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CHAPTERS

0:00 Intro
0:42 Traveling to Home Depot and Buying a $15 light
1:57 Why I’m doing this experiment
3:18 Setting up the diffusion for cinematic lighting
5:44 Testing the Home Depot light through the diffusion
7:34 Going for color gels to balance the color of the lights
7:56 Setting up the light & the color gels
11:50 Testing a 2nd light in the frame
14:35 Final thoughts and conclusions

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