Thank you for all your lessons man, I really love the way you explain/breakdown the content to understand the way the shots are framed/lit.

Haha wow thank you so much!! That means a lot!

Haha thanks so much man! The Patreon is coming soon mind you ;) but that doesn't mean my content on here will change! :) thanks so much for your support!

@@RobEllisCinematographer I'll be on it, man. Very much worth it. The effort shows and it is much appreciated.

@@RobEllisCinematographer Hey where can I find your Patreon? I‘d LOVE to join!

@@oskarneftel3756 thanks Oskar! It's coming soon :)

Exactly :) it's all well and good getting lucky, but if you put enough planning in and you're aware of how light works, you're in a much better position for those spur-of-the-moment shots to happen in the first place. Thanks so much for watching and I'm glad the points made in the video resonated with you! :)

Lol same here!!!

Thank you both so much!! Hope the video was helpful in some way :)

You all should really stop dropping stuff. Who is going to pay for all those repairs? No but seriously, great channel! I finished this video like "OMG, too short!" *looks at duration* O.O 22 minutes? Ohh, so this is how time travel feels.

Absolutely, shooting with only natural light can teach you so much about light! Thank you so much and I'm happy the video inspired you! :)

Thank you so much for the kind words!! Super happy you're still finding it useful after all this time. I would love to cover this topic again at some point!

Thanks so much! :) hope it's helpful!!

Haha wow thanks Tyler! Let me know if it was helpful!! :)

@@RobEllisCinematographer It definitely was! I’m trying to shoot a feature this coming year and I want to use as much natural light as possible. I wish I had a dp who understood what you do! I’ll have to study up on all your videos...

Wow thank you so much!! So happy you think that! :)

Thank you Jeremy! I find it difficult to really take anything in myself when videos are too fast paced, so I'm sort of creating what I want to see - if that makes sense! I'm just glad that others feel the same way! Thanks so much for your kind words :)

Absolutely! And with the affordability of good cameras these days it's easier than ever to capture amazing looking images with a little bit of planning! Thanks so much for the kind words Emil, I appreciate it! :)

Super happy about that! :)

@@RobEllisCinematographer thanks for making this! #CinematographyGoals

Thank you so much, really! It's hard to tell when you're editing and hearing your own voice over and over again haha, so really, that feedback means a lot! :)

I'm happy they've inspired you, that's all I can hope to do with these videos! Thank you so much! :)

Thanks so much Luican, happy to know you're learning from my videos! :)

Thanks so much Edward!

And thanks for watching Armaan, I appreciate it! :)

Absolutely! Thanks so much for watching! :)

Thank you so much, such a lovely thing to say! KZfaq is absolutely fantastic and you can get so much information on here that you just wouldn't have had access to 10 or 15 years ago - but I do find a lot of popular image making content is very much gear and/or personality focused, which is great, but what I'm really trying to do with these videos is show thought processes and the possibilities, (which includes the possibilities that gear brings!), so that viewers can go away and think about their own ways of doing things, and by extension, making the most of their gear and equipment - so I hope that's coming through in the videos! That's not to say there aren't amazing content creators all over the platform, because there definitely is! And yeah, technical aspects are important, but it's more about how you're using those things to your advantage, rather than buying into something purely because it's "better"! Great to hear about the improvement in your work, it's great to look back at how you've improved and even better to be able to analyse WHY you've improved, as it shows you're understanding more about the way you create and what works! Totally agree with "feeling" it rather than concretely knowing it - that's essentially how I work! It's good to have a base understanding of the technicalities and why you would do something a certain way, for you to then break the rules and feel your way through it, absolutely. I'm jabbering now and I don't know if any of that made sense, but I think we're on the same wavelength haha! ;) Thank you so much for the kind words!! :)

So happy to hear my videos have helped you improve, thank you so much!! Glad I could help! :D

Totally agree! And helps to inform how you use artificial lighting too! Thanks man!! :)

Thanks so much Rich! :)

Thank you so much! More to come! :)

Haha thank you so much, I really appreciate it! :)

Thank you so much! :) I think they're both exciting in their own ways, it's definitely more satisfying when natural light plays ball and gives you an amazing image though!

And I'm grateful for your support! :) thanks so much!

Wow thank you so much!! :)

Thanks so much Albert! :)

Thanks so much! :)

Thank you so much! :)

Thank you for watching! Super happy that got across in the video :)

Aah I wouldn't go that far haha! But I appreciate the kind words, thanks so much! :)

Thank you so much, very happy to know the ideas are communicated well, even to different languages!! :)

Thanks Josh! :)

Thank you!! :)

Thank you! :D

I have, and although I'm very thankful and happy knowing even one person would want something like that (thank you!!), it would probably be quite risky for me financially, as I have no idea how many other people would buy it. I've briefly looked into making an app in the same vein (not as nice as a physical book, I know) as that could be a good way to put a lot of these ideas in some sort of order, be easily accessible and not cost as much to produce. I'm also going to embed the Lighting for Cinema A - Z series on my website in a more ordered way once a few more are complete! I appreciate your kind words and I'm glad you're finding my videos so useful! :)

​@@RobEllisCinematographer I can totally understand that. Maybe I´m just a little old-fashioned. I have read great books about scripting, continuity and other topics that have helped me more than hours of youtube. But most lighting books have been disappointing. You`re a good artist and teacher, you`ll find your way!

Thanks Roberto and thank you for sticking with my channel! :)

Thank you so much!

