If yesterday afternoon‘s lesson about light-chasing wasn’t enough, today’s shooting certainly drove the point home. You want two people talking outside? Shoot the two of them both in frame (a ‘two-shot’). Then shoot each one individually (‘singles’). Then when you’re in a dark room with just you and a monitor and your awfully precious raw footage, you – and your end audience – are going to expect all those two-shots and singles to be lit exactly the same. Even though you shot them over a four-hour period.
A lot can happen in the Auckland sky in four hours when the forecast is for clouds clearing with possible light showers. Heaps. Bucket loads.
