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Morning sunlight in the room. Help to create the mood.

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Hello Redusers! I just cant get the idea how to create sunny morning mood in the studio? Any ideas? Can very powerful lights to help me fill the room?
I mean something like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAsSoW7oweY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5waA7_whOQ
It looks like a daylight. But I think this is a studio shots. I just need the right way to understanding this method. Just general idea how to create this.
Thanks!
 
One of the most important things you can do is to look -- really look -- at what natural sunlight does in a room.

In natural light, bounce is the second-most-important factor (after the sun). Typically, a room is smaller than a studio, so the light comes in the window and reflects off walls that are fairly close by. There is no open wall, so the light is returned from everywhere -- including the floor and ceiling. The sunlight is several stops hotter than exposure, but the bounce is everywhere and quite bright as well, so you have to imitate that somehow -- either with bounce or with large, soft fill sources.

One of the most under-used bounce sources is the floor. Sunlight almost always hits the floor hard, and bounces up from there, and the floor is almost always warm in color (wood, tile, carpets, etc) so you get a warm under light diffused through the room. Likewise, the ceiling plays a strong part. It is commonly white, so its bounce provides a soft "skylight" fill everywhere in the room.

Many years ago I worked with a wonderful DP, Austin de Besche. He was lighting a set for me, and blasted an HMI into the floor of the set to re-create that warm under-glow that sunlight bouncing off the floor gives. It completely changed the look of the scene, and completely changed my understanding of studio lighting.
 
David, that was incredibly insightful. Thank you for that.

D Fuller said:
One of the most important things you can do is to look -- really look -- at what natural sunlight does in a room.

In natural light, bounce is the second-most-important factor (after the sun). Typically, a room is smaller than a studio, so the light comes in the window and reflects off walls that are fairly close by. There is no open wall, so the light is returned from everywhere -- including the floor and ceiling. The sunlight is several stops hotter than exposure, but the bounce is everywhere and quite bright as well, so you have to imitate that somehow -- either with bounce or with large, soft fill sources.

One of the most under-used bounce sources is the floor. Sunlight almost always hits the floor hard, and bounces up from there, and the floor is almost always warm in color (wood, tile, carpets, etc) so you get a warm under light diffused through the room. Likewise, the ceiling plays a strong part. It is commonly white, so its bounce provides a soft "skylight" fill everywhere in the room.

Many years ago I worked with a wonderful DP, Austin de Besche. He was lighting a set for me, and blasted an HMI into the floor of the set to re-create that warm under-glow that sunlight bouncing off the floor gives. It completely changed the look of the scene, and completely changed my understanding of studio lighting.
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Hello Mr. David Fuller! Your answer is awesome and pretty enough for me. I do not like copying of light sets and other ready-to-use stuff. I prefere to do it myself. That way expirience grows much faster and I can use my own mind and create my own vision. Thanks a lot!
 
I love bouncing light. Here is something I'm working on that needed some cheery light. In both cases I have an 800W Joker in a Chinese lantern pointed at the ceiling. In the kitchen I also have a Diva 400 with diffusion to the camera right for a little kicker to shape his face.

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Sunlight discussion aside: Holy moly, Bob, those stills turned out amazingly well!

To everyone else, they were taken with RPPs 18 and 50. Not sure about the 50, but I'm pretty sure the 18 was wide open.
 
Mike P. said:
Sunlight discussion aside: Holy moly, Bob, those stills turned out amazingly well!

To everyone else, they were taken with RPPs 18 and 50. Not sure about the 50, but I'm pretty sure the 18 was wide open.
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I don't think we were shooting wide open. I believe it was between F4-F5.6
 
Yep! Thats it! The Daylight! Bob, I didnt see any windows but light looks like a daylight through the window. What about real windows? What was color temperature of your lights? Balanced to daylight? Thanks! Colors of your pics are awesome as usually! Great stuff!
 
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