I filmed a commercial the other day for a business, and during the shoot, everything seemed to go well. However, once I got into post, I realized that I had not noticed a light in the background of my shot; well, I had noticed it, but it wasn't that powerful looking through the viewfinder (I didn't have a field monitor, as this was a small scale shoot).

However, on my screen and monitor out, it's rather bright.





Aside from going in and trying to edit each individual frame of a 5 second shot, which I am prepared to do, can anyone think of anything else to do to lessen the intensity of the light (aside from that light in the background, I was actually quite pleased with the rest of the shot)? I shot multiple takes, but in every one, that little bugger is present in the background. And, it's a moving shot, which makes it a little harder to simply superimpose a screen over the light.



The weapons I have at my disposal are Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5, and Photoshop 7.0.

Lighting has never been my strongest point, but I still can't believe that one slipped by on me.


/powerwalks into a wall.

:edit: I dunno if webshots allows hotlinking...if the pictures aren't showing up for you, but you think you can help out, I will be more than happy to email them to you.

Ouch. To be honest, that's going to be tough to get rid of. I've done a lot of post manipulation, and removed wires, booms, and lights many times, but this one looks tricky. I'm afraid it may not be doable. It's just so bright, in such a busy and central part of the scene, and the lens flare goes in front of your actress.

if it's only a five second shot, 150 frames, that really wouldn't take that long to do by hand. Just export/import into photoshop as a film strip and air brush or rubber stamp the light out.

Diaster averted; I managed to find a take where it wasn't too bad, and managed to do some creative editing. They're pretty happy with it.

And I've never done much with filmstrips in Photoshop in all the years I've been using the programs; I think I may have to tinker around with that sometime. I've always just exported individual frames, which can be a real pain in the buttocks.