Filming interviews at a sunny golf course?

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Lkorver

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I'm shooting a golf instructional video here in California and am looking for some advice on where I can find more information on managing available light in sunny locations. We'll be shooting our golf coach full body as he goes through different swings and such while talking to camera. My initial idea was to fly a 20X20 silk overhead, but I just don't know if we'll have the man power.

Is this the best option? What other methods could we try. I've never been a big fan of firing the bounce at the subject as it usually seems too harsh and ends up blinding them anyway. If there's any online tutorials on the topic I'd love to check them out.
thanks guys/gals!
 
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You could always shoot Shiney boards through 4x4 frames of diffusion and have the sun backlight him. The diffusion will help the harshness of the light, and you won't have to deal with tying anything down.
 
that sounds like a cool trick. have you seen this in action, does it seem pretty easy? Curious what level of diffusion would be needed? I guess you could just adjust the distance between the shiney and the diffusion to regulate light "output"?
 
Yeah, of course. I just did a shoot this past weekend where we shot a few people inside of a car during the daytime. We took two shiney boards, pushed them in through the front windows through frames of 250. Pretty simple.

I'd just get combo stands for both the reflector board and for the diffusion, as given some wind, even that 4x4 diffusion frame will become a sail.

You can try something lighter like 251, or opal on your wides, and then when you push in close switch to something like 216 and push your shiney board closer.


You know...I thought about this some more and you might have a bit of trouble since he's full body...Do you have any budget for renting lights? You can also use something like a 6x6 ultra bounce, but it won't buy you that much...

The only other thing I can think of is maybe shooting a few shiney boards through a 6x frame of half soft frost or something.
 
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