How To Light A Cyc Wall

We ll be detailing how to build a cyc wall for full body photography or video work with three foot curves a 12 foot high wall and 18 feet of bare floor.

How to light a cyc wall.

Drywalling a cyc wall is comprised of measuring the curvature cutting the drywall to the curvature forming and fastening in place. It helps to create that infinity effect of the same tone. 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. A demonstration with altman lighting and loyola marymount university.

There you are surrounded by white with no horizon in sight. Commercial advertising photographers use a cyc wall for professional lighting and no horizon line. Essentially the bigger the curve the easier it is to light. It was popularized in the german theater of the 19th century and continues in common usage today in theaters throughout the world.

Youll see the talents en. This article is about how to build a commercial photography studio cyclorama. 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. I want to bring the entire background and floor to a nice white and light the talent in a high key type way.

Cyc wall or cyclorama also known as infinite wall. Imagine being inside an empty egg. How to properly and efficiently light a cyc. Your depth perception is gone but it s not stressing you out because.

The concept is that the talent is performing yoga in the middle of a white sweep. Cyc wall is perfect for shooting e commerce since it can provide an evenly lit background or the feeling of no background at all. It is a construction with two planes smoothly merging horizontal and vertical. I am shooting a yoga video and need some advice on how to light a white cyc wall.

In this case you will need to light up the cyc to eliminate the shadow caused by the key light on the model. In this article we will give you some useful tips on how to use and light the cyc wall. Such constructions first were used in television and news.