I tend to light a lot of POC. Our skin absorbs some of the light and when lighting POC indoors, one of my favorite techniques is to use some sort of moisturizer or oil (preferably coconut oil) paired with small soft LEDs to add a bounce or reflection off of their skin and create depth to the shot.

Please never stop creating these videos. This is so helpful! 🙏🏼

LOOK MOM! MY HANDS ARE IN A 4 MINUTE FILM SCHOOL! 3:28

the production quality on these videos is WOW!

This is a great training, although from a grade standpoint, the final result seems kind of overexposed/lifted too much. Would have been nice to see the final corrected result.

Thank you Valentina, crew, and everyone at Aputure. These videos are a wealth of knowledge!

Valentina Vee and Wandering DP are making lighting entertaining, pretty sure they're single handedly leading the convo away from "buy this new camera" to "practice with your lights". I'd have to say my favorite lighting technique so far is upstage

absolutely fantastic video and information..... THANKS FOR SHARING!!!!!!!

Just last week I got the most basic, oddly flat looking shot when I was aiming to get a cinematic look. This is super useful, hope I can create more depth in my next try. This KZfaq channel teaches me more than the actual film school

The look is very nice. I like this diffused and soft light. Seeing the before and after and following you step by step is instructive. To get a soft effect I often use bouncing the light. Congratulations also to the model who is really spot on for this type of spot (face, gestures, colors). Brava Valentina, very good!

Love this! People always focus on dramatic scenes, not enough focus on high-key lighting, thanks Valentina! One of my favourite techniques for interior daylight scenes is to shoot on an overcast day. That way you get a nice even soft light coming in from outside, that is consistent throughout the day, making you less worried about things like the position of the sun, but still able to use natural light to motivate your scene.

My favorite technique for lighting interior daylight scenes is bouncing a light at the ceiling or wall to boost ambience with the iso/ND as low/dark as possible without being moody. Then adding a key and back light. Typically it’s because of DSLR, and I don’t have access to as many lights as you all, nor the dynamic range to create directional sunlight outside the window like this. However, as my projects and budgets increase, I’ll be adding to my arsenal. These videos are helping me land more work, as I’m increasing my quality. By the way, she is a great host...and her personality makes the videos so easy to watch and understand! I’ve subscribed! I’d love to win this 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

Always impressed by Valentina's cool composure and fun energy while hosting these segments and working the sets. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

This is SO COOL!!!!! Oh man I can't wait to be in this scene!!!!!!! Less than a year to film school. SO hyped

Thank you for the detailed visuals. One favorite technique I find satisfying is book lighting. So soft!

I'm a HUGE fan of backlighting. Big soft source behind (echo/mimic a large window behind as the possible source), and a large bounce back to the actor (just a large reflective surface - bleached muslin, or even large foamcore - whatever you've got that is a large even surface so that it's soft). In general, I like lighting "spaces, not faces" but this looks SO good to me when it's a more intimate setting rather than a big open space. Add lighting for the room as desired - this isn't an interview, so we obviously need to appropriately see the surroundings as well.

I personally really like the more moody (early) daylight interior scenes where you use some haze, imitating the sun with COB lights or LED panels outside the window and then you just use some light curtains to diffuse the light a little bit. And use negative fill on the other side to make it a bit more dramatic.

Valentina is a beast! Such a great host and drops so much knowledge. Big fan of this series. Keep ‘en coming.

Excellent tutorial. Sharing with my Facebook groups. Thank you Valentina!

C70 has build-in NDs on 2,4,6,8 and 10 stops. You may turn it in settings

Great tips! I always like to blast light into the white ceilings to make a massive bounce source. Helps lift the total exposure of the room when needed.

All that beautiful, inSANEly good lighting in a beautiful room… Completely let down by a bad grade.

