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Lighting Simply for the RED

While my partner was helping art direct this shot my camera assistant, Phil Bowen, told him, “I’ve spent an entire day watching a crew light a shot like this.” And that’s what I was afraid of: this kind of shot is very difficult to make pretty in a hurry. It’s a lot of flat surfaces with no texture to break up the light. In other circumstances I’ve used a Source 4 Leiko with an out-of-focus pattern to create a dappled sunlight effect but that didn’t feel right here. Instead I decided to “fix it in post.”

Here’s the original:

The online editor, Craig Thomas, flipped the shot in post as it cut better that way with the shots that came before and after. Using Magic Bullet Looks I both darkened the edges of the shot and blurred them a little, to change what would otherwise be an ordinary and somewhat dull group of pictures into imagery that looks more interesting than what we’d see in every day life.

To light this I simply put a bounce card parallel to the pictures and lit it with a PAR. We added 1/4 minus green and 1/4 CTO to create a sunset look, although that backfired a little bit (read more about that here).

Finally we get to the last shot of the project, which, naturally, we shot first…

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