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A DP's perspective on multicamera lighting

A DP's perspective on multicamera lighting

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A DP's perspective on multicamera lighting

Male 1: After I've spoken to the creatives, like say the director or whoever is helping to make those decisions we'll decide on how we want it to look. And then I'll take a look at the practical room itself with practical lighting, whatever's set in place. And if it's something that we want to completely obliterate and start over from scratch because we've discussed that, we will go through the process of eliminating all of the natural light or practical light or stray light in the room and start from scratch. Or we'll decide that we like the field, and when we've, maybe we've chosen that location because of the quality of the light coming off the painted walls or the ways the windows are bringing in light. And we'll augment, we'll just, we'll just make our portraiture for our subjects, make them look nice, or we'll light the room and let the, our performers or our subjects walk through something we've prepared as a grander palette, so to speak, canvas. Try to go through a checklist…

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