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The angle and height of your light sources are especially important when shooting the human face. Video is such an intimate medium that we frequently are seeing people "up close" and "very personal." As some clever person once said, "the eyes are the window on the soul," and no where is that more true than when capturing someone on video. As a viewer, our attention is drawn to the eyes of the person we are watching. So it makes sense that we want to light the face so we can see the eyes, or at least one eye if we want to be dramatic. |
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But, frequently I've watched local television, training videos, and home movies where the eyes are totally obscured by shadow. One of the first culprits in this situation is, typically, placing the subject's main light source at too high and steep of an angle above the subject. The simplest solution to this problem is to lower the light, either by lowering the light on its stand or by moving the light farther away from your subject, thereby reducing the angle of the light.
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