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lighting outdoor night scene

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mrpink89

I have never lit an outdoor scene ever, hell I have barley lit any kind of scene. I am trying to light a dark corner of an abandon gas station. There are no street lights so it is completely dark. I could go to another spot but I really like this one and I enjoy the challenge.

The look I am going for a dark space lit up by the moon light. What kind of lights give that glow?
Also I am gonna need to bounce the light off of stuff has anybody used poster board before? How well does that hold up?
 
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Craftsman work lights 500w - 1Kw... Gelled

Moonlight is sunlight bouncing off the moon, so it's blue, but it's generally gelled a greenish blue, there are specific gels for this like there are for matching sunlight and tungsten.

Attach a bedsheet to the roof, and stretch it across the top of your scene to a frame of some sort to keep it tight... then blast the gelled work lights up into it and shoot your scene. That's probably the closest you're going to get on a budget...

A little larger budget, 3-Point your subject with heavy moonlight gel on the rim light and lighter moonlight gel on the key. Keep the fill almost non-existant, just enough to expose some detail in the shadow side. Then throw a lowish wattage bulb in a fixture on your gas station to give it a little orange texture, and shoot a large light across the distant background (trees or buildkings) with moonlight gel on in to give a little bit of color to the distant background. Hide this light behind the gas station.
 
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the sheet is ABOVE the scene out of the FRAME of the camera....
you then point a blue light up the white sheet and "bounce" the blue light back DOWN on to the scene..

The theory is its a lot easier (safer) to get a reflector up above the frame than it is to get an actual light source!

good example from:http://www.cinematography.com/index.php?showtopic=29466

The lights shining on the reflectors is inside the apartments pointing out the windows


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