Donovan Wilson Posted December 22, 2023 Share Posted December 22, 2023 I'm working on a music video and I want to create the feel of a direct flash style photograph for it. My guess is that its pretty simple but I thought I would ask here and see what you guys think. I really like the hyper-realistic affect it gives and it has a film noir/Weegee feel to the mood. Here is a video from Valentino for reference: Thanks for your help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member David Mullen ASC Posted December 22, 2023 Premium Member Share Posted December 22, 2023 Seems fine - in that video the light has a lot of fall-off as if it was spotted in at times. And I'm not sure it is mounted to the camera or handheld above the lens, maybe it depends. The thing is that this video wasn't only lit with this spot, the space has some ambience, whether that was just available light or added, otherwise just having one light might be too high-contrast. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Travis Shannon Posted December 22, 2023 Share Posted December 22, 2023 I ended up doing this gag on two separate shoots last week and both times we just on offed a bare aputure 1200d on the strobe setting. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donovan Wilson Posted December 22, 2023 Author Share Posted December 22, 2023 (edited) 5 hours ago, Travis Shannon said: I ended up doing this gag on two separate shoots last week and both times we just on offed a bare aputure 1200d on the strobe setting. By strobe do you mean flashing? I'm assuming this shoot was for stills. I'm hoping to get the effect on video. Edited December 22, 2023 by Donovan Wilson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donovan Wilson Posted December 22, 2023 Author Share Posted December 22, 2023 10 hours ago, David Mullen ASC said: Seems fine - in that video the light has a lot of fall-off as if it was spotted in at times. And I'm not sure it is mounted to the camera or handheld above the lens, maybe it depends. The thing is that this video wasn't only lit with this spot, the space has some ambience, whether that was just available light or added, otherwise just having one light might be too high-contrast. I think it makes sense to keep the light off the camera to get the direction of the shadows just right. I think I will analyze the video more and see if that's the case. I agree about the ambient light being a factor. How do you think the look works in terms of story telling? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albion Hockney Posted December 22, 2023 Share Posted December 22, 2023 light your background to a stop you like (generally 2 stops or so underexposed) then add in a bare direct light from the cameras direction. A good way to learn how to get what you like is just practice with a real strobe on a still camera balancing background and flash exposure levels. Its no different on film. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gregory Earls Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 It looks like the DP used some heavy vignetting in the D.I. as well. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donovan Wilson Posted January 3 Author Share Posted January 3 I'll keep that in mind. Good observation. Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Conley Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 On 12/22/2023 at 3:59 AM, Travis Shannon said: I ended up doing this gag on two separate shoots last week and both times we just on offed a bare aputure 1200d on the strobe setting. I think he wants the lighting look of on camera flash/strobes not the actual fx of strobe/flash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Travis Shannon Posted January 7 Share Posted January 7 On 12/22/2023 at 9:23 AM, Donovan Wilson said: By strobe do you mean flashing? I'm assuming this shoot was for stills. I'm hoping to get the effect on video. Neither shoot was stills, one was video and one was super 16mm film centered around fashion photography, the first was on Venice and the second was on SR3. And yeah by strobe I mean flashing (the light has a setting called strobe or sometimes paparazzi, it’s not an actual photo strobe) to simulate photo camera flash but you can also just run the light bare and direct and quickly on off it with a flag. If you want the look of flash then just flash a light, it just has to be powerful enough which an aputure has plenty of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Travis Shannon Posted January 7 Share Posted January 7 1 minute ago, Travis Shannon said: Neither shoot was stills, one was video and one was super 16mm film centered around fashion photography, the first was on Venice and the second was on SR3. And yeah by strobe I mean flashing (the light has a setting called strobe or sometimes paparazzi, it’s not an actual photo strobe) to simulate photo camera flash but you can also just run the light bare and direct and quickly on off it with a flag. If you want the look of flash then just flash a light, it just has to be powerful enough which an aputure has plenty of. And yeah if you want it constant like in that video you’d just need it direct and far back enough to get the falloff, spot it in, keep it directly behind camera and you should be good, worked for us 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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