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Topic: Dark lighting
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freakingcool
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posted 12-08-2000 03:29 PM
Does anyone have any tips for lighing outdoors at night. I want to be able to see the actors, but still make it look as dark out as possible. |
Gamecat
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posted 12-08-2000 03:50 PM
Light the key areas that your actors will be in, with large contrast ratios. |
ADOM
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posted 12-09-2000 03:23 AM
This is always a tough one. How much light is too much? Fortunately audiences have been trained to see a scene as night as long as parts of the background are dark. We had some luck on a shoot by bouncing our lights off of a very thin mist that hung just over the actor's head. It was a natural occurence that bounced the light fairly evenly but only over a small area. When the weather cleared up, however, we were screwed.If you are using very powerful lights try a filter (or colored report cover...careful, they melt if they're too close) or barn doors to cut down on the intensity. You see blue used very often to depict moonlight. This is getting long, but there is also shooting day for night by closing down the shutter a bit or doing a partial fade during post. Hope some of this helps. ADOM | |
