nir evron Posted February 9, 2005 Share Posted February 9, 2005 hi i will be shooting a short film over easter. i plan on shooting a landscape at night without any artificial lights. the scenes will be lit only by moonilght and stars. i expect the results to be dark and with low-contrast. thats what i want to achieve. i am looking for a color negative film stock. was thinking of the reala 500 pushed +1 stop. how would that film react for the push ? what about Tungsten film ? there wont be any people in the shots, just a landscape and forests. i would like to get a dark image but not a completly black one, an image that still hold details in the shadows. the sky would probably be rendered brighter than the ground. i would like to have as little grain as possible but i am aware of the speed/grain trade-off. a voice-over will be added on top of the visuals.i would appriciate any comment or suggestion... thank you! nir evron nir_evron@yahoo.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member John Pytlak RIP Posted February 9, 2005 Premium Member Share Posted February 9, 2005 hii will be shooting a short film over easter. i plan on shooting a landscape at night without any artificial lights. the scenes will be lit only by moonilght and stars. i expect the results to be dark and with low-contrast. thats what i want to achieve. i am looking for a color negative film stock. was thinking of the reala 500 pushed +1 stop. how would that film react for the push ? what about Tungsten film ? there wont be any people in the shots, just a landscape and forests. i would like to get a dark image but not a completly black one, an image that still hold details in the shadows. the sky would probably be rendered brighter than the ground. i would like to have as little grain as possible but i am aware of the speed/grain trade-off. a voice-over will be added on top of the visuals.i would appriciate any comment or suggestion... thank you! nir evron nir_evron@yahoo.com <{POST_SNAPBACK}> The light from a full moon is only about 0.03 footcandles: http://www.darksky.org/infoshts/is114.html The full moon provides surprisingly adequate non-glaring and uniform illumination at just 0.03 footcandles! Here are some links to information: http://www.cinematography.net/Pages%20DW/W...rSaysGoHome.htm You will either need to use a long exposure time per frame, or an image intensifier (monochrome night vision scope, as is sometimes used by newscrews in Iraq). There is not enough light for normal video or even the highest speed film at 24fps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nathan D. Lee Posted February 18, 2005 Share Posted February 18, 2005 This effect was done on the film "The Stonecutter" shot by Neal Fredricks. He talks about it breifly in American Cinematographer September 2003, page 24 to be exact. He used Vision 800T 5289, using a Zeiss Super Speed Prime at T1.3 and shot at 2 frames per second. Though i hevent seen this film it supposedly worked out pretty good. Check out the film it may give you an idea. Hope that helps, good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Kevin Zanit Posted February 18, 2005 Premium Member Share Posted February 18, 2005 It's a shame he can?t be here to talk about it himself. I am sure he would have. Kevin Zanit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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