Lighting Day Interiors

[Josue Corredor]

Hey Guys! I’d like to know what your thoughts/experiences/preferences/approach about the topic below….

What’s your favorite way to light Day Interiors ?

Bounced Lighting, what kind of fabrics?  Ultrabounce? foam board? bluff bounce?

Or Lightning through ( m40 through difusión and which?  Do you use grid? How far ? )

Below I'm attaching two different frames I shot,

1. I did bounce n m40 + m18 on a foam board at 3.5 meters.

2. the other one I placed  the sources  2 m40 through a 1 stop silk at 5-6 meters.

 

 

[Adrian Sierkowski]

Really depends on the interior and the intent. I generally like to have soft lighting somehow and then will often want to add some hard light slashes in the background often with a jolekos type thing. 

These days I've gotten lazy and lucky enough to be able to do a lot with 1200ds, specifically so I can easily dim them, but if I'm working with the right budget and manpower I'll start opting for 4k/6k/9k hmis and scissor lifts ( if possible).

 

One of my east coast tricks is I'll often want to add a 2L or something similar right above the window to push soft light further into the interior from the same direction as whatever light happens to me there. 

Another trick that I sometimes like and sometimes hate is CLRS with something like a joker 1600 or a m40 from the ground into them for a hard kick but also throwing a 8x8 or 12x12 UB behind to give some softness as well.

 

Really all comes down to the reality of the location and budget you're working with.

[Josue Corredor]

thank you so much! @Adrian Sierkowski really good information overhere!

[Adrian Sierkowski]

My pleasure. If you're interested, here's a simple day int set up with just 2 lights.

Natural sunlight on the large paper windows camera right, then a totally naked 600X for the hot spot in the background.

On the close ups, just a 300x with a Litedome 150 played right off of camera at I think something like 10~15%

FX3, Base 800/ Cine EI 500, and something like a 2 or 2.8 with  1/8 bpm. I think white balance was around 6500k, but i don't really remember.

 

This also really isn't the right LUT for it, but it's all I had to get it out of SLOG since I don't have studio resolve. This is through lightworks which somehow plays back XAVC and with whatever Venice LUT they had built in the free version of lightworks

Edited December 18, 2023 by Adrian Sierkowski