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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:
alecsothblog.files.wordpress.com/2...pg
Bigger:
farm2.static.flickr.com/1205/8...3_o.gif
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
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
'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