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Gregory Crewdson lighting setuptopic posted Thu, December 31, 2009 - 4:17 PM by Lars

This isnt strobe, its artificial studio light, but constant source lighting.

Lighting diagram:

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Bigger:

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Unfortunately I dont have a high res of the actual finished image. These things are massive prints, 8 feet wide. Google image search Gregory Crewdson and set the image size to large and pixel peep some of them. The detail is amazing.

He took 40-50 exposures from 1 to 15 seconds, at apertures ranging from f/22 to f/45. He also varied his focal points throughout the exposure process. In post-production, he viewed digital proof prints of the different frames and selected the sharpest elements in each shot, as well as the best exposures for the lighting. A digital artist then composited these elements together into a single image.

Anyway, down to brass tacks. Here is the lighting breakdown from the diagram:

LIGHT #1

Source: Mole Richardson Tweenie (650-watt fresnel) tungsten source with full CTB gel plus 1/4 CTB gel, bounced into a white foamcore panel inside of the house next door (exterior house flat is visible through kitchen set window). Foamcore panel is visible in shot, as a bluish-white square in the bottom half of the window.

Purpose: To create low-level bluish cast in window of exterior house flat visible through kitchen set window

LIGHT #2

Source: LTM Pepper (200-watt fresnel) with full CTS gel

Purpose: Simulating table lamp/backlighting window

LIGHT #3

Source: LTM Pepper 200-watt fresnel with full CTS gel, backlighting window

Purpose: Simulating table lamp in window of house next door, visible through kitchen window

LIGHT #4

Source: Mole Richardson Tweenie (650-watt fresnel) tungsten source with full CTB gel plus 1/4 CTB gel, bounced into white foamcore panel inside of house next door (exterior house flat is visible through kitchen set window) Foamcore is visible in lower half of window.

Purpose: To create a bright source in the lower half of the window

LIGHT #5

Source: Mole Richardson Mighty (2K open-face focusable spot) tungsten source with full and 1/2 CTB gels, bouncing into a 4 x 4-foot sheet of bead board lying flat on floor

Purpose: Front fill for exterior of house next door (visible through kitchen window)

LIGHT #6

Source: Mole Richardson Tweenie (650-watt fresnel) tungsten source with 1/4 CTB gel

Purpose: To simulate exterior lighting fixtures raking the exterior of the house next door (visible through kitchen window)

LIGHT #7

Source: Mole Richardson Mighty (Open face focusing 2K) bouncing on a floor level 4 x 4-foot Bead Board. Full + Half CTB

Purpose: Front Fill for background (BG) House Flat

LIGHT #8

Source: Mole Richardson Mighty (Open face focusing 2K) bouncing on a floor level 4 x 4-foot Bead Board. Full + Half CTB

Purpose: Front Fill for background (BG) House Flat

LIGHT #9

Source: Mole Richardson Midget (200-watt fresnel) tungsten source with Lee #159 (No Color Straw) gel

Purpose: To simulate exterior lighting fixtures backlighting kitchen window

LIGHT #10

Source: Mole Richardson Midget (200-watt fresnel) tungsten source with Lee #159 gel (no-color straw)

Purpose: To simulate an exterior lighting fixture backlighting kitchen door window

LIGHT #11

Source: Mole Richardson 1K MolePAR MFL (medium flood lens) tungsten source with 1/4 CTB gel plus Lee #159 gel, bouncing into overhead 4 x 8-foot sheet of beadboard

Purpose: To create soft light motivated by hanging kitchen practical lamp

LIGHT # 12

Source: Mole Richardson 1K MolePAR MFL (medium flood lens) tungsten source with 1/4 CTB gel plus Lee #159 gel, bouncing into overhead 4 x 8-foot sheet of beadboard

Purpose: To create soft top light, motivated by hanging kitchen practical lamp

LIGHT #13

Source: Mole Richardson Baby (1K fresnel) tungsten source with 1/2 CTB gel plus Bastard Amber gel plus Lee # 250 (half white diffusion) gel

Purpose: To create light emanating from the laundry room on camera left side of kitchen

LIGHT #14

Source: 100-watt A19 bulb on dimmer

Purpose: To create light emanating from practical (hanging light) in kitchen

LIGHT #15

Source: Mole Richardson 9-Lite MaxiBrute (9 MFL PAR lamps) with 1/4 CTG gel plus Lee #159 gel, hung above kitchen and bounced into a rigged 4 x 8-foot sheet of beadboard rigged about 12 feet off the floor in area just camera right of kitchen hanging practical

Purpose: To create top soft light motivated by hanging kitchen practical

LIGHT #16

Source: Mole Richardson Baby (10K fresnel) with 1/2 CTB gel plus Lee #159 gel

Purpose: To illuminate wooden buffet to camera right of boy

LIGHT #17

Source: Six Mole Richardson 1K Nook Lights with 1/2 CTB gel plus Lee #159 gel in 6 x 8-foot softbox crafted out of black-on-black foamcore with 1000H diffusion, suspended 12 feet above set floor and angled down at kitchen

Purpose: To simulate soft top-light motivated by hanging practical (chandelier)

LIGHT #18

Source: Source Four 26-degree, 750-watt ellipsoidal tungsten source with 1/4 CTB gel plus Lee #159 gel

