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What do you do in situations where you have a abundance of overhead fluorescent lighting like in an office? I'm shooting a short student project so obviously we don’t have the budget to use corrected bulbs. I have some 4x4 kinos that I will use for key should I gel them plus green? When I...

What do you do in instances where you have pretty much 50/50 of sunlight and shade? Do you use HMI's to fill in the shade areas or split the exposure? I was wondering how you keep your ratios balanced in instances where you might have a patch of shade from a tree than a patch of sunlight and so...

Thanks, that helps a lot. On that question I have a project coming up and the mood doesn't really call for any warmth from lighting. Certain scenes take place in a house and I want to have practicals and want to match them as close as I can to my tug. units. The best wattage I could find is...

Do you usually gel your light to match tug. practicals or ceiling lamps? Can you get away with just keep your light straight 32k on your subjects as long as the lamp isn't super orange like a candle flame. Thanks

What is a good unit to mimic a stage spotlight? I have a scene in an upcoming S16 short where a character is on a stage singing. I want to motivate a unit like a spotlight so I was thinking of using like a 2k (maybe with the lens off) and overexposing it a stop to make it feel a little hot like...

I actually just had an instance with a very dark skinned actor in a backlit night time scene. What I did was I set my backlight about a stop over and filled my actor to key level (using the incident reading to set the stop). The reflected reading of his skin was 2-2 1/2 stops under my incident...

What do you do in situations where you want to underexpose African American actors? I've searched through the forums and found situations where you may underexpose a face 1 stop that is backlight by the sun or 2 stops for moonlit backlight. Do you do the same for darker skinned actors? Or can...

When shooting under fluorescents and using a grey card to time out the green, do you also need to match your other lighting units to the fluorescents? If those units aren’t matched (HMI or tug) by taking out the green are color temps shifted?

How do you deal with subjects in front of windows? Do you balance the exposure or expose more for the background?

Thanks. Yup, I want the feeling of eyes adjusted to moonlight for some scenes and streetlight for others, giving the feeling of night. My concern just was 1 stop and a third under key would not be enough (which it isn't.) But I wanted to be postive that if I have a ratio where my fill is dark...

I'm coming upon a shoot for my last semester project. It has a lot of night scenes. I was just wondering with my exposure how can I replicate the feeling of eyes adjusted to darkness? I was thinking of underexposing my key a little more then a stop (may 1 and a half) and letting darker areas go...