Lighting Approach for Daytime Interior in a High Rise

[ericwann]

Hello Roger,

I am tasked with shooting several days in this high-rise office interior. I will need to see out the windows, and due to its height do all of my lighting from the interior. Do you have advice on an approach for balancing the interior to the exterior and attempting to keep consistent lighting over a dozen days? Or, if you’ve been in a similar lighting situation how did you handle it?

 

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[Roger Deakins]

Your location photo looks good. Nice large windows. When you are shooting somewhere like that its a matter of scheduling your shots so that you don’t suddenly get a shaft of sunlight in the middle of an. otherwise soft scene. The overheads could help, if you want to soften the look but I might just leave them off and use small daylight balanced lamps if really necessary.

[LucaM]

In such a scenario how would you deal with heavily changing weather conditions (in the case in which waiting for the right moment is not an available option). Let’s say, he has a clear sky the first day, a cloudy sky the second day and an heavy rain the third day?

[ericwann]

Roger Deakins wrote:

Your location photo looks good. Nice large windows. When you are shooting somewhere like that its a matter of scheduling your shots so that you don’t suddenly get a shaft of sunlight in the middle of an. otherwise soft scene. The overheads could help, if you want to soften the look but I might just leave them off and use small daylight balanced lamps if really necessary.

 

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