Hi,
I'm shooting an ad film using a 3ccd mini dv cam. Its mostly body photography...i.e. showing body parts aesthetically in dark and light tones. but mostly the entire ad film has a sullen dark tone to it.
how should i shoot this scene?
am planning to use three clamp lights while shooting and make the scene dark during editing? coz if i just shoot in the dark i get noise.
is there any other suggestion to shoot do this kind of scene...? whats the best way to do this kind of closeup cinematagraphy of the body?
thank u ?8)?
Use a faster shutter speed.
I filmed at 1/1000 with my camera at medium light and had a pretty dark outcome. My camera sucks, though. You'll have to experiment with the numbers to get it right.
Use a properly lit greenscreen for the background and replace the green for black in post. Then you can worry about the darks and lights on the subject on site.
I'm just guessing but I should think it would work.
RJSchwarz
San Diego, CA
RJSchwarz
I would shoot the scene well lit with some nice contrast on the figures and then darken in post. If you shoot it too dark with dv, you can't avoid the noise. I think the green screen idea would help as well. Just keep the green screen evenly lit and as far back as you can from the subject. Keeping a slightly shallow depth of field to cause the green screen to be blurred will also help when keying out the green. Good luck.
Justin
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I know I'm getting old when the suggestions to solve simple lighting issues are "do it in post" and "use greenscreen".
The days of getting a good image on set are numbered...
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Post seems the hard way but DV doesn't always capture black the way we'd like it. Compensating for the compensation.
RJSchwarz
San Diego, CA
RJSchwarz
I would say darken it in post. However do not ignore the fact that you are still lighting your set as if its night. So don't light if like you would a day setting. I just shot a short where my two main characters are in a house with only a couple lights on. So i need it to look dark in the house. But i still have to have enough light not ot cause noise. So, i found if you use some harsh shadows or shadows with a very lite fill light then it looks good. It will really look like there is just one lamp on. But for that one main light you have to use a powerful light. I set mine up with a Homedepot light with cloth over it. Then i turned on whatever light (if any) were over head (make sure thats out of shot) then i either put no fill light on the other side or i just reflected it with a reflector.
So my main suggestion would be to use more main light and less fill light then usual. It gives it a very Million Dollar Baby type of look. Then you can fix it up in post. Remeber though, you can always have too much light and fix it later but if you under light it then thats a different story. Good Luck
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