I love book lighting high key interior scenes. I’ll key with light bounced off a large (6x6 or larger if possible) muslin or ultra bounce and break it with silent full grid. I’ll double break the light with another layer of 1/4 silent grid if the light has enough push. I’ll use 4x4’ floppies to contain the spill from the open ends of the book light set up, and I’ll cut the top and bottom of the book light’s front element with duvetyne to contain spill on the walls and floor around the subject. I’ll use a similar set up right behind the camera as front fill if it’s needed. And I’ll backlight with something like a covered wagon behind the subject. Fred Murphy used this technique to light The Good Wife and it creates a really soft look. It’s really similar to cove lighting. I ACed for Fred on Good Wife and he used this technique in almost every scene. It created consistency throughout the series. I love this technique, especially with punchy lights like the 600d and 300d II.

I love this look!! For me I have often just used a couple of lights, one with a softbox, and the other bouncing off of something. I think this was way more beautiful and something that I would want to do if I had more gear. Thank you for these masterclasses. I'm studying film at a university and I've learned more about lighting from these videos than from my professors!

Greate work thank you Valentine! and the actreess was also amazing

Awesome video! One useful technique that for lighting daylight interiors (especially close-ups) is the book light. I love the soft falloff and the cinematic look it creates. Sometimes a bed sheet and a some foam board is all the modifiers I have, but even those simple pieces of “gear” can create some amazing light.

I dig this series so far. Very educational. My last daylight lit scene gave me two issues to solve. 1. Clouds were moving through the area, changing the amount of light coming in constantly. 2.There was traffic noise from the intersection outside. My plan of attack was first to address the audio by placing a thick moving blanket on a stand in front of the window. Another one placed in front of the perpendicular wall out of shot. That brought the noise down enough. Then I stuck a reflector with the white side over the the blanket to simulate the now blocked window.Two of my LED light panels were set up to bounce off the reflector onto the spot where I was playing guitar. My ring light acted as a fill on the other side of the room. The key light was another LED light panel with barn doors to control the spill. Having the light stay consistent and the noise under control, allowed me to focus on playing music in the video.

duvetyne, floppys, blinds and bounced lighting is simply the best way for daylight. Really cool walkthrough

So believable the final product. Had I been an extra on set, I'd have gotten fired within minutes after reaching through the window for that cake. Great tutorial. One thing I enjoy about these vids is how you break them down showing why you did something which helps answer questions in my head.

The best asset of this channel is "valentina veeeeeee" ☺

Adding the second 600 outside was a bold touch. It's a luxury to have access to that much firepower, but knowing how to use it is still the key. I've been using a lot more flags and screens lately, and it has stepped up my game.

Very cool, helpful and useful! Many thanks to Valentina and Team! 🙏

I absolutely love lighting with practicals. I feel like they give depth and a more dynamic look to the film. They are often a bit too weak for daylight though, so I have to "boost" them, but I love having practicals in the frame. Keep these videos coming, these are perfect!

My favorite is the either the good old clamp light with a 300w bulb inside for those very dramatic nighttime shots, or a collapsible lantern softbox for high key situations.

Thanks for the step-by-step instructions, the explanation of gear used, and the segment near the end where we can see the additive contribution of each light. A great final product, as well!

This was very helpful. I am currently in film school and last semester I was lighting a lot with Godox and Mole Richardson lights, but this semester I have been using an Intellitech to emulate sunlight, then using LED panels as the fill and key.

This video is amazing! I really appreciate how you talk through your entire thought process out loud, it really helps me learn rather than the lights just being where they are.

This is so amazing, and so so sooo helpful! Valentina, you inspire me so much! You're insanely talented and know the craft so well, thank you for sharing all this information. Side note to the editor - I love your editing style so much and loove the small little details like the "Striking" text, you make the episode so much fun to watch! Keep up the incredible content A team!

I usually blow a bright light up in the seeling, using it as a large diffuser, combined with negative fill. Add some rim light and thats almost it.

Absolutely love watching these videos! So much amazing info + techniques, thank you guys for making them!!!!

Thank you. Very informative, and love how you did the drawing showing where the different lights are located, and what they do. Super!!!

This is what I love seeing. Most people who are just starting off feel limited to putting lights on stands. They aren’t used to studio spaces & mounting lights to the ceiling.

