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Hey Guys, I have a shoot coming up doing day exterior in a forest, i have some ideas of how I want to approach it already but I'm really curious what other peoples expereinces have been and if they have any references to share. My biggest concern is the high contrast, we are shooting on a RED and with deep shadow and sun spots in the forest I am really worried about the contrast handling. Orginally my plan was to do this very natrually and bring out a 12x of ultra bounce and shiny board and find clearing where we could make sure the 12x would get exposure to the sun to bounce fill into frame but that looks like it might be difficult to do. We scouted the forest yesterday and it looks like there are kinda clearings with enough space to get the 12x up but I think the light hitting it will be pretty patchy and I don't know if it will really do much without full expsoure to the sun. The other option of course would be to convince the producer to get us a geny and a M40 or something but I really wanted to avoid that on this one. just curious if anyone has had any good expereince shooting with natrual light in the forest or has any references at hand from films. I want to creat a natrualistic asthetic and high contrast/having the talent underexposed is all good as long as the highlights arn't clipping and I keep enough shadow detail.