modernPrimitive
Active member
Hi,
I need a little advice lighting my first production as I have little on-set experience with lighting.
The first scene will take place on a shaded veranda. There should be a good deal of adequate ambient light coming in from the sky - either clear or overcast (we'll see on the day). My question is whether I'll need to boost the ambient light and what sort of kit I would need to do that. Gels to neutralize the lights (blue sky vs overcast etc) and diffusers to soften them. I need to light to look completely natural and neutral and not like a "point light source". I'll probably shoot reasonably wide at around f/3.2 - f/4. Would a reflector be adequate for this scene?
The second scene takes place in-doors in the early 1900s in rural South Africa so the scene must look as though it's lit entirely by oil lamps or candles. This scene will be reasonably low-key so lot's of shadow but I'm not sure how to emulate oil lamps withe a lighting kit. I was thinking of just bouncing a redhead with warm gels off one walls and having another redhead with a warm gel as a key with the barn doors fairly closed but I'm not sure that's going to look like candle light. Not sure if I should even attempt to emulate some sort of flame flicker for this one.
Please help. Any advice would be much appreciated.
I need a little advice lighting my first production as I have little on-set experience with lighting.
The first scene will take place on a shaded veranda. There should be a good deal of adequate ambient light coming in from the sky - either clear or overcast (we'll see on the day). My question is whether I'll need to boost the ambient light and what sort of kit I would need to do that. Gels to neutralize the lights (blue sky vs overcast etc) and diffusers to soften them. I need to light to look completely natural and neutral and not like a "point light source". I'll probably shoot reasonably wide at around f/3.2 - f/4. Would a reflector be adequate for this scene?
The second scene takes place in-doors in the early 1900s in rural South Africa so the scene must look as though it's lit entirely by oil lamps or candles. This scene will be reasonably low-key so lot's of shadow but I'm not sure how to emulate oil lamps withe a lighting kit. I was thinking of just bouncing a redhead with warm gels off one walls and having another redhead with a warm gel as a key with the barn doors fairly closed but I'm not sure that's going to look like candle light. Not sure if I should even attempt to emulate some sort of flame flicker for this one.
Please help. Any advice would be much appreciated.
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