Lighting for Night look

PaPa

PaPa

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Hey guys.

I made a post in the xh a1 section about a short i filmed this summer with my camp kids.

I thought i might post here, as this is the first time i have used china lanterns, and get some opinions about the look, light intensity, and perhaps what you might change in order to improve the look.

Thanks all for your input. Greatly appreciated.


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setup pics

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The microphone was actually much lower when we shot.
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(starting to wish i had some grip equipment to hang the laterns by.)
 
I saw your film and thought you did a great job. Thanks for posting some behind the scene shots. That is always so helpful.


Sure looks like a lot of set up for your mic. I am sure you are just using what is available to you. Not sure if you have already thought about this but, if you have a boom pole and one of these, it is a lot easier to set up your mic.

I just picked one up and I really like it.

Thanks again for posting.
 
oo thats really coool. unfortunately i don't have any C stands, and all my audio equipment, mic stands and so on, are at the drummers house.

Yeah, i definitely need to look into grip gear.
 
Looks great to me from what I can see here. I couldn't see the film from where I'm at just the stills.

Just the right amount of light in the background, blue tint behind (due to lighting from daylight flo's from the softbox and china lantern?) and to the side of the reader's face, warm glow from candle generated by the 650w fresnel with diffusion in front of it.

What wattages, exact color temps and bulbs did you use in the softbox and chinese lantern?
 
i had two chinas had 23w which gave out about 100 watts of cool light, i also had one in the back lamp, aiming down towards the background chair.
The softbox was a 1k arri with chimera, with two ctb gels on it to cover the entire surface. Then i had one fresnels 650 with diffusion and a cto gel on it, folded over four times to create that orangish candlelight effect. :)

I am looking forward to adding some of your companies lights to my kit, once i hav ea few bucks free and all of your models are out ( havent updated myself on the hmi's you were talking about )
 
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where you going for the dramatic 4:1 ratio? if so I dont think you needed those chinas there, I would have not used them in order to get a more dramatic effect
 
wasn't going for any ratio in specific. Just thought of trying to get a disney, kids movie look. And i lit until it looked reasonably good. And i knew anything too high in contrast would get rid of detail in my face which i did not want.
 
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I think the key light looks a little strong compared to the size of the candle. It seems like it's coming from more like the fireplace to the right of the frame. However It still looks great.
 
Stills look great. Any changes I'd suggest are purely personal preference.

I'd have liked to have seen his shoulders falling off into the shadows of the chair, while keeping the same amount of light on the background. His profile is just too distinct for my taste.
 
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