Tiago Pimentel

Thanks Stuart. Two questions, if I may: 1 - That vignette that seems to follow the light of the lamp, do you think it's the light setup or is it post production grading? 2 - I was trying to replicate this same lighting, but with just 4 lights, which is what I have available to work with. I have 4x 1k tungsten fresnels, scrims, bounces, silks, flags, etc. From what I can count, there are 5 or 6 different lights in this picture. Could you help me figure out how can I get a decent aproximation with 4 lights? Thanks!

Hi guys, I was wondering if anyone could help me break the lighting scheme on this still: It looks like there's a fresnel behind the practical, side lighting the male actor. There's obviously a rim light on the actress as well and a backlight daylight balanced to separate the background. I can't really tell if there's anything else in the room. The wall seems to have a nice round and diffused lighting that falls off in the door, but can't point my finger where it's coming from. Can anyone help? Thanks!

Thanks Phil. In order to work at a flat angle, the light would have to relatively low in height, right? Perhaps at the same height as the actual window of the room. Maybe even lower for the desired effect, not sure. Especially because in the center of the room there will be a little girl sitting on a chair, so if the light is supposed to hit her torso or legs, it has to be low, I guess.

Thanks David. Just one last question. Would you get the light high and point at the floor or leave it at a flat angle?

Btw, to those unfamiliar with the metric system, 10 square meters is around 108 square feet. All I have is 1k lights. They are dimmable but I'm unsure I should dim them or scrim them :)

Thanks david! For a 10m2 room, and using one fresnel, how much power would you say that fresnel should output? These lights are dimmable so maybe i could dim and avoid using the warming gel... but then a full cto might not be enough...

I don't have any PARs but the difference should be that my fresnels are just harder, so if get some diffusion, I might get the same effect, right? I was actually thinking of not placing any kind of diffusion and just add a 1/2 CTO on the tungsten fresnels to get the golden look into it (camera white balanced to 3200k). So I should point the fresnels at the floor or the legs, right? Can you guys see the picture I posted on the first post? I realized that I've put a dropbox link and I'm not sure everybody can access it. And I still haven't figure out how to upload pics in this forum... Thanks

Thanks Adam! That sounds better than what I going for. So basically the idea is spread two or three of my 1k tunsgten fresnels and point them directly at the floor or at least at low angles (probably a good idea to use the barn doors to direct the light). Since I'll have a practical (see link on first post), I'll need to balance the tunsgten that's simulating daylight. But it's supposed to be sunset. Would you use CTBs to balance to daylight or leave it without any gels? The practical is dimmable so I can also correct it to whatever color temperature I need. Thanks!

Hi guys, I'm shooting a short film and there is this scene that is shot inside a small room that takes place near sunset. I need to simulate the golden tones of the sun getting inside the room where a little girl is sitting at her table, drawing. I'm guessing I'll need haze to see the light but I'm having some problems imagining where to place the lights, with the room being so small... I took a photo of the room from the perspective of where the camera will be (please ignore the reflections on the mirror...). I have access only to tungsten lighting (3x 1k units). My idea was to put a 1k fresnel through a big diffusor and come up with some sort of way to flag the upper end in order to simulate the window. But there's just so little space inside the room that is hard to figure out where to place the lights. To make matters worse, her table has a mirror that needs to be there, so it makes everything harder since I have to be extra careful with unwanted reflections... I really need help to get creative here. Maybe if I rotate the table 45º to the right, placing the girl on her back against the camera and simulate the windows from the right side of the frame (where the real window of the room is). And of course the bed is distracting, so I'll probably put a different blanket there (something not white). Here's the JPEG: https://www.dropbox.com/home?preview=room+sunset_1.45.1.jpg Thank you for helping!

Btw, do the firecrest filters still suffer from quality control issues? I need some very neutral nd filters with minimal ir pollution and firecrest seem to deliver, but not sure about their quality control...

Problem is, in my country is not that easy to find that kind of stuff. Basically, my brother is going to nyc at the end of the month and he's bringing me a lot of filters: nds, ir cuts (a necessity for bmd cams) and diffusion filters. I'm getting all formatt firecrest except for the diffusors which apparently are going to be hollywood blackmagic :)

I guess the most important would be to perceive how the ursa mini 4.6ks image needs more or less softening than the alexa. So maybe i'll get both 1/8 and 1/4 to get a more cinematic and less digitally sharpened image. Do you agree?

Thanks david. Well, i wasn't thinking of using the diffusion so much to achieve a look, but more to avoid the digital look of ultra sharp sensors. I like that slight halation as long as it doesn't call atention to itself. I want to get a more organic image by softening unrealistic sharpened details. So, maybe the hollywood blackmagic then? Is 1/8 enough? For closeups as well? Thanks!

Thanks for your answer! Well, I'm really looking to get the most organic image I can get from a digital S35 sensor such as the Blackmagic Ursa Mini 4.6k. The sensor is very sharp and I fear it may be overly sharp (video-y) when is shooting under specific lighting conditions. I wanted to soften that ultrasharp edges that scream video instead of film and get great skintones and soft highlights. So which would you strongly recommend to get the job done? The Soft Fx or the White Frost? Hollywood Blackmagic? Which densities? Thanks once again!

Hello, I'm about to buy a Ursa mini camera (probably the 4.6k). I love the look but I feel most modern digital cameras, can benefit from soft diffusion especially under specific kind of lights, to take a bit of that digital edge of the ultra sharp sensors. I was wondering about the perfect diffusion filter that would take that video-y look and soften the light, give more flattering skin tones and more cinematic highlights. I'm not looking for a filter that would give me a dreamy look, but more of softlight image. Maybe the Hollywood Blackmagic? Two sets of 1/4 and 1/2 or would the effect be too much at 1/2? thank you!! Tiago