the more I watch NOPE the stranger it actually looks to me, I was just reading that all of the skies even during the day are VFX replacements so they could control clouds, stars etc. I didn't bother diving it into in my video because it's such a can of worms - Jurassic Park's T-Rex sequence is a really good example of a night scene with absolutely no source continuity. Spielberg adds hair lights and kickers all over the place for the Jeep interiors, but exteriors are one giant sky source (the moon) narratively only the moon exists as light because the power is out, but Spielberg never takes it literally. It just always looks good and our brains never think twice about it. thanks for the thoughts.

@lewispotts

Жыл бұрын

Yeah man it's hard to choose what information / how deep to go into it with these short videos. Loved your video about Nope. I'll have to re watch that Jurassic Park scene!

@ImTweeZy

Жыл бұрын

I think that works if you cut between wide shots to close-ups, but you are extremely limited in your camera angles and cutting options. but this is usually the best way to light things in general, I noticed the best cinematographers say fuck continuity and as long as the colors and contrast ratios are correct it will look good and serve the story.

@yanndick

Жыл бұрын

Spielberg does this in most movies. As long as a scene works visually, the continuity about the exact sources of light is not important. In E.T., check the scene where Elliot makes E.T. enter his bedroom : the camera changes the points of view but the shadows on the floors are always directing to camera. Visually, for the audience, the continuity seems respected but once you realized that about the shadows, you realized you've been tricked

@robertmarsh1338

Жыл бұрын

I made a video to outline how they did the night scenes on Nope as best I could. kzread.info/dash/bejne/iah4mKmzaJOZqKw.html

@MePeterNicholls

Жыл бұрын

Yup when I was at film school, convincing my peers that we didn’t have to be literal about night or black out etc.

These are as therapeutic as they are informational. Please don't stop releasing these.

I would suggest “screen” over “lighten”, that way every pixel is made up of every layer, it tends to look more natural

I can’t believe this is free. I feel like this is the stuff that I should’ve learned in film school.

This technique looks like a fantastic solution for day to night. But in the Knives Out shot, they had a character moving through the composite. I wonder how much there is to consider when the shot is a little more dynamic like that. Especially if the character gets near the buildings or practicals. Anyway, thanks for the tip! Might try some tests to wrap my head around dynamic shots.

@joemmatthews

Жыл бұрын

I have this same question. Would love to see another video explaining how to have a character moving through the scene, or having camera movement as well.

@ViralVideos-pr2oi

Жыл бұрын

@@joemmatthews would love this as well! would be a game changer

@VOIDSTUFF

Жыл бұрын

I think it would just be a matter of rotoscoping the character. Notice in the shot in knives out the camera doesn’t move - there’s only a digital camera zoom added in post to to add a little extra life to the shot

@ViralVideos-pr2oi

Жыл бұрын

@@VOIDSTUFF what do you mean by rotoscoping?

@VOIDSTUFF

Жыл бұрын

@@ViralVideos-pr2oi it’s a means of going through and cutting out and object or person from a shot when they aren’t against a blue/green screen. Sometimes frame by frame. It’s a pain.. The term’s also used in animation for when they trace over film performances to get the motion right. Eg. Titan A.E.

Sweet video. I do the same thing when shooting interviews if I can't control light through windows in the background. I grab a plate at a different exposure and comp it in later

@davidmcsween

Жыл бұрын

Yeah this is quite a bit easier to accomplish on location with limited time/access. City skies already have a lot of haze and reflected light on clouds. And dragging the shutter to 360 or even timelapsing a bit (longer exposures) will smooth out any noise.

1 minute in and I subscribed, you've got everything. Solid audio, great story telling, good pacing and clear expectations in the video. gonna be watching regularly

@cobeycobb

Жыл бұрын

Ditto

Dude, DUDE!!!! As someone who's extremely fond of writing night scenes, this is a fucking game changer!

I’ve done something similar but with a 600d. Where I really needed 3 lights but only had one. I just lit the talent. Then moved the lights where I would have placed them if I had more lights. Shot that plate and comped it all in and used power windows to create a better shape. It Worked.