I think you hit the nail on the head with the added light through the window with sheer diffusion. I like using windows like that as my motivating source as much as possible and setting my camera to that exposure. Then I add a soft key, hair light, and bounce for fill if needed to make the talent pop. What I loved about your approach was the use of color in wardrobe and set design to really tie the piece together and make your subject stand out. Thank you for sharing your method.

Great job lighting that scene. That pro mist filter gives it a dream quality that I appreciate. For myself, however, I generally don't like shooting happy scenes. Not that I'm a dour person all the time, but I like moody scenes with soft light, negative fill to give the subject shape and a lot of practicals.

Probably the cutest informative video!

My favorite Indoor lighting is when I can put a silk on the window to let in a bit of natural indirect light, add light where I want it with a light dome, and have a couple of practical lights with some color. Sidus link makes that a fun thing to set up.

It would be sooooo sick if you guys offered the files for color grading! And then did contests for gear or something.

So much work to be put just for one camera angle. Imagine resetting everything for another few 🙂 thanks, guys! Great video

Thank you for sharing! I absolutely love playing with the bounce off of various objects to create dimension in a scene. Very fun to play with especially filming deeper skin tones.

I'm really into natural or motivated lights for indoors. There's an almost magic quality when you see a scene play out in an interior and you get lost in the scene, in the moment and you're not thinking about the lights because they've gone through great lengths to remove any feeling of artifice. Think Joker, The Farewell, Prisoners. Allowing theme to dictate the location and the location to dictate the lighting and trickling that down. I was floored particularly by Roger Deakin's self-made rigs for lighting the Bond Bar scene in Skyfall, and then just a super scaled up version of the same DIY rig for lighting fire in the exterior. Just impressive work all around!

i learn more watching you here than ive learned from anyone, anywhere else

Ive been studying light setting here alone and use it for small viral commercial for a year. So much helpful!

I love using china balls to light interiors and use them as practicals too :D

Great video. Valentina is an excellent teacher!

for daylight int I usually try to work with the windows as much as possible: punching very strong lights from them to create shapes in the rooms, if the scene needs to be diffused I try to only diffuse with curtains that also have shapes on them, really brings a lot of texture into it. lastly I usually flag some walls that are not in the frame to bring down the bounce from them as much as possible. but all of this is more for narrative and less for commercial stuff.

this is undoubtedly the best video that has been uploaded to this channel !! Thank you very much for sharing and explaining in detail, Greetings 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

A nice and simple setup. I like those. I often use big soft sources for this high key look, but try to keep some directionality to it with grids and flags to create more depth. Very similar to this setup.

I use much of the natural sunlight (also because of budget) and many reflectors. Most of the time I add some hard lights for rim light. Great video, thank you so much!

I love how the dreamy feel was created!! These videos are so helpful, thank you!!

Great video Valentina . Excellent tutorial. I love using cove lighting which gives such a beautiful look for interviews.

Great! Thank you Valentina and the whole Aputure crew. I’ve learned so much with this video and I can’t wait until put it in practice!

Thank you Valentina and Aputure! This helped me a lot!

Awesome Video ! Super thanks to the A Team for making these videos ! When doing a run and gun shoot, I prefer to light interior scenes by bouncing the lights 45- 90degree to a ceiling to emulate everyday lighting. Hiding the light at a good wall intersection and bouncing the lights to a ceiling helps in bringing up the exposure a little bit and evening out shadows. Further more to create depth, cutting out unnecessary lights using a negative fill can really create contrast and add more interest to the shot.

Woo you guys nailed the timing on this video for me. I have a shoot like this on Friday!

9:21, person tapes the end of the pole sticking out. NOICE

SUPER HELPFUL video. I look forward to more! Combining diffusion and multiple fill lights (decreasing as you wrap around) allows you to get some REALLY nice falloff on the talents face, it's my go-to.

I like a bit of warmth to compliment the cool daylight tones. So I like having warm practicals inside. Sometimes I'll ND my exposure down to where the practicals aren't blowing out too.

