August 11, 2018

Lighting Tips to Help You Survive Your Next Outdoor Shoot

The sun can be a wild beast. Here are a few ways you can tame it.

For some filmmakers, shooting outdoors can be a real challenge. That’s mostly due to the fact that the sun, even though it’s providing plenty of free, constant light, can be incredibly difficult to control. But instead of going outside like some pseudo-gothy socially awkward weirdo named V when she was 16 years old, you can learn a few easy and cheap techniques that allow you to use the sun to light better external scenes. In this video, Aidin Robbins offers up a few tips that require only a few very inexpensive modifiers, no additional lighting needed.

Modifiers

Light modifiers are an essential piece of gear when lighting a scene. Reflectors, bounce boards, silks, flags, you name it, they can all help you shape and control light on the cheap. You can get yourself a 5-in-1 reflector, which is somewhere in the ballpark of $20 to $50 depending on the size, and that’ll give you, you guessed it, 5 different kinds of modifiers in one:

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Source: NoFilmSchool