Video Lighting

Get Your Video Light Off Your Camera (And Why It Changes Everything)
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Get Your Video Light Off Your Camera (And Why It Changes Everything)

I shoot in a controlled studio most of the time. Every light has a label on it. Every modifier gets tested the day it arrives. I have a lighting diagram app on my phone that I built myself because the existing ones didn’t think the way I do. So when I started picking up more video work alongside my editorial and commercial jobs, the lack of that same control drove me a little crazy.

Get Your Video Light Off the Camera: How the Platypod Bracket Fixes Run-and-Gun Lighting
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Get Your Video Light Off the Camera: How the Platypod Bracket Fixes Run-and-Gun Lighting

Run-and-gun video has always been the awkward cousin of controlled studio work. In the studio, I label every light with masking tape, sketch every setup in my lighting journal, and test every modifier before a client ever walks in. On location, chasing a moving subject? That whole system collapses. You can’t place a light on a stand when you’re following a couple down an alley or moving through a reception hall.