Digital Lighting

I don't think low-key lighting is possible to create in post out of high-key footage.

To the OP: Do you have any digitally-lit examples of chiaroscuro or tenebrism?

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You can, Drew, it would just be crazy time consuming. Correction: not necessarily from high key footage, but I dont think high key was ever specified. Just flat.
 
no.

it may have a loweer ratio, but it doesnt mean flat. it means there is a stable bright key light from which the rest of the image is built upon.

It looks like seinfeld....

but i still wouldnt call it flat.... hmm maybe a little...
 
FBAS: You're right of course. What I should have said is: Post is for enhancing stuff. But generally you shouldn't rely on post to save you.
 
WOW! That video was excelent. Usualy the trained eye can spot greenscreen even in big $$$ Hollywood productions but that was phantastic.

Thanks for sharing,

Frank
 
This is no way to shoot a film, no way to treat peoples jobs,

Not sure if this is the issue. I understand the sentiment, but individual jobs will be replaced, on some level, by technology and new techniques. I can edit at home without a moviola. You really wouldn't want to change all that, would you?

I have seen poorly lit scenes, and there's only so much I can do to help, so i agree that at this time, it is an art form and not easily replaced. Still the issue will never be about employment. It will always be about product. Sad, but true...

Having said that, I hope this debate continues. I'm getting a lot of info and this is much better than the squeeze vs. letterbox debate!
 
Drew Ott said:
I always thought high key and flat were synonymous.
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I'm not entirely sure what Timur is saying, but the basic guidelines for high key and low key are this: in high-key, the subject is the darkest object in frame. In low-key, the subject is the lightest.

The word "key" refers to the overall TONE of the picture, and not to the key light.

Your tenebrism example above, is obviously LOW key.

This is an example of high key:

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strangely, wiki's definition of high key follows yours, and I have been a fulltime professional photographer for 10 years and have studied photography for 23 years. I have never, until just now, heard the wiki definition of high-key.
 
i wa taught it that it refere to the tone... but that was established by the contrast ratio off the main Key.

i duno dudes, i just turn on lights till its pretty.... ;)
 
I am a huge fan of "Digital Lighting"

I recognise its influence in every "modern" movie and every TVC that I regard as well photographed.

The Master Cinematographers of yester year would have loved to have had this tool in their respective repertoires . We have it now and why not allow it to make us look great and have our images "communicate/impact " as we would wish.

Film images have never looked better than they do now.

My B.G is as a D.P for thirty plus years. I have owned and run a motion picture film lab and spent countless hours in telecine and edit suites. More recently ...all Digital Suites including my own....and I love it.

Great thread topic by the way.
 
Shooter said:
My B.G is as a D.P for thirty plus years. I have owned and run a motion picture film lab and spent countless hours in telecine and edit suites. More recently ...all Digital Suites including my own....and I love it.
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Shooter, could you please tell us more?:smile:
 
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