How To Light A Cyc Wall

A demonstration with altman lighting and loyola marymount university.

How to light a 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. It helps to create that infinity effect of the same tone. In this case you will need to light up the cyc to eliminate the shadow caused by the key light on the model. The concept is that the talent is performing yoga in the middle of a white sweep.

Youll see the talents en. Your depth perception is gone but it s not stressing you out because. Such constructions first were used in television and news. It is a construction with two planes smoothly merging horizontal and vertical.

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. In this article we will give you some useful tips on how to use and light the cyc wall. Cyc wall or cyclorama also known as infinite wall. I want to bring the entire background and floor to a nice white and light the talent in a high key type way.

It was popularized in the german theater of the 19th century and continues in common usage today in theaters throughout the world. Essentially the bigger the curve the easier it is to light. 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 big you make the cove of the cyc will affect how evenly and smoothly the light will fall on it.

There you are surrounded by white with no horizon in sight. 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. Drywalling a cyc wall is comprised of measuring the curvature cutting the drywall to the curvature forming and fastening in place. Commercial advertising photographers use a cyc wall for professional lighting and no horizon line.

How to properly and efficiently light a cyc. 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. Imagine being inside an empty egg.