Lighting night interiors 

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I love these videos because this is EXACTLY how I taught myself lighting when I was in my teens and early 20s. I used to stay up at night for HOURS just tweaking lighting for product shots and portrait setups using random stuff in my house and myself as a model. To this day 15 years later I still flash back to those setups whenever I'm trying to think through a complex shot. Thank you so much for covering your late night experiments like this. It's 100% my vibe.

I know little to nothing about cinematography.

I absolutely love these breakdowns. They are SO helpful and inspirational. I get a lot of ideas for lighting from them. Thank you!

I love hearing you work through your process!!

Very nice. I would love someone, a person like yourself perhaps to address the elephant in the room about lighting with practicals which is the often ridiculous use of practicals placed in scenes with the expectation that the audience is supposed to read the scene as normal yet the sheer number of them in a frame makes it look wholly unnatural. An even more absurd example of lighting gone mad is demonstrated so brilliantly in one film shot by the great roger deakins. In two scenes both in bright daylight the solutions are so poles apart as to make the concept of creating believable lighting to a rational leave the building entirely. The film is no country for old men. Scene one deputy about to be strangled by AC. Deakins solution is to shine a fresnel into the top left of the frame at the ceiling wall join to bounce light back into the room without placing a fixture visibly in frame. Beautiful. Love that. Simple. Solves a problem and works. Scene two CW carson wells visits boss headquarters and boss is sitting behind a desk back to a huge window that covers most of the background. Cw is front lit of course by all the natural light. He is facing the window and the boss sitting at his desk. (Btw it is a super bright day) YET the room is absolutely covered in practicals all on in broad daylight. ???? There must be about 8 lights on in the scene. The rest of the film seems to approach the issue of upstage daylight by using simple bounce maybe and all looks very natural but this one scene just makes me wonder, what were they thinking. It looks immediately ridiculous to me. The whole film is shot in a kind of bright arizona or texas sunlight so maybe this is what people actually do out there but i just cannot explain how on the day someone doesn’t say. Hey i love the look but I’m not sure this eeally rings true to life. It seems a contrivance to always have a practical somewhere in shot in the background but so many cinematographers live by it. I understand why but so often it looks like the art department just went mad. I understand that deakins is very aware if the use of practicals and motivational light and that is what makes this so so surprising. In reality they must just have decided that no one would notice. And inreality euphoria being a perfect example these days people get lit up by a whole Christmas tree of different coloured light sources with little or no explanation or motivation so does it really matter. Faking reality on demand is definitely a skill that everyone needs to learn perhaps in life as much as in lighting but to me this is as bizarre an issue as the eponymous use of volvo estate cars in every film ??? Again if you hadn’t noticed its a real thing. From a quiet place two to manchester by the sea, world war z to booksmart. Everyones significant other is a volvo. Truly bizarre. Meanwhile thanks again.

one of the best channels on yt for anything cinematography related tbh.

Keep it up dude. I’ve watched your videos a dozen+ times. Learned I need to get more lighting!

These are great. I like this format.

Absolute gold. Great video and great breakdown of your thought process

These videos are so helpful. Appreciate your uploads!!

Love hearing all of this thought process Blaine. All of this is literal gold!

Dude these videos are honestly so practical and helpful, and I love the style 👌🏻

This is so simple, yet it looks SO GREAT! Thanks for this video man!

This video was so informational but so calming to sit and watch at the same time

love that these are presented without a traditional educational/informational structure. your loose, unpredictable presentation provides a fun, insightful, different way in understanding your highly technical, yet artistic methodology. i'm new to your channel and have already watched 4-5 of your videos back to back. i'm a VFX artist in NYC looking to learn more about how the footage i work on day-to-day is made, and you've been an incredible source thus far. thank you for your posts!

Awesome and informative as always!👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🙌🏾🙌🏾good stuff.

Love this kinda of lighting breakdown. Subbed.

Two videos I've seen. I'm now a subscriber. As I said in the other video, love your approach.

Congrats on 10k dude. well deserved.