Sun light window

This photo appears to be a still photograph. This looks as though it was shot with natural light.
If you are talking about lighting this for film or video here's a starting point suggestion......
To create this lighting with tungsten lights, first you would have to gel the lights with a full blue
to balance them to daylight. You would need two units outside the window on the left & right
shooting through diffusion to hit the left and right inner walls as in the photos-at least 4Ks.
There is also light hitting the inner room & floor from above-maybe from a skylight. So you would need
a soft source from above to mimic this, say light bounced off a 12'x12'-so maybe a 4K for this. If you don't
have the room to light this at the top of your frame, you could cheat and bring the source from directly behind
the camera. I don't know what lights you have access to-but it would be better to use daylight balanced
lights(HMIs)-you could use smaller units and you wouldn't have to gel them.

Hope this helps some.
 
What he said, but you could try and time it so that the sun is in the right place. If you can do it quickly before the sun moves, you could get the right look naturally.

You can enhance the sunshine with reflectors angled outdoors.

Tungsten is probably not the way to go, and it would require a lot of HMI light to get the same thing. I prefer the free solar route if possible.
 
Thanks guys!

Unfortunately I don't have access to HMI, but almost everything else, yet maximum of 2K.

Real sunlight won't help due to the position of the window I have. Why is Tungsten out of the question?

Thanks again guys.
 
Tungsten isn't "out of the question", it's just that tungsten is extremely inefficient - the vast majority of the power consumed goes away as heat, not light. And it takes a LOT of light to equal that from the sun. This is why you see those BIG lights on commercial sets. Plus, tungsten light is the wrong color temp. To get it to look like sunlight, you have to filter it - another huge efficiency hit. Add bounce and diffusers and it's more and more power. . .

It's all possible, it's just a matter of time and $$$. If it's a one-time shot you can bounce sunlight a whole lot cheaper . . .

You get the idea.
 
Shoot at night, put some white diffusion on the outside of the window, such as light grid cloth, and use your two 2Ks (you'll need two 20 A circuits, ya know). Focus them carefully and don't waste any light.

Don't try to compete with the sun with tungsten fixtures gelled to daylight. They're no where near bright enough.
 
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