The fact that you chose Cronenweth’s lighting from Blade Runner as one of the analysis images is fantastic. It’s a great movie to study lighting. Kudos.
It blows me away that before last year I didn't even think about learning about lighting. Now I am utterly obsessed. It is such an important skill to have when being a cinematographer. Loved this video!!
Yes, knowing how to read images is as important - if not more - than learning to replicate an extremely contextual setup! Also, and I say it cause a lot of lighting breakdown/analysis do it, but doing it with a still is somehow incomplete. Films are moving images after all ;) In the Blade Runner example, you chose a frame where all his body is dark. Made me think there's probably a light dedicated to his face, but seeing other stills from this shot, his body catches the light too.
I think it’s more about learning to see the light motivation and learning to see where all the light is coming from to make the image. Films are moving stills. So you can def look at an image and learn lighting, learn what it’s doing to the overall look and scene.
@@BrittneyJanae Yeah I agree with you, that's what I meant by reading the image :) And you can definitely learn this from stills. Just saying the final step is to test your scene lighting with movement, but you're right, wasn't really your point.
@@Okiyah oh for sure!! I agree. I think people automatically go into trying to learn by using the light without learning the fundamentals or even knowing how to see light. I’m right with ya!
Very informative. Understanding how light works is probably the most important part of photography but seems many dont understand. I just watched a video of someone reviewing an instant film camera and seeing the individual rant that the photo was overexposed and blamed the camera. Thought to myself "no sir you cannot aim a camera at objects in full sun without filters". Cameras cannot compensate like that.
Very informative I love this video. Thank you for sharing - this helps a lot as a photographer how to use light+color to affect the mood/tone of the stories we’re sharing.
Great! I think that it will also be very helpful to watch that particular scene and understand whats the motivation behind or whats motivating the light.
Yess love that! I agree!! It so much that goes into analyzing. If we actually took the time to do it more we would understand light in a completely different way!
@@BrittneyJanae no, these are the fundamentals you did not talk about. Without it you can be the best videographer, you won't be able to do anything what was explained in the video.
@@iammz81 lol you missed the whole point. When I first started I made things happen with no money. No free lighting. Learn lighting and you can buy the cheapest stuff to have good results! Amazon has really good cheap affordable lights. You really did miss the point. It’s really sad.
