Thursday, 23 February 2017
Wednesday, 15 February 2017
Studio lighting tests
Here are some lighting tests I did in the studio against the backdrop. This video is a little frustrating to watch for me to watch, due to the fact that I don't actually focus the image properly until about 1:52.
This video with about 5 lights, although it does not look that way because 3 of those 5 are behind the studio wall. Those 3 are a fresnel and two red heads that were shining in through the window to imitate bright sunlight. The bright glare coming from behind and silhouetting Jacob from behind is the light coming through the window behind. The remaining 2 lights are a cool light which is lighting the back wall from above to the left of shot and a 60w light bulb inside a paper lampshade to light Jacob's face.
Although the lighting in this video looks quite nice, I would say that overall this test is a failure because it just looks as though we are lighting a guy in a studio for a photo shoot and doesn't really do anything dramatically for the scene. The colour temperatures do not give the impression of daylight and there is no real sense of where the key light source would be in the fiction of the scene.
This video with about 5 lights, although it does not look that way because 3 of those 5 are behind the studio wall. Those 3 are a fresnel and two red heads that were shining in through the window to imitate bright sunlight. The bright glare coming from behind and silhouetting Jacob from behind is the light coming through the window behind. The remaining 2 lights are a cool light which is lighting the back wall from above to the left of shot and a 60w light bulb inside a paper lampshade to light Jacob's face.
Although the lighting in this video looks quite nice, I would say that overall this test is a failure because it just looks as though we are lighting a guy in a studio for a photo shoot and doesn't really do anything dramatically for the scene. The colour temperatures do not give the impression of daylight and there is no real sense of where the key light source would be in the fiction of the scene.
Monday, 13 February 2017
Failed Kelvin tests with Blue red head
Failed Kelvin tests
I did some test where I tried to create something which looked like daylight using a Redhead Light and a Black Magic camera.
I basically put blue gel and some scrim on a redhead and then went through a few common colour temperature settings on the Black Magic.
(I used a long lens since I think Drew is a fan of shallow depths of field, so any practise I can get with the long lenses is welcome. I tend to be more of a wide angle guy myself, but the long lenses have their own charm as well)
A few major (and frankly quite embarrassing) mess ups to address before we start
The footage all looks really really dull. I don't think this has anything to do with the Kelvin or the lights, but rather because I relied too heavily on the image onscreen instead of metering the lighting, like I would have on 16mm. It appears that the screen on the Black Magic makes things appear brighter than they are and this has meant that loading it onto the computer reveals how dull all of the footage is. I believe this is due to the lens being on the wrong F stop.
All of these videos look so dull, that none of them really look like sunlight. On the camera screen I believe the best one was 3000k. It looked like dull cloudy sunlight, but on here it just looks rubbish.
2500k
https://vimeo.com/203839200
3000k
https://vimeo.com/203839611
This one is perhaps the best out of the lot. It looks as though the sun is almost set, but whoever lives there has not put the light on yet.
5000k
https://vimeo.com/203839776
8000k
https://vimeo.com/203839927
This one has a slightly warmer tone to it than the 3000k.
Conclusion
I will try this test again.
I did some test where I tried to create something which looked like daylight using a Redhead Light and a Black Magic camera.
I basically put blue gel and some scrim on a redhead and then went through a few common colour temperature settings on the Black Magic.
(I used a long lens since I think Drew is a fan of shallow depths of field, so any practise I can get with the long lenses is welcome. I tend to be more of a wide angle guy myself, but the long lenses have their own charm as well)
A few major (and frankly quite embarrassing) mess ups to address before we start
The footage all looks really really dull. I don't think this has anything to do with the Kelvin or the lights, but rather because I relied too heavily on the image onscreen instead of metering the lighting, like I would have on 16mm. It appears that the screen on the Black Magic makes things appear brighter than they are and this has meant that loading it onto the computer reveals how dull all of the footage is. I believe this is due to the lens being on the wrong F stop.
All of these videos look so dull, that none of them really look like sunlight. On the camera screen I believe the best one was 3000k. It looked like dull cloudy sunlight, but on here it just looks rubbish.
2500k
https://vimeo.com/203839200
3000k
https://vimeo.com/203839611
This one is perhaps the best out of the lot. It looks as though the sun is almost set, but whoever lives there has not put the light on yet.
5000k
https://vimeo.com/203839776
8000k
https://vimeo.com/203839927
This one has a slightly warmer tone to it than the 3000k.
Conclusion
I will try this test again.
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