Lighting by Example!

[jansik]

I took this shot about 10 years ago in my - then - Studio/Garage. This is 35mm copy of 4x5 transparency original. I took this shot few days after Shumaker/Levy Comet fragments bombarded surface of Jupiter (1994) making eleven craters of the size of Planet Earth each....Damned!... I thought... something like that could happen to us anytime...?!
Not having Strobes, I used Tungsten... as I recall this film took over 30min of combined exposure time. I remember standing there on Long Exposures and chasing mosquitos with the brush away from the subject. All in all it took 4 exposures - each one a different lighting setup - in following order...

1. Planet Earth
2. Metheorite
3. Fire
4. Stars

[freezer]

jansik,
would it be possible that you exchange your example images with JPEGs in better resolution? The GIF dithering destroys a lot of the quality and makes it harder to look at.

[jansik]

Hey Freezer...
This one is little bigger...
I dont like going too big because this is my home-made copy of 4x5 original and it does not look good when I enlarge it (sharpness, focus, color and all). And I dont have scan of 4x5.

[Dutchboy]

Excellent thread.

[knightly]

Feel free to contribute when you shoot stuff that is interesting or you feel looks good. See the first post for the posting format.

[freezer]

I have some examples here I want to share.

First I put up some final graded screen-shots of the film and you can try to guess the setup.
Afterwards I will post the lighting setup used.

The shots are from the short movie "Abheben" I lit in 2008, all shot on RED ONE.

Please click the preview images for the 2k samples.

1) Love scene in bed


2) At the cocktail bar


3) At the hooker's wall


4) Cash for love


5) She doesn't buy the excuses

[M1chae1]

I'm only still a beginner, so I don't know the lingo for all the light types or wattage....

1) One softbox

2. One light with white board.

3. Two lights...one on car actor, one on alley actor.

4. Same as # 3

5. Nat lighting with one light from upper right.


I'm totally just being simplistic about setup and wattage/type.

[M1chae1]

Here is a site (Shot on Red) that has some nice stuff. On this page, there are some great stills and the DP breaks down the light set up a few posts down from the images...

Useful.

http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?t=37144

[Uranium City]

These are from my short "Fatima's Ghosts":

fatima1.jpg

A soft box high above the camera, and a two tiny clamp lights to the right and left of the actors. Shining through the window are two clamp lights through some weeds we picked out of the parking lot outside and gently shook to indicate breeze. This was shot in the sales office of a disused piano store, and the window was actually looking onto the showroom, not outside. It was a piano-shaped window. We covered it with the blinds and made the sunlight outside with the two clamp lights. The curvature of the piano window (visible at the top right of the window) looked like the curvature of an exterior awning. Here is a picture of the setup; you can sort of guess where the lamps were:

fatima3.jpg

And now from the end of the film, in the piano warehouse:

fatima2.jpg

A clamp light low and to the left of the camera, casting the shadow on the young woman in the foreground. A softbox illuminating the wall behind the camera, out of frame, illuminating the walls just enough. The desklamp was a prop, it had a 60 watt bulb. Above the doorway in the background was a 100 watt bulb, and beyond that was daylight.