Overpower the SUN with LED lights

[@TheSteadiMatt]

"Film is forever, pain is temporary" Me as a Steadicam operator: Yes Solid video! Always love your content!

[@DirectorIllyRock]

Always teaching. Always learning!

[@Y_O_H_I]

Every time I read a magazine I think about this, thank you so much for sharing this important information with us!!!!!!

[@daniel.lopresti]

Cool idea for sure! It's the kind of "unrealistic" lighting that often gives a green-screen vibe due to not representing the effects of natural light. In which case green screen probably is a better idea after all. I wonder if some HDR (the photography "micro-contrast" HDR effect), or some sort of unsharp mask was used? I see some sort of halo around the actor when he moves across the sky - something which is a dead giveway to me of that effect, and that's on still photography.

[@EpicLightMedia]

No “HDR effects” but yes sharpening was used and we noticed the halo when the actor is walking, after the video was published. That happened on the last layer of effects we added to give this the extra punch you can see in edited photos. If the video hadn’t been published I would redo that last bit of grade to get rid of the halo.

[@daniel.lopresti]

@@EpicLightMedia ok cool, good to know! Was just out of curiosity btw, thanks for the info :)

[@vincentr-fr]

You can try to use a net diffuser as a background light reducer, it might be invisible with a high aperture

[@Karen-L126]

This is brilliant!! I have literally pondered how to get really the punchy editorial look I see in flash photography, and your clean plate idea is such a great hack. Thank you for sharing!

[@Visethelegend]

As a non subscriber I just wanted to say that this was just a recommendation video, not because I’m subscribed and totally not because I get notified with each new video

[@Mr_Kenneth]

Reminds me of Michael Bays work on Transformers - super bright lights and reflectors. Legendary lighting work. Hey how about a video on action movie blockbuster lighting, horror or romcom. I would so love to know how to light a Hallmark movie - always so cheery

[@dude3d]

Oh.. great video with a lot of information. Thank you very much 🫡

[@theCFXchannel]

This is sooooooo great! You're one of the most innovative and inspiring channels on KZbin!!!

[@FilmFlab]

Make a Epic Light U! I would pay for online courses created by you guys! I have learned so much from this channel.

[@EpicLightMedia]

Maybe some day!

[@janoti6073]

I might have misunderstood something but why not use bounces, sun reflectors and mirrors? Setting up this many lights seems a bit overcomplicated 😅

[@daniel.lopresti]

Those lights, so close-up, are adding much more level than simply reflecting sunlight would (unless you have some sort of parabolic reflector to concentrate the sun's rays - and probably incinerate the actor!).

[@martinekwall4671]

It’s crazy how much watts is needed for video and on the flip side it’s incredible how much light output we get from flashes like 500W. Could you do a similar set up but at an angle with sun out of the frame an diffusing the sun and diffusing the key light as well for a less demanding watts set up? How big would a diffuser need to be to cover the bike and talent and how much less of light could we get away with in a less intense scenario like that?

[@real.samad_]

Why did you not choose to diffuse the key light? Like half a stop diffusion or something?

[@johnnyinterval]

oh, and the peter thing, super lowkey funny!

[@drmatthewhorkey]

hahahahhahaha when Alan fell down

[@blagoyvalchev4714]

Would you get same effect if you use white reflections instead of LED lights?

[@PMDRIVE1]

Could you do something similar with mirrors?

[@EpicLightMedia]

Yes mirrors would probably look very similar.

[@lexaplu]

Why not use mirrors?

[@Maxversionrock]

what about mirrors?

[@UXXV]

Absolutely love the content!

[@Visethelegend]

This makes me remember when Corridor Digital wanted to outpower the sun xD

[@markusjager6011]

Great Video! You could have used even two more 1200s 😉.

[@monztermovies]

Very cool guys! 😎 so cool, I won’t even be a turd and bring up Lewis Potts. 🤣

[@Composit.Design]

This is a vibe

[@zakariaabed3593]

What nD were used pls ?

[@EpicLightMedia]

The built in ND in the camera

[@johnnyinterval]

so much bread! I need the aperture hook up! I got a few, But geesh!

[@ejv1227]

Hey man you want two more of those bikes. I'm an in Phoenix as well.

[@mosesvyande6135]

Amazing content

[@3DPI67]

You overpowered the SUN🤯

[@UnknownUser-pf9rk]

What about just a mirror?

[@EpicLightMedia]

Mirrors are good but you can’t just put them anywhere you want. There were some lights angles in this set up that were impossible to do with mirrors

[@FharishAhmedPortfolio]

Mind Blown!

[@seanlefloch]

You can easily recreate the punchy look on film with around $15k in lighting gear 😅. I meant this as satire, but when you compare that to what Hollywood uses, that’s literally one third the cost of a single Arri HMI. Crazy.

[@marin_real_estate_photography]

I took your advice of not subscribing to your channel and instead, I subscribed to my own channel. I watched a couple of my videos, and then promptly unsubscribed. For those of us who aren't able to snag a 1200D and a couple of 600-watt LED lights, maybe taking a page out of the late, great Dean Collins repertoire would be good and use mirrors / silver reflectors. (And yes, I name drop Dean Collins to make myself look smarter than I really am.)

[@monisiany]

HDRx much easier

[@pepekai]

Sun sandwich on Tatooine 😂

[@hackur]

These videos should be getting more likes.

[@J_HNP]

Haha, This is the opposite if “cinematic,” but love the content.

[@fullshotmediaug]

How can i subscribe more than 2 times

[@robwhitmore3040]

So my initial guess was that you just flipped it/faked the sun. Can't you just hang a big bright light pointed at the camera to act as your 'sun' and then use a scrim on the actual sun behind the camera?

[@andersistbesser]

Thats a pretty expensive setup for speedlight brightness🤣 very well done anyway😊

[@wilcurran3377]

HMI's are silly expensive, but the $11k worth of LED's in this vid ain't no joke either ;)

[@WhySteve]

"How to film breaking bad desert scenes".

[@thomasmanning9111]

So true!!!!

[@WhySteve]

@@thomasmanning9111 When are you posting content on your channel so we can unsubscribe?

[@SlamBradley]

Love the content. So glad I'm NOT subscribed. 😂

[@DJILLEE]

I'm subscribed because NO ONE TELLS ME WHAT TO DO!!

[@mtklaric]

could have just used a simple mirror to bounce the sun...

[@luanzondervan7402]

You guys did a good job at recreating the look but honestly it looks horrendous 😂

[@daniel.lopresti]

It's an acquired taste, for sure ;) I think in Hollywood, they would film on a longer lens, and put a giant "scrim" (black fabric which simply drops the level - similar to ND) in the background.

[@hvshtagbeatz7036]

A mirror would’ve probably produced better results

[@mrfryfilmguy]

Good

[@snilrach]

Pedro pascal lookalike

[@kop0164]

when you have the budget to handle 3 people along side with light and budget is 100k per day you can create and rent those but people like us paid 10$ a day long shooting will not able to efford the light only ,let alone the camera and utensils. Bitter Truth, nothing to do

[@tombuck]

This is brilliant. Unsubbed.

[@martinlibby]

This was so helpful that I unsubscribed 👍🏻

[@Mulnader]

Don't tell me what to do! I'd subscribe second time on top of my first subscribe if I could

[@laspb1284]

It's a fail, sory

[@EpicLightMedia]

I thought it looked super 😎

[@JanuszMe]

Unsubscribing!