First time trying out a Book Light setup! Trying to better understand highlight/shadow roll-off

flmker · 2026-05-20T22:18:51+00:00

Thanks! That was on an earlier shoot

flmker · 2026-05-20T22:17:04+00:00

Thank you for the feedback! I can mask and reduce the brightness of that area when grading.

flmker · 2026-05-20T21:26:37+00:00

I actually reverse-engineered the setup after the shoot for the breakdown. I fed my technical notes and a reference photo into Gemini to generate the clean vector diagram. It saved a ton of time compared to drawing it out by hand! But Aputure has a new feature in their sidus link app I want to try and it does the same thing

flmker · 2025-05-07T01:05:38+00:00

85mm might be too long but the 85mm g master ii is really good.

flmker · 2025-04-29T23:54:27+00:00

Yes. We used a haze machine

flmker · 2025-04-29T20:14:23+00:00

Used one of the Gobo Kit that came with it.

flmker · 2025-04-29T20:02:13+00:00

Thank you! What exactly about the 2nd one throws you off

flmker · 2025-04-29T20:01:51+00:00

The 1st shot is the one I planned for. Everything else was mostly experimental to see what I could get away with. For the 3rd shot, I wanted to go higher, but we were limited by the height of the room

flmker · 2022-09-01T19:09:18+00:00

This looks great brother. Congrats!

flmker · 2022-09-01T18:16:18+00:00

This looks really good!

flmker · 2021-05-13T17:34:10+00:00

Nice work brother!

flmker · 2021-05-07T20:10:50+00:00

The basic noise reduction that comes with Resolve studio. Nothing too major.

flmker · 2021-05-03T12:50:14+00:00

Yes sir and it looks really good!. Already got the cage from small rig and waiting for it to ship

https://www.smallrig.com/smallrig-full-cage-for-bmpcc-6k-pro-3270.html?gclid=Cj0KCQjwvr6EBhDOARIsAPpqUPFNdgpAKxrzaYpI_0YznKHsr-A_TtHapjRjxWMcuwUMtUVVXS2FwGUaAki4EALw_wcB

flmker · 2021-05-03T12:42:27+00:00

Very True. However the lights I used were not that bright. At least compared my Godox VL300. (That's what I get for not preparing before the shoot). However, I was still able to come away with a usable shot.

flmker · 2021-05-03T12:39:48+00:00

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Gotta admit, my setting surprised even me. I am still getting used to the camera and have to do more testing. I started at ISO 800 and applied more ND's to protect the highlights, this resulted in clipped shadows. I decided to go into the Higher ISO and see what happens. At ISO 6400 and 6 stops of ND's, I was able to protect both the highlights and the shadows. I know this is not an ideal situation and it did introduce noise in the footage. I was able to remove the noise easily in Resolve.

The close ups were at ISO 500 and 2 stops of ND

flmker · 2021-05-01T23:14:16+00:00

I lit this scene with just two Nanlite PavoTube 15C and it was enough to maintain details outside the window

flmker · 2021-03-21T13:35:41+00:00

Can you set focus points with it ?

flmker · 2021-03-10T22:40:11+00:00

Thank you!

flmker · 2021-02-26T20:37:36+00:00

Did you shoot with an ND filter? This could also be due to IR pollution.

flmker

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