Desperate Need of Help For Video Lighting

egriffin619

egriffin619

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Hey Guys,
So maybe around a year ago, me and my channel co star (sis) invested in a new camera. We got the Canon Rebel t3i, and a few months ago we purchased the Canon Rebel t5i, and it seems as the quality has gotten worse, due to our lighting. We're unsure if its our camera set up, or just the lighting in general.

We have 100w Daylight bulbs and 100w Halogen bulbs. I left direct links below to our two lighting difficulties so you can examine for yourselves. **Correction: I cannot leave the links unfortunately, but I will explain below.

Daylight bulbs:
Had a very harsh blue tint

Halogen bulbs:
Had a very harsh sepia like tint

None of them gave me natural looking lighting :-(
Yes, I played around the the cameras ios, exposure, and camera functions and still came up with the same results.

I will upload the file to my videos if you care to examine closely.


So I am in desperate need of help to correct our lighting situation.
If you have any tips, that would be greatly appreciated. (Side Note: I cannot use natural day light because my apartment is surrounded by trees)

Thanks
 
Hi!
It still won't allow me to post the video links.
Yes, I've tweeked the white balance and it still has the ugly tint. I normally color correct it on my video editing software, but then the video ends up looking distorted and not crisp and clear like it should look.
 
Okay, Ill try and see if the link will post...
Here is what my video looks like with the Halogen bulb
youtube.com/watch?v=i9TJLY8qDLA

And the daylight bulb
youtube.com/watch?v=i9TJLY8qDLA (I removed the www's and http's)

Yes, I made multiple custom settings that looks great in natural daylight, it also looks good on the view finder, but when I pull it up on my laptop its as you see in the videos from above. I know Im doing something wrong because it seems like I'm the only one with this ongoing problem.

Let me know if the links works
 
egriffin619 said:
Hey Guys,
So maybe around a year ago, me and my channel co star (sis) invested in a new camera. We got the Canon Rebel t3i, and a few months ago we purchased the Canon Rebel t5i, and it seems as the quality has gotten worse, due to our lighting. We're unsure if its our camera set up, or just the lighting in general.

We have 100w Daylight bulbs and 100w Halogen bulbs. I left direct links below to our two lighting difficulties so you can examine for yourselves. **Correction: I cannot leave the links unfortunately, but I will explain below.

Daylight bulbs:
Had a very harsh blue tint

Halogen bulbs:
Had a very harsh sepia like tint

None of them gave me natural looking lighting :-(
Yes, I played around the the cameras ios, exposure, and camera functions and still came up with the same results.

I will upload the file to my videos if you care to examine closely.


So I am in desperate need of help to correct our lighting situation.
If you have any tips, that would be greatly appreciated. (Side Note: I cannot use natural day light because my apartment is surrounded by trees)

Thanks
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Hey, it's cool to see you here. Anyway, have you checked out Shameless Maya on YouTube she did several videos on lighting. Plus thebasicfilmaker on YouTube has done some very good videos on lighting. My T3i and new lighting are shipping right now so I can't help you there. Good luck, friends. :)
 
Looks like you may have other lights in the room turned on as well that may have a different color. It's hard to tell just by looking at the youtube videos, but I see multiple shadows created by lights behind the camera.

You may also want to move the lights to the sides, about 45 degrees diagonal. Also use a diffuser. It seems a bit hard light, either too close or strong, creating reflections.

I use these lights for shooting video, and they seem to create pretty decent color: ebay.com/itm/270968396256
I also try to make sure there's no other lights in the room, if the sun light is fluctuating with clouds, I close the curtains too.
 
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