- Timing plays a huge role in getting the right natural lighting, good times to shoot quick night time scenes are during Blue Hour, the hour after the sun goes down or comes up and the sky still looks colorful. And during Magic Hour is the hour leading to the sunset or just after sunrise, for those warm and fuzzy scenes you need to perfect. I didn't know those terms existed but I think they're really beautiful times of the day, nice for them to have a name
- The right camera and camera lens is a hugely huge deal because whether you're filming more night scenes or day scenes should help you decide on the better camera. For example, if the movie is mostly outdoors and day time then you'll need a camera with dynamic range that helps with any lighting that you would have to edit with a different camera. Same for lenses, for exterior scenes it would be helpful to use a wide lens for a landscape.
- Make sure your actors and everyone else are prepared because that perfect natural lighting thats going on might go away in a couple hours and you'll have to wait another day to reshoot.
thoughts:
- I love this article with a passion because using these types of tricks for filming movies are clever and inexpensive. Just like the other article with using 'forced perspective', it would make me feel more accomplished and proud I used these tricks instead of going all out with lights and CG and whatnot
- Just like other types of tricks for movie making, its a lot of work to perfect the right scene when you do natural lighting, you can't be lazy about it. You have to pay attention to your time especially and requires a lot of planning ahead to so you can get used to your surroundings. But in the end it paid off
my question is, how far would a director go when using natural lighting? would they make trip to the other side of the world just to use that setting
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