@dunyamedia

Жыл бұрын

I’ve been thinking of trying this!!! It’s how you would light a miniature… so why not a full size scene? happy to hear it worked!!

@Patrick-jj5nh

Жыл бұрын

whats power windows?

@KurtCollins

Жыл бұрын

@@Patrick-jj5nh it’s a very useful tool in Davinci Resolve

"I dunno, It's late, It's fucking dark obviously" hahaha love it!

This is sick. I never realized how custom an exterior shot can be since it’s often stationary. Just go to town layering. Great vid. You kinda make me want to do a little KZread channel…

Your final looks awesome. Kind of a surreal look with this technique. You can see more than you should be able to, which is perfect for the magic of film

Nicely done! These day for night shots/composites are really stepping up production quality. It'd sell the shot even more if you can have a motion controlled slider that can move the camera just ever so slightly. Even 5 inches of travel would make a huge difference.

Incredible work Lewis. Really loving your channel. Very inspiring and approachable. Keep it up!

Reminds me of when I used to shoot Landscape photos. This technique is very common there

Love it. Also a huge Yedlin fan. Well at least his approach to color.

@YuvalAloni

Жыл бұрын

If only I could understand half the things he's talking about...

@lewispotts

Жыл бұрын

Thanks man!

Leveling up the craft. Thank you for sharing!

Really next level stuff here man. Thank you for sharing!

Nice. I've done day for night in the woods before. But now I'm gonna try this compositing version whenever. 👍

Thanks for the demonstration!

well done, effective small tutorial at great length with many applications

Surprised how well that composite worked... that's awesome.

This is a fantastic bit of information for anyone seeking an alternative for night shots. Thank you!

Dude...this is awesome. Can't wait to try this.

This is beautiful. Reminded me of Rene Magrete's painting "The empire of the light".

You are a living god among n, a legend worthy of praise. What you've uploaded here, will echo into eternity!

Excellent, thank you for the works!

What a gorgeous result! Nice work

This is realy awesome compositing idea and results look sweet. I will have to try it myself. Great video

Definitely going to try this!

Nice job on your shot. Beautiful final. The only thing I would have emphasized was you taping the spot on the ground where your tripod legs were. Matching the exact position of your camera is critical to get it right.Cheers

You killed it! Excellent job and I'm definitely gunna try this out!

Phantastic stuff, thanks for sharing

Amazing brother love this idea of compositing differently exposed footages and creating very different lighting. Very useful tip for low budget film makers. Thank you

Really good video. I tried shooting day for night a year ago in Canberra for a short film competition at my work. I never finished it. I was pretty new to keying and my idea involved a lot of sky replacements and tracking. I'll still hopefully shoot it one day and I'll come back to this to remember how you did it.

Excellent commentary and fx walkthrough. I will definitely give this technique a go for night time shots. I am excited about experimenting with it in between projects. Thanks so much.

Fantastic tutorial, keep up the great videos!

Wow, that was great!

Really cool technique here! I enjoyed the deep dive

Really cool video! This reminds me a lot of the principles used when shooting HDR photography.

I loved every minute of this video and I really appreciated the effort you put into it to show the extra examples

@MurrayEnders

Жыл бұрын

I also really liked the look you did for the talk to camera and vlog sections, post tutorial?

I actually don't mind that lighting change in The Sinner - it almost reflects what the human eye does with adjusting to the lights that are immediately nearest to us - street lights for example, and then not being able to see dark areas far away because they eye is adjusting for the bright street light. but when there are no lights at all you can see so much further into the dark. Kind of works for me, but I may be an exception haha. The trick with the IMAX and Infrared camera is something that Hoyte Van Hoytema did previously on Ad Astra to get the right effect for a fight scene on the moon. The day and night blending effect is pretty cool and gives a nice dusk into full night effect!

Super Helpful!

Brilliant stuff man !

awesome tutorial as always. your choice of music is perfect

Definitely going to have to try this out!

I think this is just the way to film night scenes period. Looks so good

This was a great test, nicely done!

