From the course: Video for Photographers: 2 Filmmaking on Location

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Working with natural light

Working with natural light

From the course: Video for Photographers: 2 Filmmaking on Location

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Working with natural light

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- The morning light, the beautiful morning light the sunrise, gone. Now we have, based on our location scouting we know we're going to have about ten hours of very bright, very harsh light. As you can see on the right side of my face, this is not a very pleasing light but we need to work with this. So what are we doing here? We're setting up a slider shot and the idea is to get a beautiful sliding shot moving from right to left with this 60-year-old tractor, the wheel in the foreground and this beautiful Ford logo in the background. Now, because of the sun's position, we're getting the logo a little bit hot, a little over-exposed. So we'll talk about that in a second. In terms of the slider, we're a small crew working with very little gear, three cases and very limited budget so we are bringing a very portable slider and using the same exact video tripod and the same exact monopod that we have been using all along and now become part of the slider kit. One of the two fluid heads is…

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