vilters opened this issue on Oct 28, 2003 ยท 12 posts
hauksdottir posted Tue, 28 October 2003 at 9:19 PM
Dr Geep, I'm going to disagree with you as to the source of the outdoor light. What you see as building shadow on the grass, I see as wet ground from where they have recently washed the back porch... the hose and cleaning tools are still there! Vilters, The nature of the lighting tells me that it is coming from far left, about 10:00, with a lot of scatter. Because the inside of the rear arch is lit, I'd put the predominant light slightly behand her as well. The seond thing is to match the color of the light. Traveler at RDNA has several outdoor sets. Anton did an outdoor set, too. There are HDRI outdoor sets to try. Here one should stay with cool wintry colors and avoid the sunny peach sets. I would also fix the ambient lighting on her skin. Make it a blueish mauve instead of black. She isn't standing in a dungeon corridor waiting to be shot, and there is nothing to reflect black back at her... so why use it as the ambient? When you change the ambient on the skin, do it everywhere! If you want to get real fancy, while you are changing the ambient, make the highlight a dark chocolate and set it at 100% or so on the skin. Fingernails and other shiny places can have a smaller highlight. HTH, Carolly