 even in brighter low light conditions than trying to film a candle burning..

@chadwin 4 года назад

@@GregWhiting Yeah, you usually have to add some noise reduction in post to help clean up dark footage. What Frame rate and resolution are you filming in? If you're filming in 60 or 120, your shutter speed will be higher and noise/compression will be worse. Full frame cameras like the Sony a7s handle low light and noise Much better than my a6500 does.

@GregWhiting 4 года назад

@@chadwin I was experimenting shooting with different frame rates from 24 to 120 knowing that 24 should have the lowest amount of noise. I was shooting in 1080. I'll have to try 4k to see if that helps. I'm also really new to picture profiles. Would that make a difference?

@chadwin 4 года назад

Greg Whiting yeah, definitely give 4k a try. 1080p on the a6500 doesn’t look nearly as good. And yes, PP can def make a big difference in noise. Flatter PP’s like PP7, 8,9 and SLOG generally have more noise especially cause they have higher minimum ISO’s