lighting a moving target

[Kim Welch]

When you are lighting a scene in wich the person or object is moving through a room, do you light the path and position the person or object in progressive points? does the lighting in some cases change as the person moves?

Kim

 

[gwyddion]

Lighting a moving object.

Lighting a moving object.

I would think that if you were lighting a person moving about a room, you'd just light the room and let the shadows fall where they may. If you were doing something a bit more dramatic and using a spot, then you'd want to follow the performer. Even then it would be tricky depending on what was in the background and how it reflected light. If you were moving from one room to another, you could change lighting as you wanted and just shoot multiple takes.

 

[temerson]

If you are worried about shadows, bounce a soft fill onto the background to eliminate those dark shadows. Two zips crossing the middle axis of the scene/set. Even better, to diffuse the light even more, is to bounce the fill lights off of a feflector onto the background, so that the light becomes more natural. Any kind of good fill light (like a zip, my personal favorite) will do.