How to Light a Daytime Exterior (Lighting Breakdown) FX3

[@jonstnr]

This is a super practical, valuable and well made video - learned a ton in a few minutes! 10/10!! 🙏🏼

[@carstenschlag]

Hell yeah! Glad this was helpful man. Really appreciate you watching jon!

[@BradyBessette]

This is great work , the ad should roll on the superbowl

[@carstenschlag]

Thanks man! I’ve always thought what Super Bowl ads need are more balls lol. Appreciate you watching!!

[@Cinegavo]

no light beats the sun 💪 that last wide looks amazing

[@carstenschlag]

Agreed, can’t make better light then the OG light lol. Appreciate you my dude!!

[@RavikantRai21490]

Oh, an actually good looking shot with practical advice that makes a lot of sense. Nice to see some actually good content.

[@carstenschlag]

Thanks dude, that means alot you think this is good content. I really try to make stuff people will find useful so I’m super happy you liked it! Appreciate you man!

[@MattAzzarello]

I just did a mailbox shot recently! Really cool sequence!👌

[@carstenschlag]

Hell yeah! It’s been something I’ve been wanting to try for a while. This vid was a good excuse to give it a shot lol. Appreciate you!

[@BenjiSelby]

Heck yeah! Studio lights are great, but when you on a budget... the sunlight is free 99! Solid tips bro

[@carstenschlag]

Free 99 is always the move ! Appreciate you my dude!

[@jonstnr]

Still need the C-Stands and the bounce + neg fabric but it looks great! Just not 100% free 😂

[@PattyMcGoo]

Great video. Sun don’t care about your feelings. Feels like an existential metaphor

[@carstenschlag]

Lol also kinda feels like a Walmart t-shirt. Appreciate you big dawg!

[@moviesmadebymike]

It's been great following your journey from working with Danny to becoming your own man. Very cool man, love these breakdown videos.

[@carstenschlag]

Yo Mike! Thanks man! Haha it’s pretty cool you’ve seen my evolution. Appreciate you watching man!

[@moviesmadebymike]

@@carstenschlag Absolutely man, often check your website and see your spec work. It's great stuff and I can tell you are gonna go far, both on YT and also just as a DP in general

[@carstenschlag]

Thanks man, I hope I can live up To that!

[@kelvin8143]

非常有启发的拍摄方式，感谢推荐的app👍

[@carstenschlag]

Thanks dude! Yeah siding a sun tracker app will make shooting outside soooo much easier. Appreciate you!!

[@piusgyagenda]

All the shots are amazing more so that opening shot stood out for me. Thank for sharing

[@carstenschlag]

Thank you! The opening shot is my favorite as well. Really appreciate you taking the time to watch!

[@luker1ng]

Shooting a scene today outside this came at a perfect time!

[@carstenschlag]

awesome! Can’t wait to see it. Appreciate you watching Luke!

[@Math-Picard]

Woww this is gold, thank you so much

[@carstenschlag]

Thanks man, glad you find it useful! Really appreciate you watching!

[@MarkusNenning]

Fantastic video!!! Thank you!

[@carstenschlag]

Aye thanks Markus! Really appreciate you watching!!

[@farcushenderson]

This is such a fire video. I love nerds like you so much and I mean to use that word in its most endearing, complimentary, you’re-my-people kind of way 😂

[@carstenschlag]

Haha thank you man! I fully take that as a compliment. I’m def a lighting nerd. I’m glad you appreciate it. I appreciate you!!

[@Life_Of_Gal]

Amazing video and breakdown man! Keep it up!

[@carstenschlag]

Thanks brotha! I’ll try to keep ‘em coming haha. Appreciate you !!

[@tunnellightstudios5183]

Beautiful shots... Let's say instead of the evening light it was completely overcast. How would you give more of a 3 dimensional look to the talent? I can see the Negative fill coming in handy, but without the sun to bounce would you need something like a light to fill with?

[@carstenschlag]

I just had to do this on a commercial recently! Pretty much the answer (at least at the level I work at) is just use big NEG! Unless you have a lot of budget and crew trying to use lights will almost always feel unnatural. And with overcast you already have your soft light just take as much away as you need depending on the ratio you want and your good to go! To do this I recommend using a 12x12 neg. It gets harder and harder to do the smaller neg you use. If it’s just a single static close up you can get away with a 4x4 floppy but anything wider or with multiple people the bigger you can get the better. Hope that helps!! Appreciate you watching !

