Post by Vince De Quattro on Apr 5, 2005 14:09:25 GMT -8
Peter Chanthanakone, Fall 2004
Q: I can't decide whether to shoot during the day or at magic hour (twilight). Daytime would give me a better image [no fuzziness from lack of light], but I really wouldn't have light beams & would have to 'fake' them in later on. Would doing that, along with color correction to 'night' be super-difficult [and doable?].
My other option, as mentioned above, is to shoot at twilight and color correct down a bit. It still wouldn't give us well-defined light cones...and wouldn't provide comparable image quality...so I'm torn.
A: Great question! Ok, I'll give you some pros and cons and then you can decide:
Daytime shoot.
1. Issue: Day for night color correction. Relatively easy to do, but try to avoid get a shot with alot of specular highlights and glints. If the shot is a lock-off (tripod) then you can paint them out. If it's hand held, it's going to be tough to knock down the high end of the dynamic range when you do your final cc.
2. Issue: Light cones. If you are locked off, you can fake these in with volumetric maya lights. I can show you how to create these if you don't already know how to do it. If you're not locked off, the matchmove for these might be difficult.
3. Issue: Shadows. A flat, decontrasted image might be best, so shooting during an overcast day helps with the day for night color correction later. Otherwise, you could attempt to stick a full moon into the shot to help sell the heavy directional shadows that you might capture in the daytime shot.
Night or Magic Hour (the half-hour or so of deeply saturated light at sunset and sunrise) shoot
1. Issue: Exposure. Obviously you'll need to open up your aperture as much as possible. Video cameras can handle the low light, but won't be able to resolve the glorious magic hour colors.
Q: I can't decide whether to shoot during the day or at magic hour (twilight). Daytime would give me a better image [no fuzziness from lack of light], but I really wouldn't have light beams & would have to 'fake' them in later on. Would doing that, along with color correction to 'night' be super-difficult [and doable?].
My other option, as mentioned above, is to shoot at twilight and color correct down a bit. It still wouldn't give us well-defined light cones...and wouldn't provide comparable image quality...so I'm torn.
A: Great question! Ok, I'll give you some pros and cons and then you can decide:
Daytime shoot.
1. Issue: Day for night color correction. Relatively easy to do, but try to avoid get a shot with alot of specular highlights and glints. If the shot is a lock-off (tripod) then you can paint them out. If it's hand held, it's going to be tough to knock down the high end of the dynamic range when you do your final cc.
2. Issue: Light cones. If you are locked off, you can fake these in with volumetric maya lights. I can show you how to create these if you don't already know how to do it. If you're not locked off, the matchmove for these might be difficult.
3. Issue: Shadows. A flat, decontrasted image might be best, so shooting during an overcast day helps with the day for night color correction later. Otherwise, you could attempt to stick a full moon into the shot to help sell the heavy directional shadows that you might capture in the daytime shot.
Night or Magic Hour (the half-hour or so of deeply saturated light at sunset and sunrise) shoot
1. Issue: Exposure. Obviously you'll need to open up your aperture as much as possible. Video cameras can handle the low light, but won't be able to resolve the glorious magic hour colors.