Alex Konveski
New member
Hello,
I have been going through the forum and found a lot of advice dealing with night exposures and making moonlight look right. I am shooting my first scene on film that is motivated solely by moonlight and am a little worried about making it come out right.
If I am coming from the side and underexpose the key a stop and let the other half of the face go black wont I end up with a very dark image as there is nothing in frame that is at a key exposure? It makes sense though since moonlight should look dim and I'd like to have a image that a person can see but realizes its night. Then I worry on the other hand that 1 under isn't enough and will look too bright.
My second exposure issue is what do you do about neon signs? If your shooting with natural light somewhere and neon signs are on wont they blow out? I was outside with my meter at night on a street and found a 1,000 my stops would be around a 1.4 split but spotting a neon sign I got a 11 so it seems like that would be gone on film. If I was to grab a insert of the sign I guess a 11 would be fine but if I was showing the street and such 11 would greatly underexpose everything.
I have been going through the forum and found a lot of advice dealing with night exposures and making moonlight look right. I am shooting my first scene on film that is motivated solely by moonlight and am a little worried about making it come out right.
If I am coming from the side and underexpose the key a stop and let the other half of the face go black wont I end up with a very dark image as there is nothing in frame that is at a key exposure? It makes sense though since moonlight should look dim and I'd like to have a image that a person can see but realizes its night. Then I worry on the other hand that 1 under isn't enough and will look too bright.
My second exposure issue is what do you do about neon signs? If your shooting with natural light somewhere and neon signs are on wont they blow out? I was outside with my meter at night on a street and found a 1,000 my stops would be around a 1.4 split but spotting a neon sign I got a 11 so it seems like that would be gone on film. If I was to grab a insert of the sign I guess a 11 would be fine but if I was showing the street and such 11 would greatly underexpose everything.