{"id":8279,"date":"2011-05-25T18:24:22","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T22:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/?p=8279"},"modified":"2021-01-25T13:04:29","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T17:04:29","slug":"video-tutorial-using-led-video-light-for-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/video-tutorial-using-led-video-light-for-photography\/","title":{"rendered":"Video tutorial &#8211; Using LED video light for photography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/images\/models\/anelisa\/NV3_5750-900.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<h1>Video tutorial &#8211; Using LED video light for photography<\/h1>\n<p>Regular visitors to the this website will know that I favor video lights for dramatic portraits. The what-you-see-is-what-you-get nature of continuous light, makes it really easy to get interesting light on your subjects. But it does need some finessing in how you position it for portraits. Meeting up with Anelisa, one of my favorite models, we created this tutorial video clip to show exactly <strong>how<\/strong> I use the video light for portraits. It also explains my starting point in choosing the direction of light, and also shows how I often direct people during a shoot.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/24241537?portrait=0\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>As a side-note: during the first part of the shoot, my assistant held up the video light. For the latter part of the shoot, I used a light-stand, as can be seen in the clip.<\/p>\n<p>[ For more videos, follow me on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/neilvn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vimeo<\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/NeilvanNiekerk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>About the video light itself<\/h2>\n<p>There is a <strong>huge variety of LED video lights<\/strong> available on the market. The unit that I currently use is this one, which I recommend:\u00a0<strong><a class=\"thirstylink\" title=\"Celadon Pro LED video light\" href=\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/recommends\/pro-led-video-light\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-linkid=\"38538\">LED video light<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(<em>affiliate<\/em>). It is compact, yet powerful. It doesn\u2019t run hot and works off a rechargeable battery.\u00a0The color balance can be continuously changed from Incandescent WB to Daylight WB.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">I like this unit because I feel it gives me a more neutral color that is easily edited for great skin tones. As mentioned, you can easily change the WB for Incandescent \/ Tungsten, or warmer than Daylight, which helps in the ever-changing scenarios we find ourselves when we have a photo shoot.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>More about the things we need to look at when buying a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/video-light-for-photography-video\/\">video light for Photography &amp; Video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Related articles<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/video-light-vs-bounce-flash\/\">Video light vs bounce flash<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/positioning-the-video-light\/\">Video light for photography \u2013 positioning the light<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/lighting-ideas-romantic-portraits-of-bride-and-groom\/\">Lighting ideas for the romantic wedding portraits<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/video-light-for-photography-video\/\">Buying a video light for Photography &amp; Video<\/a><\/li>\n<li>more articles on <a href=\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/flash-photography-techniques\/using-video-lights\/\">using video light for photography<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/NeilvanNiekerk\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/images\/banners\/youtube.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Technical details about the video clip \/ equipment used<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Sound recorded via Sennheiser G2 wireless microphone system<\/li>\n<li>Video clip edited in iMovie &#8217;11<\/li>\n<li>Music for the video clip provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/triplescoopmusic.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Triple Scoop Music<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Equipment used for the HD video:<\/li>\n<li><strong>Canon 5D mk II<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/recommends\/canon-ef-24-105mm-f4\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Canon 24-105mm f4L IS<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Equipment used for the stills photography:<\/li>\n<li>Nikon D3; <a href=\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/recommends\/nikon-70-200mm-f2-8-vr-ii\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nikon 70-200mm f2.8 AF-S VR II<\/a><\/li>\n<li>recommended <a class=\"thirstylink\" title=\"Celadon Pro LED video light\" href=\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/recommends\/pro-led-video-light\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-linkid=\"38538\">LED video light<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video tutorial &#8211; Using LED video light for photography Regular visitors to the this website will know that I favor video lights for dramatic portraits. The what-you-see-is-what-you-get nature of continuous light, makes it really easy to get interesting light on your subjects. But it does need some finessing in how you position it for portraits.&nbsp;<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/video-tutorial-using-led-video-light-for-photography\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Read more inside&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[431,833,42,43,44,630],"tags":[226,106],"yst_prominent_words":[2856,2854,3104,4822,7597,3015,3014,2857,7621,9401,1020,7622,1997,2930,8317,1880,2821,2855,3072,3021],"class_list":{"0":"post-8279","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anelisa-durham","8":"category-equipment-reviews-lighting-gear","9":"category-technique","10":"category-video-clip","11":"category-video-light","12":"category-video-tutorial","13":"tag-using-led-video-light","14":"tag-video-light-for-photography","15":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8279"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8279"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50107,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8279\/revisions\/50107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8279"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=8279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}