MarcFdez

please, any suggestions?

I've found one of the problems. I use an in-camera-meter (the reflected light meter of the EOS Rebel T2i), and I always record video with: Shutter speed: 1/50 ISO: 100 or 200 not far due to noise. Aperture: I change this according to the situation, 1.4, 2, 2.8… Ok, I always set the aperture by using the needle or diode of the LCD to know when I have achieved the proper combination. Well, I read that: reflected-light meters are designed to make all subjects appear average in brightness, the brightness equivalent to medium gray, they suggest camera settings that will overexpose (make too light) very dark subjects. I think I understand what happens to me. As I said, with my eyes I see a scene with a light subject and a dark background, but If I follow the suggested settings of reflected-light meter of my camera I record a too light shot. Should I modify the meter's exposure? How? I want to feel sure that I am exposing properly and I don't want any noise. Please, give me an example. I include an overhead diagram of the location. I hope with this you can help me better. You can draw on it. http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/193/locationmx.png/ The diagram shows this: We can see two actors sitting at the table, the walls are yellow. Behind one of them there is a small table. Behind the other there is a door with glasses and a curtain and behind these door there is a place in which I can hide lights. In front of the last actor there are two doors, but without the doors ;) I can place lights there. I don't want to use natural light. There is only one real lamp, in the ceiling, but I never use it. Please suggest me where to place my lights: My homemade softbox My chinese lantern Some practicals. And a new tungsten light that I bought. It is not necessary to use everything. Also tell me what light equipment you will use and where to place it. All for get a dark look like I said from the beginning. I am considering to buy blue gels or another light equipment because I want to get a dark look and color effectslike the film in the vimeo video. Especially the 1.42 minute, we can see blue light and practicals, in a room with a man and a girl, in a great dark look : The DOP of the film was Larry Smith, the same like Eyes Wide Shut and I think the color is also similar. Do you know what color gel it could be?

Thanks, but for instance I'd like to illuminate one scene in which two actors are sitting at the table. So, how can I light the scene to get the background darker? I want to know the things are used by a DP to get a dark look. How they set up the lighting equipment? I would be delighted if anyone could recommend me any kind of lighting equipment to do what I want, because I think all I have is probably useless. According to this, what kind of lighting equipment are used in cinema? I mean fluorescents, fresnels, pars…

Hi! I'll be the director of photography in a low budget short film and I have doubts. We'll use a Canon EOS Rebel T2i. I'm considering to light the short film such as Tom Antos explains in these tutorials: I want to use a home made soft box with a 500 watts halogen lamp and a chinese paper ball with a 100 watts bulb inside. The soft box as key light and the chinese Paper Ball as fill or backlight (I really don't know how to use it yet) What do you think about those videos? I really like them, and I can't find anything better on the net. I mean schemes to light a scene or something like that. I love the photography of the films of Stanley Kubrick. Where can I watch or read about what kind of lights or schemes did he use? The best thing I've found were the American Cinematographer articles, but I can't find any schemes. In which I'm interested is in how to get a dark film look such as the movies Eyes Wide Shut or the films of David Fincher like The Social Network, Seven or The Game. I made some tests only with the home made soft box (without the chinese paper ball yet) and I used a T4 lens. And to expose correctly I used ISO 800 with low light, but the video also looks over illuminated and flat. How can I get the low light look without the flat look like the great cinematographers? I bought the chinese lamp to avoid this flat look and I'll buy a T2.8 lens to use less light and only 100 ISO. But what scheme should I use or what else could I need?