I’m editing a series of videos for a Fortune 500 global company. They had crews from around the world shoot these. I’ve seen some really good stuff, and some not so good. So in today’s blog, here’s some problems to avoid. Shooting subject against a window might look good to your eye, but is a very tricky lighting situation. There can be a difference of 5 or more stops between the ambient light on your subject and what’s outside that window. So if you expose for the subject, the window is blown out. If you expose for the window, your subject is dark. With good lighting, you can get the exposure of your subject even with the outside exposure. With this big editing job, I had about ten interviews sent in against windows. One was lit nicely. Half weren’t lit…
