Jason Hinkle wrote:Nice shot Frank!
I always run into a lot of problems when I mix light sources but yours looks really balanced. Obviously you went with a really green-tinted grade, but from what I can see the window is not overly blue and everything else is not overly yellow.
Did you gel the window with CTO or do anything in the grade to get it all looking correct? Did the shot just lend itself to the mixed lighting because only the skin tones were lit up with tungsten..? Just curious - as many of us know it's quite a tricky shot when you're lighting with tungsten and also have daylight coming in the window. Thanks for sharing!
It's not a green tint grade, the walls actually are greenish, and yeah, some careful dialing in the colors.
No gels at all. Non of the light you see on their faces, hair, shoulders, is really coming from the window, it's my lighting.
Some of the "magic" of this shot, is a trick I learned from Dion Bebee (he did a lot of this in Gangster Squad). A frosted 110w flolight on the floor as fill. It's still a bit harsh, as you can see at the shadow of the collar on his neck. If I would do this again, I would bounce a 650w HMI on the floor to make it more organic and softer.
Camera was the EF with a cheapo EF-Nikon adapter from Ebay called "Kiwi".
Shot at 25p, 800iso, Heliopan IR filter and Genus Eclipse variND, dialed down to a hair under 100% zebras.