C300: C300 II & 1DX II: NLP Interview (4K)

The person who is going to get the job is the shadow man in the center of the frame. The person who had this on a DOP or director reel would never get a job from it.
 
lightstrum said:
The person who is going to get the job is the shadow man in the center of the frame. The person who had this on a DOP or director reel would never get a job from it.
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Thanks for watching lightstrum. How would you improve this interview?
 
Just looking at the screen grab at the top of the thread: For starters, pull the subjects off of the wall. Better depth and their shadows won't fall on the wall. Also looks like their is mixed lighting (diff color temps in the room), the keys are warmer than the ambient and really call attention to themselves, especially on the male subject.
 
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I add my 0.02$ suggesting to lift the lights above the eye level next time. Shadows on talents faces are not pleasing (male in particular, since he is farther from the fill light than the woman).
This will help you also with the shadows projected onto the wall, which will be less tall and hopefully less distracting, provided that you put your subjects farther from the wall as it has already been suggested.
 
JCS,

The height of lights is too low, which gives an unnatural feel and puts the shadow of the head right behind the person, position the lights higher and the shadow will drop down, bring the lights even higher and you'll nearly lose the shadow but may need a white board to fill from the bottom. A higher source will feel more natural as a room like that most likely has ceiling lighting fixtures.

Try increasing you key fill ratio, it's too flat, try using one large soft light from one side with white fill on the other and then use fill lights if you really need them.

Best,

Jeff Cadge
 
Thanks for the tips guys. This was a travel shoot in a hotel, only brought two small LED panels, with tracing paper acting as diffusion. The main light came from a window to camera left- the primary goal was to eliminate the shadow from the left subject's face. The lights started out higher, then lowered to try to get more light in the face shadows. We had about 5 minutes to check lights and sound before rolling (the subjects taught a class right after the shoot). I see now we could have moved the couch (90 degrees and shot with the window light more direct on both subjects), though not much room in the small hotel room. I think in the future it might be better to get some LED spot/Fresnels (apparently they are much more powerful than they used to be: https://www.cinema5d.com/7-awesome-led-soft-lights/ ) and use with umbrellas or other large diffusors- more light and more diffusion vs. small LED panels, yet still pack for travel.
 
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