Stay tuned to the end for a chance to win a prize! The ability to light people's faces is one of the fundamentals skills needed in cinematography. Unless you have shot animals or inanimate objects your entire life, at one point or another, you'll have to understand how to light a human face cinematically. Each story and person will require slightly different lighting to achieve the desired effect. So understanding how to accomplish some fundamental methods for lighting faces will put you on the path to becoming a better cinematographer. Today, director of photography William Hellmuth teaches us 3 different ways to light a face, in both flattering and unflattering ways, to achieve different effects. In this video, William shows us three different methods for lighting and shaping an actor's face. In our first setup, he mimics the sun, which is motivated by the window that the two actors are sitting next to, using a far side key to create more cinematic depth. In our second setup, William tackles the conventional wisdom that both near side key lighting and lighting from below inherently produce unflattering results, by using both of them together, with a practical lamp as the motivation. In the third and last setup, we are using the new Aputure Spotlight Mount to show off the different effects created when using hard top light versus soft top light. The main techniques that we will be discussing today are far side key lighting, near side and bottom lighting, and top lighting. Far side key is when the key light is lighting the side of the talent's face facing away from the camera. This is a common method used for creating cinematic depth. Near side, lighting is not typically associated with dramatic visuals, but rather beauty lighting, duet it's lack of shadows. Bottom lighting or underlighting is however associated with unnatural or scary visuals, due to shadows being cast in the opposite direction that we're used to seeing them. Top lighting is the act of lighting subjects from above and can have very different effects depending on whether the top light is an obvious hard source, or a subtle, sourceless ambient glow. Ultimately, as most filmmakers try to tell human stories, learning how to light human faces is very important. Different lighting styles and directions will create different feelings and emotions. It is also important to be able to embrace different sources or motivations for your key lights, as they might lead you to lighting designs that you would never have thought of. There is almost always a way to make the light falling on someone's face more flattering, and now you know how to do that. But it is also essential to be able to embrace the type of lighting that will complement the talent's face and best tell the story. Connect with William: www.instagram.com/williamhellmuth_dp/ Connect with Jahel: www.instagram.com/jahelcorban/ Connect with Amaka: www.instagram.com/zuzuchiama/ Connect with Valentina: www.twitter.com/valentinavee Want more free lighting and cinematography tutorials? Subscribe to us so you never miss an episode: goo.gl/QwazdM 🎥How to Light the Cinematic Film Look! youtu.be/oy2wGhuVqoY 🎥Free Cinematography Lessons From Experts! www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjnBD0tWOQ1-jsuV5e_jlOvtjr3nY7S9a 🎥Subscribe to Aputure: www.youtube.com/aputurephoto www.facebook.com/aputure www.instagram.com/aputuretech www.twitter.com/aputuretech 🎥Connect with the A-Team! Ted - instagram.com/aputure_ted Benny - instagram.com/aputure_benny 🎥GET APUTURE GEAR: lddy.no/3dkv 🎥MUSIC: bit.ly/pb_aputure 🎥GRAPHICS: bit.ly/Aputure_RS Summary: Aputure's YouTube channel provides free high-quality cinematography, lighting, and filmmaking educational content to help you take your film projects to the next level.

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