Cinematography Breakdown - Pull A Costanza

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[CrossCultureStudios]

Always good to soak up some game from Patrick…great stuff!

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I don’t understand how you could get these shots without blowing out the highlights in the background. It doesn’t look like they bounced any light? I don’t see any cache lights in their eyes from a bounce. Maybe you could power window that stuff back, but it seems like it would be hard to make that look good. I wish we had BTS photos of this

[robinprobyn]

Some irony that you have to be in the Roger league, to say, yeah lets just go with ambient light and neg fill, rather than 4 x 18K, s through a 20x20 silk from Tibet, made by virgins in a cave, that all the bros would set up for this scene .

[djgvinny]

correct me if im wrong, theres 2 different shots one is darker than the other one, i guess he used a neg on then he removed it on the next shot, at 6, 15 it looks like theres a bounce the one right before and its a different take.

[johannesdberg]

First of all I really admire your work!
I have a big problem and cant find a solution and wanted to ask you if you can help me.
I have watched 20+ Youtube videos on that topic bought some learning material on that subject and looked it up in several books but i still cant find a good answer. I would love to ask you if you have any idea.
My problem: I will shoot an short film where there are scenes indoor and outdoor. I learned a few ways how to expose but I dont know which way to use.
1. Using ETTR (Exposure to the right) for every scene and bring back the skin to the right IRE in post. I learned that this is wrong by someone who seems to know his stuff because the skintone will be different in every Shot.
2. Using a greycard/false color and expose the skin always the same way. The problem with this, the sky will probably clip and that will look really unprofessional.
3. Using something in between with flase color. I would use false color to have a lower limit for the skin tones. And if the background is very bright I will go down with the exposure until i hit that lower limit.
4. Using something in between using a grey card. I would expose for the grey card and if the Background is very bright i will underexpose 1 stopp and let parts of the background clip.
Which of these ways would you use or is there a even better way that i missed? I really need help with this thank you so much!

[osczzzptzzz]

Hi there, I'm trying to learn more about cinematography and I wanted to ask you a question: a big part of what you do here and what cinematography is about nowadays is lighting faces with contrast (but still using soft light emulating nature) to create depth in the image. But looking at classic movies from the 80s and earlier, you mostly see faces lit in a pretty flat way and with hard lighting. Still, the cinematography looks amazing and works for the story, and I wanted to ask you how that is possible? Is that because film is more forgiving to those details compared to digital?

[bakoenanakin]

Hey, I'm just a curious filmmaker. Why is it that its better to have the Sun/Moonlight backlit instead of front lit? [ Any can answer. ]