Hi,
I will be shooting on 16mm for the second time. The first time I shot on film, was 5 months ago from my balcony. I shot the sunset, every 6 seconds I opened the shutter and closed it to capture single frames, for 5 hours manually. Sounds crazy, but it was the only way. The sunset looks beautiful.
Now I'm moving onto a more challenging project. I will be shooting in one location "EXT. FOREST - DAY"
Depending on weather conditions. Snow or Rain.
I want to know some basic elements of apperture control.
I will only use the sun as a light.
If my light meter reads f11, the light around the surface. How will I set the apperture on the lens? If I'm shooting a Medium shot of Characters face?
If I set it to f11 - i will get the right exposure?
But what if I want to make the face of the actor look a stop less? would that underexpose.
2nd - what if the meter reads f11. But the backgrounf is filled with white snow, will the snow on the ground look very white if i set it to f11? What do i do with setting apperture.
3rd - if the meter reads f4 on the face of character abd read f11 in the background. Would you set the apperture at f4? or at f5.6?????????
As you can read, Im learning and experiementing. If you can provide any advice on lithing and setting appertures or filters.? it would help
