Recreating Daylight
Recreating Daylight
Understanding the basics of daylight allows us to better recreate it, both naturally and cinematically, using lighting and color. In this lesson, Rob walks you through the way daylight works naturally, in terms of both quality and color - demonstrating how simply having the knowledge of these qualities will allow you to translate them into an image lit with intention - enabling you to plan, shoot and light for pretty much any daytime situation.
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What You'll Learn
In this course, you'll work with, motivate and recreate daylight entirely with lighting
INTRODUCTION
What you'll learn on the course and how you'll be able to utilize this knowledge to light for daylight scenes.
DAYLIGHT BASICS
Breaking down how daylight works naturally and how recreating it for film can cause challenges.
WORKING WITH DAYLIGHT
How you can use lighting modifiers, color temperature and your camera's white balance, to work with daylight and create both realistic and stylistic daylight setups.
MOTIVATING DAYLIGHT
How to work with and match existing daylight within your scene.
RECREATING DAYLIGHT
How to plan and shoot for a small scene - working with and recreating daylight entirely, utilizing all the knowledge from previous sections.
CONCLUSION
How an initial failure has allowed us to learn about daylight, how to plan and implement that knowledge - and how this ultimately improves our craft and our own creative voice.
Rob Ellis
Rob Ellis is a freelance cinematographer and photographer with a passion for image-making and the intricacies involved in the creation of images.
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