A negative fill is always very good, but also making it soft (using a softbox or diffusion for example) makes it even more dreamy.

Was it intentional for the final result to have such a flat and desaturated grade? Kinda looks like the Canon's log

Amazingly great tutorials, thanks for sharing these real life instances on how we can be able to work to achieve cinematic results with affordable gear. Valentina I love the way you present the task and how to solve it meticulously. I have been using the sun light to bounce off the mirror board, as the natural light travels through the window and diffused by silk on to the set where I wrapped unbleached muslin to the left of the camera and to the right a negative fill with mover's black blanket to give the set contrast. Sure I would love to own any of those lights to add to my gear which will help me achieve better results when lighting a set.

creating a beautiful image and a compelling story is such an intentional process - thanks for sharing these insights

Just wow, an info packed video. Thank you

I have learned a lot. Thank you for this great content.

Thanks Valentina and crew this was extremely helpful. I usually have some astra tubes rigged to the ceiling, a 300dii with a dome for key light, 300d with a light dome for fill and I always have my trusty Philip hue light bulbs for practicals in the background 🙂

Always learn a little something from these videos, thank you!

Beyond amazing work Valentina and the crew!!! What a high level product you guys put out. 👌🏽📽🎞👏🏼

killer work! thanks so much valentina & co, keep hustling!

Wonderfully made video Valentina. You explain everything so well. You are the best

Love this. Watched it four times so far and learned something more each time

Great informative video! I love your step-by-step lighting tutorials. My favorite way to light these types of scenes is by using bounce from white walls or bounce cards. I like to keep a soft look that really brings out the happiness of the scene.

Thank you to the team Aputure for making such a detailed video. I learned a lot from it ^^

Awesome work as always!! Very clear and easy to learn! Thank You Valentina V!

Wow, that was an amazing tutorial. Thanks!

Small space, huge history, well done!!

Motivate everything by the windows (light through windows with some kind of diffusion). If there's not enough light inside « Push » the light by adding sources in a corner or over the frame. Sculpt the other side with negative fill (the closer , the better). Use a bounce to wrap the light on the front the face to add up to your key light. To finish it up add haze to give some texture to the image and voila. You got something pretty moody.

Keep doing what you are doing!!! BIG THANKS

Beautiful video and beautiful tutorial

Great video! Quality education and great walkthrough. Not to be that person, but just reminders for all of us grips: 9:21 Knuckles on the RIGHT, and don't have your gobo arm sticking out like that guy set it. There are ways to adjust stand and arm so its out of body and eye level; or tennis ball it.

Awesome tips 👌 Valentina u r bubbly look was good 👍

Another great video, Valentina! I use very different lights to yours for indoor lighting out of budget constraints. I recently started shooting lights through large diffusion silks which has been working in dark rooms really well. I as bounce lights off the same silks to get the results I need.

The best technique for indoor is maybe the negative fill/flags/floppies. The indoors atmospheres can be so different, the range is huge. But the windows and bounce of light on anything in the room can change the expected look.

Helpful lighting technique for cinematic look. Thanks! My favorite technique for lighting interior daylight scene would be: 1. light one big main source using aputure lighting behind a person to create morning light. 2. Bouncing off of an aputure lighting to ceiling to create ambience light, 3. diffused light to create soft and 3d effect for side light . 4. Put green plants to create shadow using aputure lighting.

Wow. So detail.. i like this tutorial..👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Awesome! Thanks for sharing.

I love that you used THAT clip from Mandy for colored lighting. For interior day lighting I love using shadow to create depth.

this was super helpful, thank you! i'm a big fan of highkey daylight shots using natural light as the source but i have 9 windows on the sunny side of my apartment so shaping all that light is proving very difficult for me! but these videos always give so much insight. thank you!

Great content! I always struggle getting things to look more subtle. I usually will bounce the light from the celling or adjacent wall.

I want thank you for big effort ❤️❤️❤️, very well done tutorial

I love these scene set up videos!

Hello I am from Portugal and I want to thank you for all the knowledge you transmit through your videos, thank you very much, continue the good work you have done