How was this scene lit?

[camarade]

Just watched "Prince of Persia", brilliant cinematography (John Seale). Anyway...

So there's this scene were they sit in a small tent. Lit through the tent fabric? How they lit the faces? Color temp, daylight & then letting the fabric do the trick for luminance...?

It just looks so "ambient" & natural, so I'm thinking, they just stuck a big light outside, but no harsh shadows... hmmm on the other hand lighting in a tent can tend to look like that.... what do you think?

A still on imdb, showing the exposure bit more realistic. Notice how small the space is: http://www.imdb.com/media/rm50102784/tt0473075

 

[j1clark@ucsd.edu]

Just watched "Prince of Persia", brilliant cinematography (John Seale). Anyway...

So there's this scene were they sit in a small tent. Lit through the tent fabric? How they lit the faces? Color temp, daylight & then letting the fabric do the trick for luminance...?

It just looks so "ambient" & natural, so I'm thinking, they just stuck a big light outside, but no harsh shadows... hmmm on the other hand lighting in a tent can tend to look like that.... what do you think?

A still on imdb, showing the exposure bit more realistic. Notice how small the space is: http://www.imdb.com/media/rm50102784/tt0473075

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The Wife shot a wedding in Jerusalem a few years ago, and spent days 'correcting' out the canvas cover 'yellow' color cast... while the effect may look good for "Prince of Persia"(2010), it did not look good for the wedding coverage...

With that said, the easiest, cheapest way to get that 'look' would be some form of muslin canvas cover in bright, glaring sun...

 

[maranfilms]

looks to me like it would pretty simple to get close to that with just using the white balance. You could even get that in post just as easy adjusting color temperature in looks. As others stated with an off white muslin as diffusion. there's actually lots of ways to get that look now that Im thinking about it. But remember, I'm going off a couple screen grabs too.

 

[jambredz]

lighting from above with fill light from the camera direction. Remember we are not seeing what is behind the camera. That "tent" covering can extend very far beyond that camera...similar to a large overhead butterfly. we are only seeing whats in front of the lens. that space we are seeing may not be as small as you may think.

 

[Wave of Light]

Soft source, camera left, with some yellow on the lamp. The source is flagged to make dark areas in the tent. They give the illusion of a small tent.

Outside light may be something big, bounced into a 20x20.

 

[jimpatro]

I'm getting this effect by balancing the camera for daylight, base light with blue (sometimes just the natural daylight filling the set) and keying with 3200 and qtr blue gels. I like to shoot this warm pretty often. Then you can back off the saturation to your liking in post and maybe tweak the hue a bit. And from nose and brow shadows it looks to be an overhead soft source.