Lighting outdoors can be a tabulate more difficult than lighting inside of the studio. But you can’t control the elements of a little bit of practice and create the same type of lighting environment outside. This time around, we are going to take and look at first controlling the sun and being able to work with it on your video shots. Then we’re going to take a look at creating a studio a lighting environment outside and lastly we are going to look at the process called DFN which is shooting during the day light to create a very night time environment. I’m Tom Skowronski and this is Outdoor Lighting.
If you look at Julia’s face right now, you can see that she’s very over expose and the sunlight is very harsh on her face right now. It’s very hot out here, this is one of the big problems we have in dealing with the sun. The simple solution here is to change our location. If we are to turn around the angle of our camera and have our camera’s back face the sun, Julie will no longer be such a harsh environment and the sun will be working more as a key light for here instead of a harsh backlight.
Now, that we’ve move the position of our camera you can see that Julie’s face is looking a little bit more natural it’s so over expose and our sun where act to utilizing as a key light just this up just to your environment.
Solution number two is going to be to move Julie under a tree and hide that sun so that we have more shade concealing her and we know how such harsh light. As you can see with the sunlight behind the trees up there and the branches is essentially being diffuse almost like we have a diffuser inside of the studio and we’re basically creating a much a more natural and much more controlled lighting situation for Julie outside. By taking the sunlight out of the equation with the use of the branches on the tree and changing our location. We’ve now created a lower contrast lighting scheme.
To add even more detail to Julie’s face and be already control the shadows even more, we are going to create more of a studio lighting environment outdoors. One of the more common set up for this type studio lighting environment outdoors is the use of the sun as a backlight. This is where you are going to position your subject that you’re filming with their back to the sun.
So, now it’s time introduce our second light and give you equation which is going to be our key light. We are using a simple co-reflector and when I catch the light and being awkward at Julie’s face, you can to the shadows once again without the reflector, with the reflector just clear up on her face. But now that we have our second light set up it’s time to introduce our third light, this nice piece of poster board and its going to act as our fill light by bouncing the light from the sun of the Julie’s face with the aide of our key light we have a full studio lighting environment.
The second set that we could look at when using the sun is actually putting the subject in front of the sun with the sun directly behind the cameraman. Now, is going to make the sun your key light and then all really going to need to do is fill in those shadows that they are going to come from that harsh lighting scheme.
Step number two on this lighting scheme is going to be to take our poster board and simply bringing over to Julie’s face. If you notice, those shadows go right away once again without the poster board and with the poster board. You see how she gets lead up right away that’s basically this board catching the sun and illuminating her face by bouncing the light. When your shooting during the day that actually capture the night time looking and feel. The first thing you need to do is hide the sky. How you do this is by moving away from sun and into a very shaded area.
The second step on this process is to seal the effect; you have to make a very believable that means wearing a jacket at night. We are going to stay in our video maker custom because it’s really hot here in California but for those of you at home you are going to be wear something that’s a little bit warmer their self that affect that you’re in the middle of the night and you guys are running around being sneaking.
Step number three to this process is checking your camera to think that you’re actually shooting at night and you are going to do this by two ways, the first of which is by lowering your exposure about one or two stops lower than this normally set during the day. The second part of tricking the camera is taking something that’s a little bit warmer in color such as manila envelope and while balancing your camera with it.
You can also try taking a blue lighting gel and putting all over the hood of you camera, sometimes the problem with this is things end up to blue and they are not dark enough and the effect doesn’t’ solve nearly as well. With the use of simple practical, you can help this effect even more. That’s the last step on this process, are you alright? Maybe you should use the flash light, it so dark out here you can’t even see anything can’t you know their might be zombies out here and you should really be careful. Yeah, use the flashlight see if you could find any.
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