Anybody got any tips on lighting night scenes? To wit, an airplane
flying at night. On a combat mission, no less, with some discernable
flak bursts, a far below height field for ground zero, etc. I've
got the modeling about done on the plane, and now it's time to get
serious...but I've never done a night scene, nor for that matter
am I that good at lighting.

Thanks in advance.
Happy tracing.

Regards,

Wayne Gordon
<way### [at] mailphoenixnet>

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Hello everybody,

Wayne Gordon wrote:

> Anybody got any tips on lighting night scenes? To wit, an airplane
> flying at night. On a combat mission, no less, with some discernable
> flak bursts, a far below height field for ground zero, etc. I've
> got the modeling about done on the plane, and now it's time to get
> serious...but I've never done a night scene, nor for that matter
> am I that good at lighting.

What an interesting question !

Although I'm not very familiar with night lighting, I would like to
point out the way Hollywood does it.
Did you notice that, in movies, night scenes are not totally dark
(hopefully !), but rather lighted by BLUE light projectors ?
Furthermore, they are sometimes directed, not straight down to the faces
of the actors, but to a part of the scene that will then reflect this
light onto the faces, bodies, and so on... giving them "dark" colours,
if I may say so.

> Thanks in advance.
> Happy tracing.

The same to you !

I am looking forward to seeing your scenes.

GP
 gui### [at] csicom

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Guillaume Pottier <gui### [at] csicom> writes:

> Hello everybody,
> 
> Did you notice that, in movies, night scenes are not totally dark
> (hopefully !), but rather lighted by BLUE light projectors ?
> Furthermore, they are sometimes directed, not straight down to the faces
> of the actors, but to a part of the scene that will then reflect this
> light onto the faces, bodies, and so on... giving them "dark" colours,
> if I may say so.

  I once wanted to experiment with lighting ambances, such as the normal
daylight, some sunset time of the day, and some night ambiance. So I took
the same scene and changed only the light sources and the global ambient
colour setting.  You can have a look at the result (I *know* it's poor, it
was just some kind of experimentation) on one of my web pages, this one is
at <URL:http://www.mygale.org/~roland/pov/>.  If need be I can post the
sources here, but not before tomorrow.

  Basically, I not only changed the light sources to be more blue, but I
hugely increased the ambient values of the objects and tinted this ambient
blue.  The light sources have then been decreased in intensity to soften
the shadows and compensate for the high ambient.  Well, that's what I
recall of it, anyway...

  HAve fun,

Roland.

P.S : By the way... could you stop posting HTML please? Thanks...
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