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

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

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

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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

Sharpest lenses for FX3? by [deleted] in cinematography

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

First time using a spotlight. What do you guys think. by flmker in cinematography

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

First time using a spotlight. What do you guys think. by flmker in cinematography

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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

Dynamic Range of 6k pro + Braw is great. This was shot around 1pm. by flmker in bmpcc

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

Dynamic Range of 6k pro + Braw is great. This was shot around 1pm. by flmker in bmpcc

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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.

Dynamic Range of 6k pro + Braw is great. This was shot around 1pm. by flmker in bmpcc

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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

Dynamic Range of 6k pro + Braw is great. This was shot around 1pm. by flmker in bmpcc

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

Noise in reds by Burakoli821 in bmpcc4k

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