Chapter 12
Specific Lighting Situations
What Should I Do?
You have now come to the point where you should try your hand at lighting some specific scenarios. I tried to make these actual situations a sample of what you might run into in the lighting world because each of these “sets” poses challenges for the lighting director.
Every one of these “problems” is from one of my shoots, and our lighting team created the look we were after with the equipment we had or had rented. I will start with one of the less complicated setups and explain my concept.
The Lone Interviewee
Our first example is lighting someone who will be interviewed on camera. It does not matter if he or she is looking at the camera, at an off-camera interviewer (as was in our case), ...
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