That's pretty good. Pretty close. Loved seeing that you actually built the background. I think you could painted very thin brown lines on the white 2x4s to add more texture to the "door window" frame. Your's just looks white and flat compared to the actual frame. And for more specific lighting tweaks you could have made. You should have used neg. fill closer to your body. A floppy or a few flags to shape the shadows on the face, chest and arms. Also, you probably should've had a second smaller source on the other shoulder side to get the rim lighting inside of using the power window to illuminate the right shoulder. Just brightening with a power window doesn't match the actual frame's lighting for the right shoulder due to the specular highlights on the rim of his skin. Also by illuminating that spot, the black square behind you to the right felt more fake because now it was more of a gray gradient instead of just black for that one square in the window. But those are nit-picky. With what you had and made due to with, it turned out great!
Actually I realized. You should've pushed your light tube and stand like a third of a foot. That would created deeper shadows on the face, shirt, and arms as well as illuminated both shoulders better as rim lighting. However, the background would have been more illuminated and you would have to use more gaff tape to skirt the tube from lighting the wall. Also, I think the actually shot was graded with a little more blue in the green lighting. You got really, really close though. Just very small tweaks and I think you could have nailed it even closer.
This was soo good! I loved everything about this!!
Ayyyy appreciate it bro
That's pretty good. Pretty close. Loved seeing that you actually built the background. I think you could painted very thin brown lines on the white 2x4s to add more texture to the "door window" frame. Your's just looks white and flat compared to the actual frame.
And for more specific lighting tweaks you could have made. You should have used neg. fill closer to your body. A floppy or a few flags to shape the shadows on the face, chest and arms. Also, you probably should've had a second smaller source on the other shoulder side to get the rim lighting inside of using the power window to illuminate the right shoulder. Just brightening with a power window doesn't match the actual frame's lighting for the right shoulder due to the specular highlights on the rim of his skin. Also by illuminating that spot, the black square behind you to the right felt more fake because now it was more of a gray gradient instead of just black for that one square in the window.
But those are nit-picky. With what you had and made due to with, it turned out great!
Actually I realized. You should've pushed your light tube and stand like a third of a foot. That would created deeper shadows on the face, shirt, and arms as well as illuminated both shoulders better as rim lighting. However, the background would have been more illuminated and you would have to use more gaff tape to skirt the tube from lighting the wall. Also, I think the actually shot was graded with a little more blue in the green lighting. You got really, really close though.
Just very small tweaks and I think you could have nailed it even closer.
*third of a foot behind you.
Wowwwwww!
Thank you 🙏🏻