As part of our “Tips from the Trenches” series at our Canon camera classes every month, we invite DPs and other industry pros who have hands-on experience with Canon cameras.  Experience trumps a manual any day of the week and twice on Sundays, so our interviews with pros like Dana Christiaansen, ASC are invaluable. Even though we have been featuring the Canon DSLR 5D and 7D in our boot camps, we’re looking at providing boot camps for the C300, which is why we were so excited when Dana agreed to visit our boot camp this past December.

The C300 DPs–Dana Christiaansen Pt. 3 from Fletch/The Association on Vimeo.

Dana discussed his exploits shooting for director Sam Nicholson on the set of the short film “XXIT.”  We broke up the interview into 3 parts.  In this section, the 3rd part of the interview, Dana describes the lighting techniques and custom-built light panels he used for the C300 in the film.

Ensuring the lead actor looked great in close up shots was accomplished using customized 12″ X 12″ and 6″ X 12″ Rosco pads as the primary key lighting, which Dana discusses in some detail during the interview, as well as a few other lighting gags.

Missed the earlier part of the interview? Check out Part 1 HERE and Part 2 HERE.

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