Amazing photos. Translate into film?

Photos and moving images have nothing to do with each other. If those images were animated they wouldn't have the same power.
 
At first I thought it might be HDR or maybe a nice bounce,
but looking more closely, I realized that the dynamic range is about normal,
but the exposure is perfect.

Also note that the lighting is quite different from shot to shot. There's that under-freeway shot,
that's on an overcast day, with very even lighting; and then there's the suburban shot
with the Volvo in front, just a regular high-contrast sunny day. The shot in front of Norm's Taco
does have somewhat unusual lighting, but that might be simply finding a spot for the model
directly underneath a big bright sign.

What makes these shots special is that the photographer
found perfect locations, composed the frame carefully, and moved the model around
until something magical happened.

You can do the same thing in film or video if you keep your eyes open
to the strangeness that sometimes happens in everyday situations.
In other words: don't create the light; find it.
 
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Thanks for the help guys.

I guess my other main question was: how would I go about using lights outside where there are no power outlets?
 
leaftors said:
how would I go about using lights outside where there are no power outlets?
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Uh, I don't mean to "bounce" your question back at you,
but if you're going to ask a "battery" of questions,
you should "generate" a new thread for each question.
 
stuckfootage said:
At first I thought it might be HDR or maybe a nice bounce,
but looking more closely, I realized that the dynamic range is about normal,
but the exposure is perfect.
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It makes me strongly suspect that levels/exposure manipulation took place in the camera and/or in Photoshop.

I don't have a modern DSLR, but I've seen images from friends' cameras that produced remarkable lattitude. Apparently there is a mode that automatically takes several bracketed exposures and then combines the "perfect" parts of each exposure. Dunno what that effect is called?
 
there is photog. apps called DXO than can help to render such image look. It is very powerful but you need to have a camera body and lens that is listed in the application to get full correction.
On the other side you can easily get that look in video, but with some limitations, like progressive picture, very slow pan (it is enhancing the 3D aspect depth of picture) and obviously here absolutely no dof, plus a lot of light.
Then with DXO or photoshop you can increase contrast and sharpness, correct CA (helps a lot).
shooting over-resolution (like 3 or 4K and downsampling to full HD) would be a great thing too.
a small HDR effect (false HDR made from one shot is a DXO feature) could be nice too.
If yu have seen the last Transformer or die Hard in HD on a very good screen, you got the same picture aspect. I do not like at all for movie, but it makes sell screen because the wow effect on consumer.
 
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Forgive me for saying so - but not one of those images looks like an HDR image. Every one of them is lit in some way shape or form.

Captured as RAW these would be easy to manipulate into this range.

To OP if you want to reproduce these in a short - look more to the composition if you were looking for the same feel and Id suggest shooting during golden hour morning or night. Something around a 20 mm lens @ around f5.6 will help with your deeper DOF.
 
De gustibus et coloribus non est disputandum.

Sorry, I don't like the look. They all feel sourcy to me.
 
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