Stop motion lightning advice.

[Irving Garcia]

This is my first post and i could need some help. I have to ligth a stop motion shortfilm in a couple of weeks and i would like some advice sinces ive never done it before. So any advice would be great. Thanks.

[Justin W. King]

If I where you I would get a very bright daylight balanced light (relative to your regular scene light) and use that for lightning. You can gel a tungsten light if needed, but you loose two stops of light, so you would have to consider that when picking the light. You expose for one frame, and you have a flash of lightning. I would suggest photographing a copy of the frame without lightning as well, incase you decide to do something different in post. I think shooting tests will allow you to figure out how you want to time the lightning. Good luck, I hope this helps. I would also test to figure how bright you want your lightning to be.

[Irving Garcia]

If I where you I would get a very bright daylight balanced light (relative to your regular scene light) and use that for lightning. You can gel a tungsten light if needed, but you loose two stops of light, so you would have to consider that when picking the light. You expose for one frame, and you have a flash of lightning. I would suggest photographing a copy of the frame without lightning as well, incase you decide to do something different in post. I think shooting tests will allow you to figure out how you want to time the lightning. Good luck, I hope this helps. I would also test to figure how bright you want your lightning to be.

 

Thanks, very helpful, i will do these tests, thanks again.

[Jenna Whitney]

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