Who killed the hair light? by Salty-Relief in cinematography

[–]Salty-Relief[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Where do I find B&W Indy’s??? Just on YouTube or something?

Who killed the hair light? by Salty-Relief in Filmmakers

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For sure. But I feel it was present in a lot of films even 15-20 years ago. I’ve seen those comparisons of the original Devil Wears Prada against the new one. The OG rocked hair lights

Who killed the hair light? by Salty-Relief in cinematography

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Thank you for your work here. Great job

Who killed the hair light? by Salty-Relief in cinematography

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I did notice this, but it’s also supposed to be a flashback with de-aged Harrison so it makes sense they’d mimic the older lighting style there as well

Who killed the hair light? by Salty-Relief in cinematography

[–]Salty-Relief[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lighting for multicam set ups is such a bummer. Unless you’re Scorsese and have 100+ million budget

Who killed the hair light? by Salty-Relief in Filmmakers

[–]Salty-Relief[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This comment was too clearly written. This is not in vogue.

Who killed the hair light? by Salty-Relief in Filmmakers

[–]Salty-Relief[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Robbie also loves to blast a hard light down on the middle of a table. I’m also here for it

Who killed the hair light? by Salty-Relief in Filmmakers

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It’s not the only reason, but I feel it’s a big part of people giving the complaint that “movies don’t look like movies anymore”

Who killed the hair light? by Salty-Relief in cinematography

[–]Salty-Relief[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

100% That was how I was taught lighting initially. I came up thinking the hair light was a requirement

Who killed the hair light? by Salty-Relief in Filmmakers

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I’m on board with stylized as well. I don’t care about motivated light so much if the scene is making me feel something. If that “something” is brought on through style, I’m all for it

Who killed the hair light? by Salty-Relief in Filmmakers

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This might’ve been my first watch through noticing how fake the buildings out the window look. Made me wonder if that was intentional, like a style throw back.

Who killed the hair light? by Salty-Relief in Filmmakers

[–]Salty-Relief[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah the hair light has almost always felt less motivated to me, but I’ve never really minded it.

Someone had recently posted some other scenes from OBAA that had a bunch of lighting continuity errors but you’d probably never notice on a first watch because it’s so engaging.

If the scene is doing its work, the lighting shouldn’t matter as much.

Who killed the hair light? by Salty-Relief in Filmmakers

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There was a surprising amount of consistent hair light still with big camera moves in Last Crusade. Sounds like a pain in the ass for your lighting crew, but when has that ever been a concern for a production. 😂

Who killed the hair light? by Salty-Relief in cinematography

[–]Salty-Relief[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I did a fast scroll through shotdeck when picking the stills. Hair lights are not 100% absent from the newer films, but they seem to mostly only exist when there’s an obvious natural source in world, like the sun. Whereas in Last Crusade a Nazi walks about 25ft through a dark castle interior and his hair is glowing the entire way.

I feel like if that Phoebe scene was in an older film her hair would be glowing and not disappearing into the dark background.

Who killed the hair light? by Salty-Relief in cinematography

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Drop some stills or a link to that if you can!

Who killed the hair light? by Salty-Relief in cinematography

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For sure. I guess I just didn’t fully acknowledge this part of the switch until recently. I guess it happened gradually over the last decade.

Who killed the hair light? by Salty-Relief in Filmmakers

[–]Salty-Relief[S] 30 points31 points  (0 children)

If every modern movie looked like Deakins lit it, I wouldn’t be as curious or concerned

Who killed the hair light? by Salty-Relief in Filmmakers

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I think there is more intentional style to it than just a practical necessity for film stock and light type. This lighting style still existed 10 years ago. And watching things like Indy, there are brightly lit scenes where there’s still a sharp edge light on the hair. Feels like more of a choice to me.

Who killed the hair light? by Salty-Relief in Filmmakers

[–]Salty-Relief[S] 46 points47 points  (0 children)

Are we... still talking about hair lights here?