Practical Lighting
Team Deakins
James Ellis Deakins
4.9 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2020
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Episode 4: PRACTICAL LIGHTING - James and Roger discuss practical lighting - what it means, the additional challenges and why you might prefer to use practicals for a scene. https://www.rogerdeakins.com/episode-4/
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| 0:00.0 | Hi and welcome to the Team Deacons podcast. This podcast is a dialogue between |
| 0:10.8 | Roger and James Deacons starting with a submitted question or topic, and |
| 0:15.4 | ending who knows where. |
| 0:18.5 | We will also be joined by guests for some topics. |
| 0:21.5 | If you'd like to submit a question, email it to webmaster at Roger deacons.com. |
| 0:30.1 | And today we've got a question from the website, |
| 0:32.9 | from a website member on practical lights. |
| 0:36.1 | So we're gonna talk about practical lights today. |
| 0:39.1 | Raj, why don't you say what practical lights are? |
| 0:41.6 | It's hard to know that definition, really that definition really because you know it's like |
| 0:46.9 | any light that is really any light source that looks like it's light in the set I guess is a practical light I mean you could say it was |
| 0:55.6 | you usually refer to kind of table lights or you know tungsten lights or fluorescent lights or something they've been put in |
| 1:03.9 | that and normally artificial lights but I mean tactical lights you could also say |
| 1:08.1 | daylight is a practical it's practical light source and so you know that then relates to the windows and |
| 1:16.1 | size of windows and where they are and so what but a lot of times when I think of |
| 1:21.1 | practical lighting I think about an object that's in the frame |
| 1:27.3 | that's also giving light out. |
| 1:29.4 | So therefore, it would be a lamp on a table. |
| 1:31.5 | Yeah, it could equally be the window. |
| 1:33.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:34.6 | If you're using practical light sources, |
| 1:36.5 | you could say people usually refer |
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