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(Page 3 of 6 pages for this article < 1 2 3 4 5 > Last ») Filed under: Cameras •Lighting •Production • Ooops, we did it againWherein a small crew on a low budget makes an HVX-200 look vastly better than it ever should.
SHOT 2: The Musician
We shot this in a different room in the Boys and Girls club, a very small and very worn music room in the back of the building. It was maybe 8’ wide and 12’ deep, and we shot the musician in a corner of the room in front of some amps. Watching the way the musician held the guitar told me a lot about how to approach this setup. I knew I wanted to pop the guitar and his hands, so I set up a 2x3 Reflectix bounce behind his left shoulder that raked across that area. His right arm disappeared into the shadows a bit so I added a 4x4 Reflectix bounce from the other direction, only using a small portion of that surface for the bounce. This added some shine to the dark side of the musician’s right hand as well as adding a kick to the guitar. Last but not least I added a 4x4 bounce fill next to the camera. I kept it on the right side because I tend to like to fill from the key side, and as the 2x3 Reflectix was the brightest light in the shot I filled from that side to carry it around. Big soft sources from the direction of the camera feel very good to me: it’s a very smooth kind of light that feels ambient but not crazed, the way some ambient light can be. Sometimes the ambient light in a room can be too random and busy as fill light, and in those situations I use a big soft source near camera to exert some control. Plus it makes people look great, and nobody complains about that.
Next page: the art director…
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