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Hi, Guy Cochran, here today. We're going to take a look at the Lowel
DVcreator kit. This is the base kit. This is the DVcreator Kit One, you can
expand on it and go all the way up to the 55. But what we want to do is we
want to show you how you can use three basic lights to do three point
lighting. So if you want to light an interview, this is going to be a great
help in showing you how the lights are set up for the kit.
What we're going to do here is we're going to have Yvonne and we're going
to use this before shot, which is just your overhead, normal lights that
you might have in your office. Now, we're going to go ahead and add the
lights from the DVcreator kit. So right now, what we're seeing from this
camera is automatic mode, and we're seeing the output of the image on our
screen here that shows us an image that looks kind of flat and dull. But
what we're going to do is we're going to go ahead and turn off these
overhead lights, and we're going to see what it looks like, how we can
really make this image pop by using the Lowel DVcreator kit.
The first thing we're going to do is we're going to go ahead and put the
camera into manual mode so this way we will actually be able to have a
little bit more control. So we're shooting at one sixteenth of a second and
2.6 on the F-Stop, the gains at zero. I'm going to go ahead and turn off
the studio lights overhead. Now you can see it's very dark so we're going
to go ahead and turn on our first light in the kit. This is the Lowel Tota-
Light. This is going to be our key light, it's a very broad light, 750
watts for the Lowel Tota-Light. And what we've done here is we've used the
included umbrella to make the light softer. So basically with soft light,
you can make people look beautiful, and you can get soft light by using an
umbrella and the Tota-Light.
Right now, we have the light positioned pretty much directly to the side
and this is a 90 degree angle, and what you get here is a lot of shadowing
on the opposite side of the key light. So what we like to do is move the
key light so it's a little bit more like a 45 degree angle, and what you
start to get here is a little but more light coming onto the opposite side
of the key. So what you're seeing right here is a little bit of a V. Now on
the opposite side of the key light we want to put in a little bit more
light, and we could use another Total but you don't have to. You can use a
piece of foam core or something like this flex fill here. So I'm going to
go open this up, this one has white on one side, gold on the other. And you
can see what happens as we position the flex fill so that it fills in the
shadows. So we're basically bouncing the light from the Tota-Light and
filling in those shadows. So we'll go ahead and use the gold side. It works
rather nicely.
We've got two lights so far. We're using the Lowel Total and we're using
the flex fill. The next light that we're going to go ahead and use is a
back light. So we're going to walk over here and we're going to use the
Lowel Pro Light. This is a 250 watt light. We've got it on the opposite
side of the key, and you can see what happens when we turn this light on.
What we have here is a nice little rim of light hitting her hair and
shoulders. It really makes a difference. You can see that if we cover it
up, with back light, no back light. So there's a 250 watt bulb. I like to
put a 125 in there. I like to get this light up very, very high.
Now you can also use another light. This is the Lowel Omni Light. We're
going to use it as the fourth light in three point lighting. One, two,
three, fourth light in three point lighting. This is the Omni Light with a
500 watt bulb in it, and what we're going to do here is use the included
gel frame to add a splash of color. So here you can see now we've added a
little bit of color to the background, and using the included barn doors
you can kind of create a little bit of a splash of light and you can kind
of rotate that around if you'd like, that splash. So those are the barn
doors.
So once again, we have all of our lights going on here. We're got our Tota,
our Pro and our Omni. Those are all included inside of the hard case and
you can get one starting at about $800, so it's a heck of a deal and you
can see that we can go from something that looks sub par to something that
looks truly gorgeous. So get a light kit because it doesn't matter how fast
your computer is. It doesn't matter how good your camera is, what matters
is the lighting. And the whole kit fits inside this portable hard case. Now
that you've seen what the DVcreator Light is capable of, why don't you
learn a little bit more by getting one of these DVcreators, DV enlightenment DVDs.
If you use the coupon code DVGEARTALK, we can throw in a free shooting
awesome video.
Now if you guys thought that you learned a lot in this one, come join us in
one of our DV Revolution workshops where we expand upon this knowledge and
we show you the secrets of shooting great DV on day one. Day two is about
editing with Final Cut Pro, and day three is about putting what you shot on
DVD, CD-Rom and on the web. Come and join us, you'll enjoy the workshop.