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Christopher Norin

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  1. This question concerns a specific shot I found, shot by David Mullen on this site. I'm curious how it was lit in terms of color. There's a very obvious but beautiful color contrast with the background washed in blue, and foreground more neutral. Are we seeing two sources of light here? Sincerely, Christopher
  2. Great! I'm really trying to get an understanding of this. I have a project in the near future where I'll need to light a 450x450 feet area. I don't yet have the experience to know what I need to bring to have it covered. Therefor, a simple way of calculating amount of I need for a given helps immensely. Thanks again! Christopher
  3. Adrian, I appreciate your answer. It helped me a lot! Christopher
  4. I want to add that I've been using pCam's scene illumination but it doesn't tell me how much light I would need to light an area of any given size. As far as I can tell at least.
  5. Hi! I'm looking for a relatively simple way of calculating the amount of light I would need to illuminate any given area. Ofcourse, thus depends on many factors; size of the area, how far away the lights need to be etc. Given that you know these two factors, how would you calculate the wattage and number of lights? I've looked around but haven't been able to find a simple way of going about it, I would appreciate any help you could provide. Best, Christopher
  6. It looks like it was all "lit" with bouncers. I don't feel it has the quality of electric light.
  7. Thanks! I apors Kate your respons. We endes up not lighting the wides at all, and used reflectors for some nice contrast on the closeups.
  8. Additional thoughts. I plan on using ultra contrast filters for my wide shot, to lessen the impact of shadows (unavoidable) in the kind of setup. Is it going over-kill with lights when flags might be sufficient to add contrast? Christopher
  9. Okay, a topic re-starter! I've heard of problems with ultra contrast filters when moving the camera a lot. I haven't tested it myself, but I've been warned of strange artifacts when doing extensive camera moves. This has me worried sience I'm planning on using it on a few outdoors steadi moves. Any thoughts?
  10. Hi! I'm shooting a scene at a crossing, mid-day. It'll be shot at 35mm or wider pretty much from where the photo was shot. Five actors going to act out a scene and do some dancing in the middle of the crossing. The weather forecast predicts an overcast day, and I'm unsure of to light the scene. My idea, this far, is to put up big reflectors (20' x 20') behind the camera to brighten the actors, else, I guess there's a risk of "silhouette" them. To add some contrast, especially on the actors, I'm thinking of putting up 3 2kW gelled tungsten lights of to the left of the shot. Does anything of this make sense? And what would you do?
  11. Thanks for your response! You're absolutely right, the story should motivate my decisions. In this case, the lighting shouldn't do more than communicate the authenticity of the environment - a library. The subject, a young boy (12 yr old), will sit on the floor interacting with an iphone for the duration of the scene. I do have a lot of lights for the space, 19x6 ft. The practicals are 2-3 flourescent lights stuck on the ceĆ­ling. How would you go about lighting the scene, with the information I've provided? I do have access to 2 softboxes 1x1 as well. I appreciate your help! Christopher
  12. Hi!! I'm shooting a scene in a tight space with a Canon 7d, but I'm unsure how to light it. This is how the scene looks. I apologize for the horrible floor plan. The subject will be sitting on the floor pressed into a corner of 2 shelves. All I've got to light with are three 300W redheads, two 800W redheads, and two Kinop Flos (4 bank). All with regular stands. The space is somewhat lit with flourescents. My idea was light the subject from above with a 300W, and a reflector on his face. What are your recomendations? How would you light it? Best, Christopher
  13. Lilongwe Wildlife Centre - July 2010 docu-project http://vimeo.com/14027750 This 11-minute piece is something of an introduction to the Lilongwe Wildlife Centre in Malawi. I volunteered at the centre 4 years ago, and thought this would make a good opportunity to go back and see how things have developed. I shot this over 3 weeks in Lilongwe, Malawi on a Canon 7D. This is the first thing I've shot with a DSLR. I was really strapped for cash and couldn't afford the accessories I felt I needed, but my philosophy is: you make do. I knew there was two bits of essentials I knew I couldn't afford, the Z-finder and some kind of rig. In hindsight, a (vari) ND filter would have been nice to get a shallower depth of field, but I just couldn't afford it. I thought a monopod would be great as stability but it didn't work for me. It still shook an awful lot. Instead, I used my (stills) tripod as a "rig", with the handle over my shoulder. It was a bit cumbersome but it worked. It was all shot, edited (FCP), and graded (FCP's build-in tools) on location in Africa. I'd appreciate if you'd pick this piece apart and tell me what you liked and what you didn't. Tell me what I could have done better in terms of operating, editing, grading etc etc. I would really appreciate it! Christopher _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Technical specs Canon EOS 7D Sigma 18-50mm 2.8 (brought a Canon 50mm 1.4 but never used it) Rode VideoMic 3 x batteries 3 x CF cards (2 x 8GB, 1 x 16 GB) Stills tripod Monopod Shot on ISO 160 and 1250.
  14. That's true. I just wasn't sure about the pros and cons with balancing correctly if you want a specific look.
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