It’s all about the tiny flaws that make your fake sunlight feel natural.
Creating realistic sunlight that you can manipulate to create a beautifully lit scene is the dream of many cinematographers. It’s one thing to recreate beautiful looking sunlight from powerful units, but it’s another to nail the type of sunlight that tells your viewer what time of day it is.
While we have many tips for creating natural-looking sunlight on a budget or finding the right ways to utilize the sun during its prime hours, we’ve never really covered how to create light that conveys a specific time of day. Luckily, Lewis Potts shows how he recreated afternoon sunlight in his cinematography breakdown for one of his projects. You can check out the full video here:
Recreating afternoon sunlight
Potts wanted to recreate afternoon sunlight for this ad that took place after school. Using his RED Komodo with Cooke Speed Panchro lenses, Potts knew the key to creating this late-afternoon energy was making sure that consistent hard light added enough contrast to the scene to create a sense of realism.
Author: Alyssa Miller
This article comes from No Film School and can be read on the original site.
