What if you want to shoot a scene outside and you want a shot to be really wide? So wide, the reflectors cannot reflect towards the actor, cause the actor is too far away in the shot? You can overexpose so it's not too dark, but then the sky is blown out, if you do that. Here's a scene from Skyfall, where the camera over exposes in some shots, but then is not, in other shots, even though it's all in the sun:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13DQS1AHdXg
I showed this to a DP and he said the cinematographer screwed up, and that he should have properly exposed everything, even if it meant the actors would not be so bright.
At the same time, here is a scene with no overexposing it seems, and at 4:06 into the video is a shot of the actors far away:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6x401CGAl8
But what do you think, is that the way to go?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13DQS1AHdXg
I showed this to a DP and he said the cinematographer screwed up, and that he should have properly exposed everything, even if it meant the actors would not be so bright.
At the same time, here is a scene with no overexposing it seems, and at 4:06 into the video is a shot of the actors far away:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6x401CGAl8
But what do you think, is that the way to go?
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