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Barn Doors & Hard Light: Aputure Barn Doors for COB Lights
What is hard light and when would you want to use it when shooting video? What are barn doors? In this episode, we have a look at creating hard light with barn doors and when you might want to put this hard light to use to make more cinematic looking film.
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Links to gear discussed and used to shoot this episode:
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Aputure Barn Doors for COB120 and 300 Lights
Amazon: http://geni.us/pNL4W
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Aputure COB 120d - This is one of my main workhorse lights. Not a week passes where I don’t use it for at least one shoot
Amazon: https://geni.us/DQo5
B&H: https://bhpho.to/2icq36p
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Aputure COB 120t - When I don’t have to match existing light, I prefer to use this as my key light. Really nice, warm skin tones
Amazon: https://geni.us/5FAWN
B&H: https://bhpho.to/2yUWD4z
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Aputure COB300d - This is the big gun. I don’t use this often, but when I need a lot of light, this is the instrument of choice
Amazon: https://geni.us/3CIisq
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Aputure Fresnel Lens - This is the original focusing lens for the COB lights. If you need one right away, this’ll do the job. If you can wait a bit, Aputure announced at NAB last month that they’ll have an improved version available this year (fewer light leaks, sturdier build).
Amazon: https://geni.us/kFki
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Aputure Light Dome Soft Box - When I need a nice, soft light on the face of the talent in an interview or talking head video, this goes on the COB120 key light
Amazon: https://geni.us/S1bTFi
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Black Wrap Cinefoil - this is basically black aluminum foil that you can use to further shape light and block light leaks. Super useful to have on hand.
Amazon: https://geni.us/YVFn
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Soft Frost Gel - subtle way to soften the light just a touch
Amazon: https://geni.us/XQWyqbA
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Lupo DayLED Fresnel Light with Barn Doors - These are useful when I need hard light as well. I don’t have soft boxes for them so they’re not quite as versatile as the Aputure COBs, but really great lights with a super durable build.
650, 1000, & 2000 in daylight, tungsten, or bi-color
B&H: https://bhpho.to/2DtVJhQ
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Blackmagic design Ursa Mini Pro Cinema Camera - used for the talking head shots in this episode
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Sigma ART 24-70mm f/2.8 OS Lens (Canon EF Mount)
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Panasonic GH5 - Used for some of the product shots
Amazon: https://geni.us/yeBt
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Panasonic 12-35mm f/2.8 OIS Lens - incredibly versatile lens that is on the GH5 most of the time
Amazon: https://geni.us/8ED4tg
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Copyright 2018 by Curtis Judd
Music - MzA by Cary Judd, used with permission
Ethics statement: Some of the links above are Amazon.com, B&H Photo, or other affiliate links.
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