Thank you so much Ben!! Glad it was helpful! :)

Woah I wouldnt go that far haha! :) thank you so much!! :)

Glad it was helpful, thanks Jacob! :)

You're amazing for watching!! Thank you so much!

Thank YOU for watching! :)

Thank you for watching! And I'm glad I've filled that gap - I don't often see videos talking about the whys and hows of learning about these things, so I'm just trying to add my input! :)

Thank you, glad you're enjoying it!! :)

Thank you so much!! :)

Always good to have flags and modifiers to hand though! ;) And thank you so much for sticking with my channel, I appreciate it! :) Absolutely - what you learn about natural light informs the basis of whatever you do with artificial light, knowing how light naturally works puts you in a better position to recreate it artificially and have your light make more sense! Yup negative fill is super super useful and like you said, subtracting light is just as important as adding it, especially when you're shooting using all this light that you have no other control over! Thanks again, hope you're well! :)

Thanks man! More to come in future! :)

Thank you so much, it turned out beautifully! :)

Thank you so much! :D love from the UK!

Thank you Lewis! :) Thanks for sticking with the channel!

@@RobEllisCinematographer I just got my first full time gig as a videographer, a big part of that is because of how I have been styling my professional work after watching your videos during quarantine. Thank you so much Rob!

Wow man that actually warms my heart to hear how much my videos have helped you! Congrats on the gig :)

@@RobEllisCinematographer Thank you! Can't wait to learn more from you.

Thanks so much! :)

Thanks so much Filip! Glad you're enjoying my videos! :D

Absolutely!

Haha! :D it wasn't my original intention for it to feel that way, but I tried that lovely track and it worked beautifully! So I'm totally happy you mentioned that! :)

Thanks so much for watching! :)

Thank you John, happy it's helpful! :)

I don't own a Pocket 4k! ;) but regardless, lighting and exposure generally follow similar rules whatever camera you're shooting on! Although there are definitely certain tricks you can use to get the best image out of certain camera systems :)

@@RobEllisCinematographer iso 400 or 3200 so many debates

Thank you so much! :)

@@RobEllisCinematographer no, thank you)

Thanks so much!! Hope you had a good Christmas! :)

That's it! You gain a better understanding of how light works, how light is shaped, how you can shape light yourself - which can go on to inform how you light something when it comes to using artificial lighting. That's great news that it improved your work, would love to see film! :)

@@RobEllisCinematographer it’ll be out sometime in 2021! Your videos are the best!

Looking forward to it! Thanks so much!! :)

Glad it's useful man! :) it can be tough! Learning to use natural light definitely benefits you in those situations where you have no other choice though, and helps you to understand light better overall, which in turn improves how you light with artificial lights. All comes back round in a circle! :D

@@RobEllisCinematographer yes, exactly!

Haha sorry mate, it was all the lighting's doing I promise! Awesome, glad you learned something and I'm glad it's got some views over, I will absolutely keep featuring your music videos! ;)

@@RobEllisCinematographer Haha thanks mate! We'd better make some new ones!

:D :D

Thank you! I actually meant to add that to the video, slipped my mind! The app was called Sun Position - it's just a demo version from the Play Store :)

Not yet! ;) I may have a few things in the works, but I'll always be making content like this for free on KZfaq :) thank you!

Thanks so much! :) yup I used a manual follow focus!

Thanks Matt! :) I use a Hoya IR cut filter - been meaning to sort the OLPF for a good few years, just never got round to it!

Absolutely! And even if you're not blessed with the privilege of time on a shoot - plan in such a way that you're more likely, or able, to capture that perfect moment :) bloody love Lubezki and that statement is very true, the right light can make any place look beautiful! I was using a manual follow focus, 18mm set to f4 - f5.6, so that I wasn't battling a super shallow focus and could change focus as I went smoothly! Thank you so much for all the kind comments and thanks so much for sticking with my channel, I really appreciate it! :)

I mostly suck at focus shifts on moving shots and beaten by hunting or get some unstable shots while using manual FF. Would you ever like to do a tutorial on managing focus at different situations?

Absolutely :)

A lot of contrast is always great for black and white, although it depends on the look you want for the film! Have a look at the locations you're shooting in, see how the light and weather at different times of day effects them, take lots of black and white photos, see what works for what you have in mind! :)

@@RobEllisCinematographer Thank you Rob, merry Christmas!

Sigma 18-35 and Nikon 70-200 2.8 I believe :)

If you mean the Pier behind the gate it's the old Birnbeck Pier yeah :) we got permission to go over there and shoot part of a music video on it, good fun!

@@RobEllisCinematographer Thanks for reply! Ah man I love this place! I really like your style btw. So cool, you’re not that far from me!

Not often! I use a manual follow focus, or if it's tracking/gimbal shot I'll generally stick to the same lens-to-subject distance for the shot :)

@@RobEllisCinematographer Oh ok! That's pretty impressive coming from a lifelong DSLR person, someday I'll gather the courage to get into MFT type cameras I'm sure haha

Haha do it! :) I'm sure every new camera will have autofocus at some point anyway! :D

A lot of the basics can be found by searching the internet, but I do understand it can be a bit daunting and hard to know what to look for when you're just starting to learn! The way I learnt (and learn) about lighting is by going out and shooting - scrutinise your footage/photos, try and find out why some things look good and some things dont by studying what's happening in the scene, and you'll start looking up more things, learning more and implementing it in your work. That's the way I learn!

@@RobEllisCinematographer Right! Thanks a lot for the advice. It's encouraging to know it can be learnt in that way

Haha thank you so much! Bit longer than usual right?