Basic Lighting for Audiovisual Projects
The contrast and the zonal key
A course by Enrique Silguero , Director of Photography
Joined May 2012
Joined May 2012
About the video: The contrast and the zonal key
Overview
“And one of the most complex and important lessons. I'm going to teach you how to control the exposure and vary the level of contrast, in order to use the one we want. ”
In this video lesson Enrique Silguero addresses the topic: The contrast and the zonal key, which is part of the Domestika online course: Basic Lighting for Audiovisual Projects. Learn to use light as an emotions generator in your cinematic pieces.
Partial transcription of the video
“Contrast: The importance of fill light Well, let's go now with two of the lessons perhaps more difficult to understand, which are the contrast and the zonal key or what is the exposition. To understand one you have to understand the other. The contrast, as I already explained in the keys to light, is the amount of gray that we are going to have in the plane, from the most illuminated part to the most shadowed part. While the zonal key is in which part from that grayscale we are going to expose or we are going to grade ourselves. That is, if we leave it very bright, If we leave it in a middl...”
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Course summary for: Basic Lighting for Audiovisual Projects
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Photography & Video -
Areas
Film, Video & TV, Filmmaking, Lighting Design, Photographic Lighting
Enrique Silguero
A course by Enrique Silguero
Enrique Silguero is a cinematographer from Salamanca, Spain, with experience in film, television series, documentaries, music videos, short films, and commercials. In his words, his specialty is telling stories through light, shadow, color, and composition.
His work can be seen on the main Spanish television networks: Ministerio del Tiempo on TVE, Cuarto Milenio on Cuatro, el Capítulo 0 on #Cero on Movistar Plus. He has worked on music videos for La Oreja de Van Gogh, Miguel Bosé, and Malú. In advertising, his clients include Sony, Coca-Cola, Adidas, and Iberdrola.
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