Hi guys, I'm not very experienced in video things... I'm a musician who shoots his own videos (most of the time).
Since covid we've been doing live stream shows from our small home studio, and I'd like to improve the looks slightly. Have done a few different lighting schemes, but in general all lights (and the camera too) are hung from the ceiling to save precious floorspace in the our small home studio.
I've been mainly using tungsten colored LED bulbs inside home depot style work lights with paper towels clipped on the front for some diffusion. It works well enough and it's cheap. The camera is a sony A6500.
What I'd like is to get a lighting set up that helps the back wall of the studio appear a little darker. It's kind of busy background with guitars hanging on the wall and keyboards and stuff. So lighting the subjects while decreasing the light going to the background would help the look quite a bit i think.
So....is it possible to get narrower beams of diffused light from my work lights? or is a narrow beam of diffused light just an oxymoron? We've lit ourselves for other videos with some harder PAR style lights, but I don't think it's as flattering, though it does tend to minimize the background since the subject is lit so much brighter.
Any ideas? thanks in advance!
Geoff
PS - below is a quick sketch of the setup - performing towards the back of the room, with the camera roughly in the middle, and a (usually) 2 or 3 point lighting setup with the aforementioned renegade home depot lights. The room itself is about 10' x 14'
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Since covid we've been doing live stream shows from our small home studio, and I'd like to improve the looks slightly. Have done a few different lighting schemes, but in general all lights (and the camera too) are hung from the ceiling to save precious floorspace in the our small home studio.
I've been mainly using tungsten colored LED bulbs inside home depot style work lights with paper towels clipped on the front for some diffusion. It works well enough and it's cheap. The camera is a sony A6500.
What I'd like is to get a lighting set up that helps the back wall of the studio appear a little darker. It's kind of busy background with guitars hanging on the wall and keyboards and stuff. So lighting the subjects while decreasing the light going to the background would help the look quite a bit i think.
So....is it possible to get narrower beams of diffused light from my work lights? or is a narrow beam of diffused light just an oxymoron? We've lit ourselves for other videos with some harder PAR style lights, but I don't think it's as flattering, though it does tend to minimize the background since the subject is lit so much brighter.
Any ideas? thanks in advance!
Geoff
PS - below is a quick sketch of the setup - performing towards the back of the room, with the camera roughly in the middle, and a (usually) 2 or 3 point lighting setup with the aforementioned renegade home depot lights. The room itself is about 10' x 14'
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