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Shooting in Tirol with the young spanish DoP Darios Ferrer had a lot of great opportunities 1. very talented DoP 2.wonderful mountains, wonderful light 3. my former professor and international acclaimed Dop Christian Berger lives there. He (together with the Bartenbach Licht Labor) has invented a new lighting system that is based on bounced light. He was kind enough to borrow us his private set (the system itself is still in the final test phase) for the entire shoot. I wrote a (quite commercial) text, summing up my experiences with the system. please click here for the text. The system is amazing, there is hardly anything to write - just when you look at the stills and set photos keep in mind that all of our light consisted of 1(!) 1,2 k parallel beam. The reflectors in combination with the parallel beam punches out such an amount of light; its like a 6k par! But the quality of the light is just amazing, beautiful and soft. The scene which plays in the rather small house (there would have been really little space for the "normal" lights) we put the parallel beam on the floor, downstairs, caught the light with some very hard reflectors and then bounced them over some softer ones to fill the room with wonderful light; as you will be able to see, we were able to expose for the outside and keep the light level inside the room on the right exposure! With one 1,2k bouncing over 4 reflectors! the system even worked on locations with big windows and lots of sky in the frame! I hope I will be able to use this system again, very soon! Beautiful light - little work, fast setup! Here are the pictures.
If you are intrested in further information about the Cine Reflector System, please contact Christian Berger.