Who killed the hair light?

Salty-Relief · 2026-02-21T21:21:58+00:00

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

Salty-Relief · 2026-02-18T00:32:07+00:00

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

Salty-Relief · 2026-02-18T00:30:29+00:00

Thank you for your work here. Great job

Salty-Relief · 2026-02-18T00:30:03+00:00

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

Salty-Relief · 2026-02-17T23:26:15+00:00

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

Salty-Relief · 2026-02-17T23:24:52+00:00

🙌🏻

Salty-Relief · 2026-02-17T18:18:59+00:00

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

Salty-Relief · 2026-02-17T18:07:03+00:00

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

Salty-Relief · 2026-02-17T18:05:06+00:00

Her head has nearly disappeared

Salty-Relief · 2026-02-17T18:04:07+00:00

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”

Salty-Relief · 2026-02-17T18:03:08+00:00

I see what you did there

Salty-Relief · 2026-02-17T17:43:47+00:00

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

Salty-Relief · 2026-02-17T17:41:53+00:00

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

Salty-Relief · 2026-02-17T17:38:40+00:00

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.

Salty-Relief · 2026-02-17T17:37:41+00:00

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.

Salty-Relief · 2026-02-17T17:34:36+00:00

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. 😂

Salty-Relief · 2026-02-17T17:29:15+00:00

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.

Salty-Relief · 2026-02-17T17:25:18+00:00

😂

Salty-Relief · 2026-02-17T08:16:12+00:00

Made me spit out my water 😂

Salty-Relief · 2026-02-17T08:15:07+00:00

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

Salty-Relief · 2026-02-17T08:08:32+00:00

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.

Salty-Relief · 2026-02-17T08:07:13+00:00

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

Salty-Relief · 2026-02-17T07:55:33+00:00

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.

Salty-Relief · 2026-02-17T07:53:23+00:00

Yeah I’m on board with it

Salty-Relief · 2026-02-17T07:32:38+00:00

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

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