[@WhySteve]

I know your pointing south, but because the sun is screen right (screen east? haha), I subconsciously thought it was morning. Great video, simple but very good looking wide!

[@carstenschlag]

Haha interesting, I can totally see that now that you mention it! I’ll definitely be mindful of that going forward. Thanks man, really appreciate you taking the time to watch and comment!

[@WhySteve]

Of course man, great video and inspiring enough to make me wanna go shoot in the sun 🌞

[@carstenschlag]

Do it!! Haha the sun is the best light there is

[@jakubmicka]

Great video Carsten🔥 Thx for BTS / lighting tips 👌

[@carstenschlag]

Absolutely! If you ever have any specific things you want a vid on lmk and I’ll try to do it! Appreciate you man!

[@gabelomoteycreative]

another banger video! loving your journey man :) keep it up!

[@carstenschlag]

Thanks brotha! Appreciate you watching!

[@CabralCreates]

Man this already sounds interesting, I saved it for later when I got some time! 😁 I can tell it's going to be a big one 🔥

[@carstenschlag]

Hell yeah! Appreciate you bro!

[@joellohsen]

I definitely LOLed when she opened the urgent letter. Nice work! I’m just getting into lighting scenes and manipulating the sun. Can you do a video on some necessary light stands and other necessary gaffer equipment for hanging diffusion material and or hair lights, overhead lights ect. I currently own the Zhiyun Molus x100 and the G200. I’ve got unbleached muslin and shower curtains and bed sheets white and black. I just need to know what stands and other things are needed to rig all this up.

[@carstenschlag]

Haha I’m glad you enjoyed my dumb humor! It sounds like you’re actually in a pretty good place gear wise. I’d suggest getting a couple cstands and a junior boom arm and some sandbags. That would be a good solid place to start! I’ll add it to the list of videos tho!! Appreciate you watching man!!

[@joellohsen]

@@carstenschlag yeah, it’s the little things that can brighten up somebody’s day. Nothing beats an old fashioned drawing of a cock and balls. Lol. But Thanks for the lighting advise! I’ll chip away at acquiring one stand for every paid gig I get!! Thank again!

[@joshuagonzales8297]

This video is excellent and incredibly informative

[@carstenschlag]

Thank you man, that means a lot! I Appreciate you big time!!

[@joshuagonzales8297]

Reviewing 2 weeks later for my shoot tomorrow!

[@carstenschlag]

@@joshuagonzales8297 hell yeah man, good luck! Go crush it!

[@marcovernice]

dude you are aweesoommeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[@carstenschlag]

Right back at ya my dude!!! Really appreciate you taking the time to watch!

[@we_1k669]

Great video as always keep it up!

[@carstenschlag]

Thank you my dude!! Appreciate you !

[@CabralCreates]

This was amazing! So much value 😁

[@carstenschlag]

Thanks my dude! I really appreciate it!

[@jwflixvideography]

keep em coming bro, love your content!

[@carstenschlag]

I’ll try haha ! Really appreciate you watching

[@gabelomoteycreative]

mans even got rembrandt lighting from the sun too, he's too clean w it.

[@carstenschlag]

Haha I try my best, thanks man. Really appreciate you!

[@KyleApodaca]

That’s so strange…….I got the same thing in the mail…..

[@carstenschlag]

Damn they got you too! Wild lol

[@simplyfrank72]

Such a great helpful video. Was this AM or PM?

[@carstenschlag]

Thanks man! So glad it’s helpful! This was PM but AM would have looked exactly the same light wise. It really all depends on your scenes blocking. If the sun will be where you need in the am shoot then. In this case for it to hit across the yard it needed to be PM. Only difference is if you do shoot in the morning shoot your wide first and work in from there. Since the light will be best first in that scenario ( so backwards of what I said in the vid) hope that was helpful! Really appreciate you watching!

[@simplyfrank72]

@@carstenschlag thank you!!!

[@bykevinmack]

Great video per usual. What 15mm rod base and monitor and magic arm are you using?

