Video (5min 4sec): Three Point Lighting Basics. All Videographers and photographers need to learn the foundation for all good video lighting techniques.
Three point lighting forms the bases of some of the more complicated lighting set-ups but it illustrates important lighting concepts that you can use in whatever scene you would like to set up.
The main goal of three point lighting is to get a nice even distribution of light across the subject avoiding deep shadows while allowing the subject to pop a bit from the background
For three point lighting, you're going to need three lights: The key light, the fill light, and the backlight.







