How to Achieve Cinematic Lighting Without Expensive Gear

[@rayafilms]

Great video - you got the link for those black sheets somewhere?

[@danielduanetv]

Top notch video as always. I would love to see a color oriented video. Showing the relationship between the color temperature of the lighting to the WB of the camera. And the grading pipeline to get to the final result.

[@TenfoldProduction]

Dope! For sure, we just have a bit of a backlog we're working through!

[@josepheriksson]

This is great, I love that you are talking to us like we already know something (I have been in the industry for 10 years but still love to learn)

[@tomaszbejnarowicz]

I’d love to see some backstage shots when you’re talking about floppies and similar topics. It’s hard to imagine what it all looked like when I only have the final shots to go by.

[@TenfoldProduction]

@@tomaszbejnarowicz no problem! The future videos well incorporate more BTS!

[@nebukadnezzar3578]

that'd be cool indeed! :))

[@ekphotography]

Love your breakdowns and I mentioned in another post of yours that is would be awesome if you had some behind the scenes with wider shots actually showing where your lights are actually placed. Diagrams are helpful but don't really "tell" the whole story. Thanks a lot for the breakdowns. I wish I could do more moody shoots for my advertising Clients but usually they want to see more of the clothing and textures which usually means I have to use more frontal lighting and cannot usually shoot on the shadow side which is more cinematic and pleasing. But I always try to sneak some quick shots in for myself for the "Director's Cut". lol

[@TenfoldProduction]

Yeah for sure, appreciate you! This is one of the older projects we shot where we didn't have much bts yet. But will definitely start to incorporate more of those. Yeah always a tricky balance with client work and director's work. Eventually it'll balance out and you'll get more moody stuff in there haha.

[@AdamInside]

hey brother, loved the video thank you so much, i'm wondering which lens was used in the interview setups ?

[@mintysingularity]

1:55 buying large rolls of black plastic tablecloth material is the cheapest and easiest way, and it works great.

[@samuelcordero4812]

Do you use a light meter? It would be interesting to see a video explaining the process you use to decide ratios

[@robaroba6694]

So informative. I might try in my next shoot.

[@TenfoldProduction]

appreciate you! Let us know how it goes.

[@JosephRossPhotography]

Man, I need to try these setups, I just got a new monitor 7 inch so I’ll be able to see my the frame of the shot far away.

[@willvazquez3218]

Great video, however, your contrasty side lighting, made the subject’s teeth more prominent. I know you wanna stick to your style, but each subject is a little different, you should have analyzed that the side lighting would make his poor teeth more prominent, and thus should have lit him a little more frontal with more fill to reduce the contrast on his teeth. Remember the lighting serves the subject and the story.

[@arun_kumar0]

i expected o see the behind the scene instead of just diagrams... and I wanted to see some practical lights as well...

[@TenfoldProduction]

Thanks for the feedback Arun! Will make sure to add more practical lights and concepts for the next one.

[@arun_kumar0]

@@TenfoldProduction please also drop some behind the scenes too... we need to see the process instead of just end result...

[@TenfoldProduction]

@ will do!