[@carstenschlag]

Aye thanks brother!! My rods and baseplate are the small rig aluminum baseplate and 12inch rod kit. My monitor is the small hd 702 touch. And my monitor arm is the smallrig 9.8 inch magic arm. I wouldn’t recommend that magic arm tho, it’s ass haha. I just got a new one from Ifootage and it’s def the best one to get. Appreciate you watching man!!

[@bykevinmack]

@@carstenschlag Thanks for sharing, yeah i like that ifootage magic arm, looks serious. Would love to upgarde to SmallHd for the El Zone exposure tool. Anyways, enough wanting, off to shoot a wedding. 🤙

[@carstenschlag]

The small hd monitor will be the best investment you ever make. Good luck with the wedding!!

[@ReidWilliamson]

Are you using any pro mist filters on the GMaster?

[@carstenschlag]

Yeah forgot to add that, I used a 1/4th black satin. Appreciate you watching Reid!!

[@malc0]

Niceee!

[@carstenschlag]

Ayee thanks my guy!! Appreciate you

[@alexbarnes]

whats the bar holding the negative fill up?

[@carstenschlag]

Haha It’s literally just a audio boom pole. I use them a lot on run and gun gigs or travel shoots to hang rags instead of speed rail since it collapses down so small and is way easier to transport than long metal pipe lol. Appreciate you watching Alex!

[@TuryatungaIvan]

first viewer

[@carstenschlag]

Let’s gooo!!! Appreciate you!

[@Project_2501]

Bro! You're lying about how you actually lit the wide shot at 1:05. I can see it and know what you did there! What gives it away is not only the fill that all of a sudden comes from the left onto her entire body, lighting it to a degree that would not have been acheivable when placing the muslin out of the frame, so you had to go up close and follow her movement and mask it in post. And I can prove it with the absolute lack of movement in the background except for two tiny things you missed. There is something flying through the top right third of the frame of the wide shot, with weird choppy interruptions - that's where it moves in and out of the mask overlay. And the window obove her head - first it opens as if sped up in a weird motion and then you can see somebody's arm coming out of it and its movement is also super choppy and stops super abrubtly. You are aware that you can go frame by frame in a KZbin video, aren't you? Also she is slightly out of focus and there is artifacts around her and a weird blur when wakling out of the frame, so she is likely masked as well. So it is obvious that this is a composit shot. A totally legit and creative technique and used thousands of times before. The question only is, why not tell us? Why lie about it and say you didn't modify at all? I saw that there was something fishy right away.

[@carstenschlag]

Hey man! First off, really appreciate you watching and watching so thoroughly lol. Honestly I wish I knew how to do vfx but i would have literally no idea how to do what you are saying. What you are seeing in the Change of contrast is when we back out our big neg we obviously will get more fill. All that is hitting her is just the sun, that’s why timing wides is so important so you can get polished looking lighting without actually lighting it. The thing that flew through was a bird lol. The weird choppy interruptions may be from KZbin compression (honestly I still don’t see anything there). The blur you are seeing when she walks out of frame is there, but it’s because like I have talked about in my color grading videos I like to add blur and vignette to the edges of my frame to give more vintage lens character when shooting on super clean glass. Also she is slightly out of focus, I can give you that haha that was just bad operating on my part. If you still don’t believe me, shoot me your email and I’ll send you the log clip. I’d never lie to you, I promise! Appreciate you!

[@camslam717]

Umm pretty sure we’re moving. The sun isn’t moving lol. Sorry to burst your bubble but the sun is the center of attention.

[@carstenschlag]

Lol Sorry Mr science! To my eye looks like the suns moving to me 🤷‍♂️

[@Javisphotos]

Sorry to burst YOUR bubble, but the sun IS in fact moving, at approximately 448,000 miles per hour. If you’re going to be a smartass, you should at least be smart.

[@camslam717]

Loved the video breakdown dude! Really love those shots. The mail was a pretty funny plot twist.

[@sputnickers]

Einstein argued against Galileo and Copernicus (and even Ptolemy) by stating that each and every point is a valid center of the universe.

[@carstenschlag]

Haha thanks big dawg! Appreciate you watching

[@WillJauregui]

this video wouldve been great in 4K

[@carstenschlag]

Haha I agree, I shot it in 4k and uploaded it in 4k. idk why it didn't post in 4k. Really Appreciate you still sticking with it in 1080 Will!