All language subtitles for 3. Top Tip 03

Top tip, when you are looking

at eye lighting set up in front of you,

it's very important to realize

that the human eye doesn't see like a camera, right?

There's more contrast in a camera.

You don't get the detail that we see with the human eye

and we don't have the same sort of dynamic range

as a camera.

So I have a little tip that when I'm shooting,

I will sometimes squint at a situation.

And what you'll find is how you squint is much more

how a film sensor sees.

So very, very simple tip is that you wanna see

how your lights are falling, squint at them.

That's more how your camera will see it.

Well, I suppose this is more relevant for film

because nowadays you just take a picture

and look at the back of the camera and go,

yeah, it looks about right.

But certainly back in the film days,

it was incredibly important to look at a situation

how film sees it rather than how your eye see it.

And so the simple trick of squinting

really got us through that.

I still use it today 'cause I don't always put a camera up

when we're lighting things, you light by your eye,

and then you squint at it.