Cool technique, thanks for sharing

The dappled light shining through the trees and hitting the house in the final result feels a little off to me, but on the whole, this looks very good. Bravo!

that's turn out pretty good btw! thanks for sharing with us Lewis

Amazing results at the end! You did a great job. And also, amazing video altogether.

Great video and fantastically warm fluffy onesie! 😉. Thanks for doing the video 👍🏻👍🏻

This was so cool! Gonna figure out how this can be done and have a person/people in the scene.

Look up the making of the small budget independent movie cosmos. They replaced parts of the sky at night. Great stuff.

Great ! Thanks for your valuable guidance !

Freeking amazing dude !!! Love the night composition

Great video thanks Lewis, I'm going to give it a try myself. Your videos are very informative, thanks.

been wanting to try that with edelkrone sliders! cheers mate!

This is so awesome, definitely doing this on my next shoot, thanks bud!

wow , this is the best tutorial , thanks so much

Love this 🔥🔥 Reminds me a bit of shooting long exposure film photography at night! Definitely going to try this 🙏🏼🙌🏼

Excellent! 👌 Thanks. ☺️

great info. Been doing this sort of stuff with real estate photography for years now, with a bit more tweaking. Interesting to try this sort of stuff for moco set ups.

I love what you accomplished! I used to produce the marketing assets for a company that sold lighted sports products and I could never get that proper look I was going for. It was always too dark or too fake. This is the key.

niiice, beautiful video!!! Both informational and pratical. Thank you

Thanks for the inspiration! Something to do this weekend. I have not tried a day for night shot yet, but know it will come up at some point. I have done the reverse with photography, a long exposure during a full moon and the moon blew out just like the sun. What I think is inherent to getting it real close is the bounce. Take a light with no reflector, and you get the super hard shadows, take a same light bounce it off a white card, and you get what the moon is doing, bouncing sunlight off the “whiteish” surface. I would like to try shooting the day plates while overcast, hazy, dawn or dusk, just to kill those hard shadows. Then to step it up further, use a sun and moon tracking app to see how close you can get positions to line up, or at least angles above the horizon. Great work.

Amazing! Starting to be a big fan of yours.

I actually terribly enjoyed watching that . Bravo!

Ahhh, I know it'll be a great day if Lewis posted

Achievement unlocked is definitely the right way to put it

That is a great hack. I can't wait to try it. Rock on Brother.

That’s a really cool look!

Looks very natural!

the video is great with all the compositions but can you do a shot with a person, maybe walking out of the house and going back inside...just to see how lighting (focused on the person) would look like

Great technique. Never heard of this before. Going to give it a go though.

Great video, thank you! One thing that intrigues me: how to handle if a person moves in the frame? How it affects post processing?

My favorite DP is back!!!!

Really fantastic.

Can't believe I just discovered your channel. Love your content!

It's Beautiful...Geat Job!

You can use a similar technique to implement lighting interaction from your vfx elements to your live action elements

Nicely done!

LOVE LOVE LOVE

This is Magic !!!

Looks good!

That’s really good! More for the tool set

Sick video Lewis!! My wife and I just watched that season of the sinner!! Love a good mystery

awesome breakdown

Mr Potts, this is brilliant 👏🏼 Didn't know this technique existed, Ill be sure to look out for it in films I see from now on.

I'd love to see the more detailed process in Dissolve on how you achieves this along with exact camera settings / specs.

great video ! Another technique, that is a little more specific but some people will use a light and then move it around to light different areas of the scene and composite it together in post while deleting the source/lamp. Both of these techniques are extremely limited as soon as things start moving unfortunately, which is why I believe they had a green screen in front of Chris in the knives out example.

Very cool!

That worked extremely well. Presumably for a moving shot, you would need a motion control rig?

Well done! Gonna try this :)

That final shot looked great! Good job! Better than the knives out example if you ask me.

Great stuff!

I saw a really low budget shot-on-video Bigfoot movie where they actually shot scenes at night, but then did the blue tint anyway as if they were doing day-for-night, and all it did was turn the campfire blue. I can't even imagine what they were thinking.

What about lighting the house from the back , get a rim and in post modify the sky ??

yessssss lewis posted