Purpose: Set highlights and slashes on or around china cabinet on camera left

LIGHT #19

Source: Source Four 26-degree, 750-watt ellipsoidal tungsten source with 1/4 CTB gel plus Lee #159 gel

Purpose: Set highlights and slashes on or around china cabinet on camera left LIGHT #20

Source: Source Four 26-degree, 750-watt ellipsoidal tungsten source with 1/4 CTB gel plus Lee #159 gel

Purpose: Set highlights and slashes on or around china cabinet on camera left

LIGHT #21

Source: Source Four 26-degree, 750-watt ellipsoidal tungsten source with 1/4 CTB gel plus Lee #159 gel

Purpose: Set highlights and slashes on or around china cabinet on camera left

LIGHT #22

Source: Five 60-watt frosted flame-tip candelabra lamps on dimmer

Purpose: Bulbs for dining room practical (chandelier in shot)

LIGHT #23

Source: Six #2 blue photofloods (500-watt A bulbs) with 3/4 CTB gel and Lee #159 gel in softbox, suspended 10 feet above set with four 1/4-inch hemp tie-lines (just above the top of the frame), angled down at a 60-degree angle

Purpose: Top front soft light source motivated by hanging practical (chandelier)

LIGHT #24

Source: Mole Richardson Baby 1K fresnel tungsten source with 3/4 CTB gel bounced into a 2 x 2-foot Rosco Cinegel Roscoflex SS (supersoft) silver Mylar® reflector, with single layer of Lee 1/16 Hampshire Frost diffusion attached to reflector to graduate rapid light fall-off from Mylar® material

Purpose: Directional bounce fill on chairs around dining room table on camera left

LIGHT #25

Source: Source Four 19-degree, 750-watt ellipsoidal tungsten source with 1/2 CTB gel plus Lee #159 gel

Purpose: Highlighting roast beef

LIGHT #26

Source: Mole Richardson Baby 1K fresnel with 3/4 CTB gel bounced into a 2 x 2-foot Rosco Cinegel Roscoflex SS (supersoft) silver Mylar® reflector

Purpose: Directional fill on boy, from camera right

LIGHT #27

Source: Source Four 19-degree, 750-watt ellipsoidal with 3/4 CTB gel

Purpose: Frame left foreground portal fill

LIGHT #28

Source: Source Four 50-degree, 750-watt ellipsoidal with full CTB gel

Purpose: Frame left foreground portal fill

LIGHT #29

Source: Source Four 50-degree, 750-watt ellipsoidal with 3/4 CTB gel

Purpose: Frame left vertical slash of light used as a framing streak for composition

LIGHT #30

Source: Source Four 36-degree, 750-watt ellipsoidal with full CTB gel

Purpose: Frame left vertical slash of light used to highlight the portal molding

LIGHT #31

Source: Source Four 36-degree, 750-watt ellipsoidal with 1/4 CTB gel

Purpose: Frame right foreground portal vertical slash

LIGHT #32

Source: Mole Richardson Baby 10K (10,000-watt fresnel) with 3/4 CTB gel and medium quartz Chimera Plus softbox with 1/4 grid cloth diffusion panel and 40-degree “egg-crate” soft fabric grid

Purpose: Wrapping fill light for mother and controlled fill on foreground portal

Degrees of intervention - Questioning the veracity of an image

Dorotea Lange, 'Migrant Mother'

for Farm Security Administration 1936

Ed Van der Elsken

Sally Mann

Larry Sultan

Tina Barney

Nan Goldin

Cindy Sherman

Jeff Wall

Thomas Demand

Paul Shambroom

Tom Hunter

Gregory Crewdson

The Staged Image/PhotoTableau

John Heartfield

Tableau(x)

Definition:

'a group of models or motionless figures representing a scene from a story or from history; a tableau vivant'.

- Oxford Dictionary

Julia Margaret-Cameron

Painting Tableaux

'Idylls of the King' (Tennyson) 1875

Théodore Géricault 'The Raft of The Medusa' 1818 - 1819

Henry Peach-Robinson

The Raft of the Medusa (French: Le Radeau de la Méduse) is an oil painting of 1818–1819 by the French Romantic painter and lithographer Théodore Géricault (1791–1824). Completed when the artist was just 27, the work has become an icon of French Romanticism. At 491 cm × 716 cm (193.3 in × 282.3 in),[1] it is an over-life-size painting that depicts a moment from the aftermath of the wreck of the French naval frigate Méduse, which ran aground off the coast of today's Mauritania on July 5, 1816. At least 147 people were set adrift on a hurriedly constructed raft; all but 15 died in the 13 days before their rescue, and those who survived endured starvation, dehydration, cannibalism and madness. The event became an international scandal, in part because its cause was widely attributed to the incompetence of the French captain acting under the authority of the recently restored French monarchy. (Wikipedia)

http://www.rleggat.com/photohistory/history/rejlande.htm

Oscar Rejlander 'The Two Ways of life' (1857)

Wendy Mc Murdo

Philip Lorca di Corcia

'Fading Away' 1858

Tableau - use in Fashion

http://iconolo.gy/archive/hollywood-portfolio/298

Hannah Starkey

Storm Thorgerson

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