How To Light A Cyc Wall

The concept is that the talent is performing yoga in the middle of a white sweep.

How to light a cyc wall.

We used led panels but the problem is led panels are this big they re one by one sized so we had to use one two three four five six seven eight nine to make it pure white. How to properly and efficiently light a cyc. Well and depending on your light source it determines what kind of light fixture you should use like for example for this about a 30 by 25 foot cyc. In this article we will give you some useful tips on how to use and light the cyc wall.

Cyc wall is perfect for shooting e commerce since it can provide an evenly lit background or the feeling of no background at all. Imagine being inside an empty egg. It is a construction with two planes smoothly merging horizontal and vertical. Commercial advertising photographers use a cyc wall for professional lighting and no horizon line.

Such constructions first were used in television and news. A demonstration with altman lighting and loyola marymount university. Essentially the bigger the curve the easier it is to light. Youll see the talents en.

It was popularized in the german theater of the 19th century and continues in common usage today in theaters throughout the world. In theater and film a cyclorama abbreviated cyc in the united states is a large curtain or wall often concave positioned at the back of the apse it often encircles or partially encloses the stage to form a background. How big you make the cove of the cyc will affect how evenly and smoothly the light will fall on it. Drywalling a cyc wall is comprised of measuring the curvature cutting the drywall to the curvature forming and fastening in place.

I want to bring the entire background and floor to a nice white and light the talent in a high key type way. Your depth perception is gone but it s not stressing you out because. This article is about how to build a commercial photography studio cyclorama. While we currently don t have a cyc wall drywall video watch our how to drywall a cove ceiling video which is essentially the same thing but on a ceiling instead of the floor.

There you are surrounded by white with no horizon in sight. In this case you will need to light up the cyc to eliminate the shadow caused by the key light on the model. I am shooting a yoga video and need some advice on how to light a white cyc wall.