Five Basic Lighting Principles

In this video, Chuck Peters provides a quick overview of five basic lighting principles you can use to improve the quality of your video:

  • Three-point lighting setup
  • Setting the mood with shadows
  • Hard versus soft lighting
  • Avoiding hot spots when shooting people with glasses, bald heads, or dark skin
  • Lighting the whole shot

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