Andrew Ryan

Thanks. I'm not thinking of a pull stop in mid shot. More of what I meant is when you have two extreme's and you split the exposure for the wide. When you go in for the CU (new shot) and like you suggested add some more light or close down a bit (in the instance that you were a 1 1/2 in the wide) so its not as hot for the CU (so maybe you go a stop over) will their be a big jump in the look from shot to shot?

What happens in situations where your splitting the exposure for a wide shot and than punching in for the CU and may not need as much of the split? For example if you have someone walking that is backlit and you pan with them and now their side lit in the same shot you split the exposure so your highlights aren't too hot and your shadows aren't too black. Now when you go into the CU is it common to change the exposure to a more normal look? Not totally expose for normal because it may be hard to cut but if you were a stop and a half over on the side of the face in the wide and now your only a stop over for the CU is it a huge difference?

Shooting a spec car commercial for a project on the SR3 with super speeds. What is the best way to go about lighting. Angle of incidence equals angle of reflection so big soft sources that reflect would be the best I assume? I read some tips in here don't have the budget for huge sources or silks so what is a budget way of going about it? Kino's wrapped in diff? We do have an 8x8 and a 5k (our biggest source) could punch that through. What is the best way to meter it? I always use my incident. Will an incident give proper exposure? Worried that since cars are shiny they will reflect to much light and I'll wind up overexposing too much.

I've read about being careful with underexposing dark skinned actors but what about overexposing? Do you have to overexpose more for an effect that a light skinned actor? For example if I'm overexposing caucasian skin 2 stops for an effect to I have to overexpose darker skin more? My second question rises from a problem on a shoot I recently had. I was shooting in strong backlight and had about a 4 stop difference between the background and the front of my subject which was in shadow from the sunlight hitting behind. I was shooting on 250D. I underexposed the wide shots and CU's about a 1 1/3 to compensate. Is this to much? Thanks In Advance