How would you light this

I think I would try to simulate a lamp to the left of the bed with just a little bit of light coming from it and then maybe put a blue light through the blinds (like moon light) and maybe another tungsten light coming through the bathroom door as well or possibly instead of having a lamp on. I would make sure to have the bathroom light bleed onto the floor as well, or maybe keep it all blue. I may even try a warm glow under the bed as well. That's just me. I would have to be there to see how the light reacts and see if there is a different route I would go. But from the picture I think that is what I would do.
 
What kind of lights do you have? If you have a big source, put some blue on it and diffusion and kick that through the window. Put a 100/150 watt bulb on the lamp next to them on the table there and maybe some kinda cool light on the left wall with a pattern, or a mirror, or a picture or something if you're going to reveal it. Looks like you have the mirror on the right angled to the bed so that's sweet.
 
put a 1k or 2k open faced outside and then have a practical or two on the inside with a diffused source on the side of the bed lighting up the couple
 
We're shooting this during the day so I'm thinking if we put some gel or ND on the window and have the light inside a warm cast it will sell as moonlight?
 
Austinv said:
put a 1k or 2k open faced outside and then have a practical or two on the inside with a diffused source on the side of the bed lighting up the couple
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Maybe add a bounce card at the foot of the bed to bounce a soft light down onto the bed from your lights from outside...?

Just because... the bedstead is quite large and solid so it will flag alot of the light coming through the window that you ideally want on the bed...
 
Does it have an overhead light?

if so, i'd rig a pair of 250w e27 bulbs in to it, then build a silk bubble, llooks like a softbox that hangs from the celiling straight down, then using duvy, build a black blind for it to cut the now very soft over head light, of the walls. and just on to the subject. now you can use a practical as a edgelight, liek a standard table lamp on a squeezer. it will look like this....

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gives it a warm sourceless feel.

you can, try reducing the wattage in the over head, and have the practical be more sourcey.

Classic Savides.
 
Keep it shadowy, man. Beef up your practicals and have them lit in shadow from the lamps with a bit of moonlight coming through the windows. Why make it more complicated than it has to be? If they're too dark, boom a china ball over them, but I don't think they will be. Are you stuck at f4 or do u have an adapter? If you do, shoot at 2.0
 
Not stuck at f4 but that's what we've been shooting for the rest of this thing.

I think what I'm going to do is ND the window, replace the practicals and skirt off a china ball above them heads. With ND on the window and white balance set to tungsten the daylight should sell as moon light right?
 
Ah, you're shooting day for night. I dunno. With indie I'd be afraid to dimming down too much light. You could I suppose, but you could also beef up the room and stop down. You don't have any access to a source you could put through the window around dusK?
 
TimurCivan said:
Does it have an overhead light?

if so, i'd rig a pair of 250w e27 bulbs in to it, then build a silk bubble, llooks like a softbox that hangs from the celiling straight down, then using duvy, build a black blind for it to cut the now very soft over head light, of the walls. and just on to the subject. now you can use a practical as a edgelight, liek a standard table lamp on a squeezer. it will look like this....

birth2.jpg


and this:

birth-2004.jpg



gives it a warm sourceless feel.

you can, try reducing the wattage in the over head, and have the practical be more sourcey.

Classic Savides.
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Was there supposed to be a second image in there... for me the background is a bit too bright for a 'night' hallway look.
 
Revsta said:
Ah, you're shooting day for night. I dunno. With indie I'd be afraid to dimming down too much light. You could I suppose, but you could also beef up the room and stop down. You don't have any access to a source you could put through the window around dusK?
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The problem is the window opens to an air shaft and it's on the second floor so putting a light out there is difficult.
 
Ah. Well you could always shoot at night to avoid gelling your window and just light it with practicals and a small bounce or china ball. Put 100s in the fixtures and start there.
 
I think this really depends on how dark you want to go. You said it's supposed to be a sex scene, so I would almost say to lose the idea of tungsten lights all together and light it with only "moonlight". But, maybe your idea for the scene may be a different kind of sex scene than I'm thinking about.

If you wanted to go the moonlight route, perhaps just a 2k outside the window, maybe through some sort of brancheloris, gelled half or full blue. Shoot that through maybe a 4x4 frame of opal, as you'll probably need the stop and won't be able to go through anything thicker.

Then maybe some bounce cards strategically placed outside of the cameras view so it's not too contrasty and will fall within the dynamic range of our cute little digital cameras. Either that or a smaller lamp up into the ceiling to bring up the ambience.

If you want to go the tungsten route though...I think timur provided you with some good ideas. Maybe let the edges of the room fall off darker, but definitely a good approach.
 
Thanks for all the suggestions guys.

We shot the scene this weekend and it turned out really great. I'll post pics soonish.
 
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