Lighting Exercise 1

Below are 6 exercises to help improve your lighting.

Lighting Exercises

Please record the following set-ups. For your subject you could use someone sitting at a desk or two people standing exchanging dialogue.

1. Light a shot with colour balance of 5600k

2. Light a shot with colour balance of 3200k
   
   
3. Light a shot with a strong back light or Kicker.
   
   
4. Light a shot with an approximate 2:1 contrast ratio on the subjects face.
   
   
5. Light a shot with a soft natural lit appearance.
   
   
6. Light a shot with a hard artificial lit appearance.

All shots must be well composed, in focus and correctly exposed.