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Quick Tips For Lighting Your Web Video

Published: Jun 19th, 2009 | Author: admin Add Comment

So you’ve outlined your web video, have all of the information that you need and you’re ready to go out and begin filming the video that will increase traffic to your site and inform millions of people about a certain topic.  However, there is only one problem.  As you sit outside, or in your living room, you look through your camera’s viewfinder only to find that the lighting is off.  While you see that the lighting needs help, you don’t know what to do.  However, there are a couple of quick tips for lighting your web video that will give you the light you need, and get rid of the light you don’t.

If you want to have a beautifully lit web video, than you will want to engage in 3-Point Lighting.  This is a great way to light any type of web video, and it also ensures you will stay away from hotspots and shadows, which can ruin a video.  3-Point Lighting stands for the three main type of lights that you will be using.  These lights include Back Light, Key Light and Fill Light.  It doesn’t matter what type of light you use, as long as you follow the rules that are associated with this type of lighting process.  After you have followed the process of lighting your video in this manner, you will have a gorgeous outcome.

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