Learning Hopper Lighting Techniques - Lighting Mastery

Lighting Mastery — 003

Hello, today this is the third video in our Lighting Mastery series in which me and Cinematographer Erick Alcaraz will explore the different styles of lighting throughout art. In this video we will explore the diffused and color blocked lighting from Edward Hopper.

We will use Cinema 4D and Corona Renderer to set up the lighting on a scene. We start with a recreation of Edward Hopper's famous artwork Nighthawks. From a dark environment we start by lighting the street with a grid of 150W LED panels shining through a large diffusion frame. After getting the exterior exposure right we start lighting the interior with a Area light and several LED tubes.

Most of the lighting techniques is based on adding flags to control the spill of our soft and diffused lighting.

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