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Thank you David!
“It was convincing about half the time. One problem is that the filter needs a light source to hit it, like a window or a bright highlight, to really see the effect, but when someone passes between the window and the filter, the effect disappears momentarily, which is odd.”
I think that confirms my concerns. Having to take extra care so it doesn’t behave odd isn’t efficient or worth it.
I’ll still look into Smoque though because the way you use it on inserts makes a lot of sense, thanks for the tip!
There are also affordable but great alternatives to the Astera Titans (Godox, Nanlite ect). You might also consider flex-LEDs (e.g. Falcon Eyes) as they are lightweight, larger/soft sources and great for travel or mounting at ceilings ect and come in Bi-color and/or full RGB.
A word in general, Chinese / Korean brands (e.g. Aputure, Nanlite, Godox, Falcon Eyes) have come a long way the past 10 years, the LED light emitter quality is already there and built quality finally also catches up with “western” quality, but at much lower prices, so if your budget is low it might not be a bad idea to look there.
Are you referring to the Christian Bale rant on the set of ‘Terminator Salvation’ in 2009?
“Bale verbally goes off on the film’s cinematographer Shane Hurlbut, who had walked onto set to check a light during the filming of a scene. This was apparently the second time he had done this…”.
I would say that is a very different situation than adjusting the lights when the actors arrive on set, which is being done all the time on the productions I am on. But I also don’t know the workflow on bigger budget productions.
I always loved (but never tried) the “BroomCam”: rig a camera onto a broom for an ultra low ‘steadicam’.
” Is there any benefit to doing this versus a correct white balance in digital?!”
No. You could make tests but I don’t see this resulting in anything desirable.
What is holding the tunnel? If you sew several pieces together you could hide the seam near the scaffold. Lighting from outside could help to hide the seams too depending on the intensity of light and thickness of fabric.
“There was a serious flare but I placed a small square of white tape in the middle of the bulb facing camera and that dealt with the flare.”
Love it!
I don’t think it’s wrong, just too weak maybe.
If you had used a rim light, it would have separated the subject – but then it also would have looked exactly the same as thousands of other music videos shot against black. So there’s really no right or wrong.
“but a problem can arise when an actor comes in the next day with a different idea.”
Sooo, what happens if the idea is bad? How often does it happen that you have to change things for the worse because of an actor’s leverage?
