how to achieve this look
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PaPa
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seems like a reasoanbly simple setup.
It looks to me like there is a soft light source, perhaps a softbox that hangs almost directly above them, perhaps angled to creat more of a backlight than a direct overhead light. I see this by the reflection of hte light off of his nose, and her eye. These particular shots look very desaturated even for daylight on tungsten balanced video. So you could have the choice of either hanging a tungsten lamp over them, and then color grading it in post to achieve the same look. OR, if you want to retain some of the natural skin tones and such, i would CTB a softbox, set camera to tungsten, and then do a bit of tweaking in post. They look about 1.5-2 stops under exposed, so maybe in the zone 3 ( or 4 ), if zone 5 is 18% grey neutral
Hope that helps.
It looks to me like there is a soft light source, perhaps a softbox that hangs almost directly above them, perhaps angled to creat more of a backlight than a direct overhead light. I see this by the reflection of hte light off of his nose, and her eye. These particular shots look very desaturated even for daylight on tungsten balanced video. So you could have the choice of either hanging a tungsten lamp over them, and then color grading it in post to achieve the same look. OR, if you want to retain some of the natural skin tones and such, i would CTB a softbox, set camera to tungsten, and then do a bit of tweaking in post. They look about 1.5-2 stops under exposed, so maybe in the zone 3 ( or 4 ), if zone 5 is 18% grey neutral
Hope that helps.
if i were you, i would shoot it at normal exposure then dial back the brightness in post. undersexposing with the HVX200/DVX will result in a grainy difficult to controll image. Shooting bright to be darkened, results in much better results.
it looks like, as papa said, a soft source on about 45degree backlights to the right. and a small VERY soft fill light from the front.
it looks like, as papa said, a soft source on about 45degree backlights to the right. and a small VERY soft fill light from the front.
Ryan Patrick O'Hara
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You can do many different things to get that blue look:
1) Shoot preset tungsten balanced and use hmi's
2) Shoot normal (white balanced) and increase "color temp" in scene file
3) White balance to a warm card
4) Shoot normal (correctly balanced) and do in post CC.
5) Shoot normal (correctly balanced) and add blue gels at digressions
6) Some aforementioned techniques can be combined with each other in various results.
Color temperature is achieved in many different ways. Some swear by shooting normal and coloring in post, while others like doing as much in camera as to save time and money in post. The choice is yours!
As for the Lighting, those stills are most definitely soft. Using a chimera, kenoflo, or heavy diffusion will achieve this soft light look.
From what I can tell on the woman, there is a light on the background wall, a soft light above her and slightly back (as all have been saying) but I also think it is over her arm not her face due to the light not reaching the left side of her arm, and finally a slight fill light to her face.
Chan Ee Jien
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I actually find this to be true of even the XHA1 which is the reason why I slightly overexposed occasionally.
Ryan Patrick O'Hara
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The problem with this method is that video has horibble latitude (compared to film) on the higher end of the zone system... so unless you can afford to slightly overexpose and bring down in post you might be sacrificing detail you would otherwise have had in the highlights, had you not overexposed.
LighthouseMedia
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Okay there are several factors here to take into consideration I would white balance straight up and use a very large soft source with full or CTB with sombe bounce fill you can increase the blue in post but this will provide a nice baseline, be careful not to overlight leave some carefully placed shadows. In camera I would lift the master ped like +3 or so to help flatten the image and give a lower contrast image.