CHAPTER 7

Lighting

 

 

 

PART ONE Physical Factors of Lighting

As cameras improve in their capacity to accommodate existing conditions, the pressure on the videographer to create high-impact, eye-catching pictures increases. The successful videographer must demonstrate the twin abilities to accommodate existing illumination in the field and to augment it for effect quickly, inexpensively, and without support from a large-scale production crew.

No matter what the content of the field-based video footage may be, the essential problem is that each story, program, or segment requires the integration of video materials with those gathered or produced elsewhere. From location to location, flesh tones must remain the same. They must not slip into the ...

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