S06E018, Light Can Be Tricky, Andy B 2 Minute Video
I used to think that light only ever travelled in a straight direction. When I was in school I discovered that light can actually bend around things too. It’s tricky stuff! More than that, it changes throughout the day.
From the perspective of, well, humanity, that change is great. Generally speaking you would wake up as the light gets brighter, and fall asleep as the darkness grows.
Unless you’re recording in a studio, then Light Can Be Tricky!
We’ve made many videos over the past few years and the one thing I quickly came to value, was the ability to control the light. So, as a result, we always heavy black out curtains or blinds to ensure that any light we use is created – and controlled - by us.
And this works well, right up the point that you forget to close the curtains until after you’re in the middle of filming an interview when getting up to close those curtains is either not possible, or you left it too late and have to just carry on.
Light Can Be Tricky. Just saying!
Just a thought...
Andy B
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[00:00:00] So another Andy B Two Minute Video, simple title today, Light Can Be Tricky . What's that got to do with anything?
[00:00:14] Right, every, every, every weekday on a Wednesday on my drive time show on Pure247Radio.Org I have an interview, which is really exciting. I love them!
[00:00:23] We've set up various interview booths so I can, I can just get in there and do the interview and it's much better and, so that's what we've done. Now, here's the thing about lighting.
[00:00:34] If we have too much light, I look really bright. We can correct for most of that on the camera. If I'm too dark, because there's not enough light, we can correct some of that on the camera too. Here's the problem. It doesn't matter how much effort and time we've spent into making it perfect, so we just switch on a bunch of lights, turn on the camera, and everything's perfect if I don't close the curtains. Because we need to control the light.
[00:00:57] One interview I did recently, it's terrible. [00:01:00] Everything was perfect. The lights were on, the camera was great. It was set up brilliant. It was a really good interview. But by the end of the interview, my head was bright, shining white, like a halo of an angel. Why? Because we didn't shut the curtains.
[00:01:13] We'd set everything up for a completely dark room, so we control the light. When I started, it was so dark outside I hadn't even realised I hadn't closed the curtains. It's in the daytime. By the end of the interview, the sun, well it had a little fun with me, it came out, it moved across, it was really bright.
[00:01:31] But I'm in the middle of an interview, right, I can't just say, oh, excuse me while I go and shut a curtain, because that wouldn't be very good. Because it's about, you know, continuity. So by the end of the interview, I've gone from brilliant to bright white, which isn't ideal.
[00:01:48] Here's the thing. Light can be tricky.
[00:01:50] Life can be tricky. Situations can be tricky. It doesn't matter how much time we spend getting something absolutely right. It's only going to be absolutely [00:02:00] right as long as there are no differences. As long as a bulb doesn't blow, as long as our temper doesn't blow, as long as a tire doesn't blow. So we need to be really careful in life that we're not maxing out everything. So that we can't have any adaptation, any flexibility, what's coming along.
[00:02:16] My wife has a great phrase. I don't know where she came, where it came from, but roll with resistance, roll with the punches. That means some things we can change some things we can't, but if we have no option to roll with that resistance or roll with that punch, we're just going to get knocked out. But actually, if we can roll, we reduce the impact of gravity taking effect.
[00:02:37] Light can be tricky. Life can be tricky. Put some, put some flexibility in your life.
[00:02:44] Just a thought.