Cinematography-Theory-And-Practice

Figure 7.38. An example of garagedoor light. The subject is just insidethe door, which puts her in openshade. The sun is still hitting theground, buildings and the rest ofthe background behind the camera,which results in a soft bounce on theactress.in lighting, then you don’t need to be reading books like this one. It istrue that there are more and more cases where you can shoot purelywith available light — that is, where you can get visually interesting,even beautiful scenes only with the light that already exists at a location.However, this is not a high def or even a video phenomenon,the same is true with film stock, which has improved vastly in thelast few years. For example, look at the movie Lost in Translation, inwhich nearly all of the night exteriors of Tokyo were shot purelywith available light.cinematography128