Top 10 Lighting Mistakes Beginners Make

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00:00 Intro
00:36 Introducing "Lighting Mastery"
1:05 1 - Overexposed Background
2:01 2 - Flat Image
3:32 3 - Incorrect Mood
5:10 4 - Overusing Hard Light
7:16 5 - Not Enough Light
8:42 6 - Not Lighting Spaces
9:52 7 - No Background Separation
10:54 8 - Overexposed Skin Tones
12:52 9 - Wrong Color Temperature
14:26 10 - No Color Contrast
15:25 Final Thoughts
15:45 What's Inside "Lighting Mastery"?

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Thank your for this great Video! 1. Overexposes Background 2. Flat Image 3. Incorrect mood 4. Overusing Hard Light 5. Not enough Light 6. Not lighting spaces 7. No Background Separation 8. Overexposed skin tones 9. Wrong color temperature 10 No color Contrast

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Very nicely done as usual, incredible color demonstration of each topic. I don’t make those mistakes. I make other mistakes - my most recent was skipping the Phil light in an interview, sticking with just two lights. This illustrates a point: many times due to budget or time, I don’t get the perfect lighting and say that’s good enough. This gets pretty so philosophical. Will save it for another video… Great job guys!

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The IRE tip for skintones it's misleading at best imo. It really depends on the gamma curve you're using to record the image, if I remember correctly, in order to have a clean image in post from a Slog2 gamma, you should expose skin tones between 65 and 80 IRE; many other gammas such as Clog require different expousures for a propper correction in post

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