First of all I would like to apologize for the lenguaje mistakes I can make.
I´ve just shot my second commertial as a DP with a sdw 750 P, mainly exteriors under a cloudy day, clipped white sky and even if the light was uniform and didn´t change to much during the day, I had the problem of the low contrasty image, flat surfaces and desaturated colors. I used a couple of arrisuns 1250W (well, low budget commertial of course) and tried to increase the contrast with a backlight on the characters, put some hot lights on the background (with a mirror) and increase the light on faces with a par used as a fill light over the camera (also as an eyelight). I used also a white promist that gave a washed out image which I think was ok because it gave us more to play with in postpro (I talk about the contrast).
Nevertheless I think the image wasn´t attractive enough for a happy happy commertial as it was supposed to be, mainly becouse of the white sky (I couldn´t avoid it, we shot in parks) but also becouse I think the fill light on faces wasn´t enough light to separate the actors from the background, but I was afraid of giving to much light and have an unnatural effect... I´m not really sure if I should have played with the wardrobe (it was a little monochrome) or have asked for bigger lights... The fact is that in post the result was good enough but I noticed a lot of variety in the skin tones (cold and bluish in some scenes, and yellowish or pinky in others)
I´ve just shot my second commertial as a DP with a sdw 750 P, mainly exteriors under a cloudy day, clipped white sky and even if the light was uniform and didn´t change to much during the day, I had the problem of the low contrasty image, flat surfaces and desaturated colors. I used a couple of arrisuns 1250W (well, low budget commertial of course) and tried to increase the contrast with a backlight on the characters, put some hot lights on the background (with a mirror) and increase the light on faces with a par used as a fill light over the camera (also as an eyelight). I used also a white promist that gave a washed out image which I think was ok because it gave us more to play with in postpro (I talk about the contrast).
Nevertheless I think the image wasn´t attractive enough for a happy happy commertial as it was supposed to be, mainly becouse of the white sky (I couldn´t avoid it, we shot in parks) but also becouse I think the fill light on faces wasn´t enough light to separate the actors from the background, but I was afraid of giving to much light and have an unnatural effect... I´m not really sure if I should have played with the wardrobe (it was a little monochrome) or have asked for bigger lights... The fact is that in post the result was good enough but I noticed a lot of variety in the skin tones (cold and bluish in some scenes, and yellowish or pinky in others)
