♪ [music] ♪ – Stick around at the
end of the lesson 'coz we got a great giveaway
for you this month. ♪ [music] ♪ – [narrator] Today on The Slanted Lens we're out shooting at the Orange
Empire Railway Museum. They gave us access to their steam train
with those World War II passenger cars. Very excited about shooting here. I've
wanted to do this shot for a long time and they are nice enough to give us
access to their trains so we can do it.
You know if you wanna really make their
day, like them on Facebook, it would really be a great boost for this little
museum out in the middle of nowhere. It's called Orange Empire Railway Museum. It's Facebook at Orange
Empire Railway Museum. Anyway, make their day.
More importantly than where we're shooting is how
we're shooting tonight. We're going to combine HMIs with
LEDs, I'm in love with this thought of LEDs and HMIs working
on the same set together. You know how much I love
LEDs, I wanna see tonight how they work when you got
a big gun HMI on set.
So let's get started to see
what we can do. We're lighting a very large area tonight. It's three-train cars
long, we're gonna need some serious power
to make this happen. Because we're shooting both
stills and video, we're going to need light everything
with constant light sources. Like I said, the area of
coverage is very large. It's gonna require a
very strong instrument in the background as
sort of the back light. We rented an HMI Arri
M18, it's 1800 watts seconds and runs up a
single 20 amp circuit. This is one of the most
powerful HMIs out there that runs on a regular
Edison 20 amp circuit. We're going to set the M18
deep in the background and rake it along the
side of the train car. We'll then put the Rosco 1900
smoker up and put a nice layer of smoke between the
light and the foreground.
This is how you get some great deep
background and it will look excellent. I'm really okay seeing the
light on the scene which it's gonna let it be in the
frame in most of the shots. The light has 1/2 blue
on it to kind of cool it off, that gives us a
starting point for our shot. I'm going to shoot a 150th of a second
at F5.0 and I'm gonna push the eyes on a 1250 to get the proper exposure
to make all this lights work together. Here's the first image with
just the HMI, you can see that we have an angled
instrument problem on the car. The light is on an angle,
it's gonna reflect right into the side
of that train car. If we have a lift or some kind of a way
to get that light higher, we'd wanna get it higher to get rid of that angle of
incident but we don't have a lift so we're gonna have to live with that angle of
incident and hope that the smoke diffuses enough that it won't be a problem in our
shot and I think that will be the case.
You know now that the broad strokes
for a lighting set-up tonight are laid with that HMI, we're going to add
LEDs to kinda paint in the image. The nice things about single
LCDs is that they allow us to use a single light
in many different ways. For our first light we're gonna place
a Northstar light inside the second car in the background which is just
a seven inch reflector, it's aimed out the window towards the ground
to create light window patterns on the walkway and it give some nice
light shafts in some of the images. We will put 1/2 CTO or warm GL on this
light just to warm it up a little bit. In this image you can see
those nice shafts of light coming through the windows
in the background. I love this look, this is kind of a
nice dreamy background for images. We will now at Northstar
light with the seven inch reflector on the camera's
left side to rim the couple. It's going to imitate the
look of that HMI in the background but we need
that strength up front.
The HMI is just too far back
there to rim the couple upfront. Again we're gonna put 1/2 blue on
that light just to cool it off. I love lives in a motivated by
something that feels real on set. In this case, we've got a rolled windows
that are going all the way down the train. I can put my key light inside the train
car just off the camera right side.
You don't see this train car but we're
going to use the windows to restrict the lights with only light certain
areas and then light our couple. Again it's an LED with a
seven inch reflector. We're shining at through though the
windows and they're very dirty so it softens the light up a lot and
gives us a nice look on their faces.
We've got a nice light on his face
because it keys to the window from the train on the right,
we've got a nice rim on her. But still a little too dark upfront,
we're gonna need to add one more light. Our last light is an
Octadome on a Northstar light just to the
camera right side. I'm gonna pan it towards them just
open up the shadows a little but and ten a little bit of that light
open up the side of the train. Our talent, she's in a black dress. It's
a little dark, his uniform is dark, she's dark, kinda makes the whole seen
a little difficult to put together. And so we had a red jacket there
that we put on her, it gave us a good color contrast, it
really helped her to stand out. Let's see how that changes the image. So here's some of the final
images with that red dress. You know it's now time to shoot
some video for our shot.
I really like to motivate the camera moves
on action so I'm going to have a person walk into the frame on
the camera left side, cross the couple and
get on the train. This means I can pan down
low and pan up to the couple off in the action
of the individual walking in and then I can
settle in to see our couple as they have
their intimate moment. I don't know how intimate it was but
as they have a moment as they kiss. You know switching back and forth of
the two couples I have like shoot some of the times one couple on the front and
then the next time the other couple. So we got a few shots
of each of them. I love the idea the old shots
I saw people kissing out the windows of the train as
they are leaving so I got the camera up high to get a
look at this couple kissing and be able to see the
couple on the background.
It was a really great look. I
took some of the images in the Photoshop and change it into
black and white just for fun. You know I went to image adjustments then
selected black and white, this brings up a panel with different color
sliders representing the different colors
in the spectrum. I pushed the magenta to
135% or even more and some of the images, this
brightened up her face and brightened up her dress
and helped her to stand out in the foreground of
that black and white. As you push that yellow
up, it brightens at the background, helps
him stand out better. This was an epic shoot, there was
a tremendous amount of work but after the shoot I feel very
comfortable mixing LEDs with HMIs. They are both daylight balanced,
they just work very well together. HMIs lay down those big lights to give
you the big look and then the LEDs go in to give you the little touches that kinda
light the shot and make it really work. You know I must say I'm
spoiled because we run six or eight of this LEDs
off from one circuit.
It's just so nice and you can run six
lights up from a single 20 amp circuit. That's unheard of in the past. Now the HMI different story, it's
gonna have it's own generator. Again I wanna thank the
Orange Empire Railway Museum for allowing us
to work on their museum. It was very cool of
them, we appreciate it very much because remember
I am a train nerd. So keep those cameras rolling
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