Vihan,
The first low (&no) budget short film event in Iran,
Presents.
In association with
Khanesh institute
and 35mm studio
Natural Lighting Cinematography
Chapter 1
Paying attention to the quality of light in everyday life
Those who become photographers, cameramen, in one word, who enter visual spaces
in their everyday life,even now that we are
sitting down here,
uncinsiously im studying the lights on the faces
for example I say,look where Sa'ed sits light is exposed here
or we have backlight where Amir sits over there
how these differ
I say to me aha, well, there is a light there a light here
my eyes are seeing this and that
and im storing them in my mind
basically filming and photography need an unconsious,continuous and uninteruped study
i mean you should all the time experience what daily life gives to you
through all of these you would be able to achieve a good light designing later
for example think you go to a café
you feel the person sitting beside you or the person sitting there is getting a very good light
you must immediately feel "why?"
why do you think, that is a good lighting
Whats the relation between the light sources around you and the subjects near you or the ones further
this saves sth in your mind that, e.g. now im gonna take a high contrast shot
I ask myself how was it that day
the light source was close to subject
we had a backlight for example
all these uncontious and continuous studies
help us achieve a sight
it's also true about the daylight
l suppose
its much more instructive
thats because daylight exists all the time, you’re always in touch with it.
All people, all subjects you see are under the light and there is a relation between them
some times the sun shines straight on their
face
Some times shines on their back
some times brightens half their faces
Even some times it happens, I'm standing talking to some one
then It comes to my mind that the light for example is not good in here
so I turn, change my place
really
they wonder, "what are you doing?"
i search with my eyes, and move my own head
i make my own compesition
that line matches that background line
I close one of my eyes, then, I think there’s sth really happening back there
then I tilt my head so that his head doesn't cross the windows frame
I remember I had a thin framed glass with rectangle shape
I made compositions through its frame
some guy was sitting in front of me, I stood like this looked at him like this
I wanted make a composition with the rectangle so that I put him in the right place
i didnt try to do it on purpose
It's more unconsious
I was so interested that I just did it everyday
I still do it
just before right now i turned my eyes saw a light back there
it's made a very good back ground for someone sit there
come and see, it's interesting
you see, there is a very good light spot behind him
I say to me oh how wonderful is that
if one day I wanted to have a shot like this, I could put a lamp there, like here
in my opinion
continuous study in the world around could be a very source of inspiration
If you really want this,
do this study all the time
after a while it becoms your unconsiousness
I have no idea if I have started it consciously or not
what matters is that you do it anyway
understanding this in real world
the world we have no role in its creation
could really help much
Vihan,
the first low (&no) budget short film event in Iran.
