Generation Gap

[GregW]

Finally got around to shooting this. The lasers were not powerful enough so I nixed them.

 

[DrEntropy]

Nicely done in spite of the laser omission! Sweet lighting. Great title, too.
The human factor is a great twist. Gotta call the shot thought provoking.

WAG: Ostrich? They're all dinosaurs in any event.

 

[GregW]

Yes, ostrich. There were 3 flashes used here. Main is upper camera left with barn doors and a grid to sharpen the light. Camera right is fill sitting inside an igloo cooler. Semi directional by turning to cooler to minimize spill onto the back wall. Third flash was way camera right to help pull the red color from the shot glasses.

 

[DrEntropy]

Love the Igloo cooler as a directional "lightbox" of sorts!

 

[Basil]

Yes, ostrich. There were 3 flashes used here. Main is upper camera left with barn doors and a grid to sharpen the light. Camera right is fill sitting inside an igloo cooler. Semi directional by turning to cooler to minimize spill onto the back wall. Third flash was way camera right to help pull the red color from the shot glasses.

Lighting is an art. You got it.

 

[DrEntropy]

Screeds, scrims, reflectors. diffusers... controlled lighting is indeed an art. The things available now take it to a level only wished for fifty years ago. Greg's use of a "soft Igloo" is a great example of understanding light behavior and control "out-of-the-box" if I may make a pun. I giggled over the use of what works for what was needed. I've even used styrofoam cups as off-camera flash diffusion in a pinch. Flash head vertical, the cup over the flash head. Guys are making money marketing gizmos doing the same thing with molded plastic. I'm more in the "Innovate, adapt, overcome!" camp.

And Greg has kinda "thrown down the gauntlet" with that eggstremely clever image.

 

[Basil]

Speaking of lighting, I sometimes chuckle when I watch old Andy Griffith reruns. There are many scenes, especially out doors where there are harsh shadows in the mid-day sun, where you can tell they are using a big reflector. For example, Barney and Andy crouched behind a buch and you see this big oval of reflected light being adjusted all around them. It almost looks like they are being hit with a big spot light.

 

[DrEntropy]

Klieg lights or reflectors most likely. Set lighting in those older productions is almost funny. And the "day-for-night" scenes as well. Things have changed!

 

[Basil]

Klieg lights or reflectors most likely. Set lighting in those older productions is almost funny. And the "day-for-night" scenes as well. Things have changed!

From the looks of it, my guess would be very large reflectors.

 

[GregW]

Maybe a carbon arc light. I've only seen one used once. Sunny day on a golf course scene. Really bright. The downside to them (other than smoke) was someone needed to monitor them all the time and adjust the length of carbon to maintain the arc.

 

[GregW]

Thank you both for the compliments. When I worked on set I was able to watch how A-list Directors of Photography did there magic. They of course didn't use flash, but the positioning and intensity of the lights are the same.

 

[DrEntropy]

That's one of the ways I got insight. Got studio lighting experience early but watching cinematographers light scenes while with AAVS in the Air Force taught me even more.

 

[DrEntropy]

Thank you both for the compliments. When I worked on set I was able to watch how A-list Directors of Photography did there magic. They of course didn't use flash, but the positioning and intensity of the lights are the same.

I would joke about the MoPic guys needing 18 frames a second to do what we did in 1/60th with a flash...

And the complements are well deserved.