How lighting can change someone's face

That's more or less what we do as a lesson on the Lighting DVD. Not that quick, and with explanations and diagrams at every step, of course.
 
Wonderful example. So wonderful, i've stolen in to my facebook profile. Love it.

Now we need someone to do one with a perfect dolly-in, zoom out with a zoom lens to show focal length. It's just as surprising if you have the right zoom range.
 
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There is a documentary about an unfinished masterpiece from the early 60s which features this and many other innovative lighting techniques. I believe the technique was also developed independently in Corman's The Trip, three years later in '67. The documentary (which is an interesting cautionary tale about the dangers of free reign, no boundaries, no deadline) has many interesting experimental techniques. I highly recommend it. It is called Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno about the fiasco that was L'Enfer. The documentary culls footage from 185 reels of tests and endless takes, re-takes, re-writes as well as private BTS footage. It weaves a tale of a director without direction, slowly driving his cast and crew mad as he burns through Columbia's blank cheque on self-indulgent artistry. It could have been brilliant if the money men had put the shackles on.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri-Georges_Clouzot's_Inferno


(example of OP lighting technique at 1.35)
 
Egg Born Son said:
There is a documentary about an unfinished masterpiece from the early 60s which features this and many other innovative lighting techniques. I believe the technique was also developed independently in Corman's The Trip, three years later in '67. The documentary (which is an interesting cautionary tale about the dangers of free reign, no boundaries, no deadline) has many interesting experimental techniques. I highly recommend it. It is called Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno about the fiasco that was L'Enfer. The documentary culls footage from 185 reels of tests and endless takes, re-takes, re-writes as well as private BTS footage. It weaves a tale of a director without direction, slowly driving his cast and crew mad as he burns through Columbia's blank cheque on self-indulgent artistry. It could have been brilliant if the money men had put the shackles on.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri-Georges_Clouzot's_Inferno


(example of OP lighting technique at 1.35)
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You win. I much enjoyed that one! ;)
 
David Jimerson said:
That's more or less what we do as a lesson on the Lighting DVD. Not that quick, and with explanations and diagrams at every step, of course.
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The Wife and I put together a still sequence to illustrate this quite a few years ago, and was one of my first 'After Effects' projects to make into what appears to be an 'animated' sequence. At the time, 'video' cameras were low res, and too expensive... and we were using strobes rather than continuous lighting...

The other 'stop-motion' like demo we did was head positioning (for still portraits) and the effect of eye line, nose 'angle' and how slight head tilts can remove certain types of 'nose' issues... Some of these sorts of thing may be applicable to 'moving pictures'...
 
j1clark@ucsd.edu said:
The Wife and I put together a still sequence to illustrate this quite a few years ago, and was one of my first 'After Effects' projects to make into what appears to be an 'animated' sequence. At the time, 'video' cameras were low res, and too expensive... and we were using strobes rather than continuous lighting...

The other 'stop-motion' like demo we did was head positioning (for still portraits) and the effect of eye line, nose 'angle' and how slight head tilts can remove certain types of 'nose' issues... Some of these sorts of thing may be applicable to 'moving pictures'...
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It actually took me a few viewings to get that the video above is made of stills (not sure why, but eh). When we did ours, of course, it was all live action and continuous, picking up and moving the lights. :)
 
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