#idafilm

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“The shots on Ida offer a rich background, with variegated dark and bright variations, and the book light on Ida is ravishing, especially when the book light is brought in close to her for the close-up.Lukasz sums up the goal of this complex lighting set-up simply: “we wanted to make Ida look beautiful.”

This scene is a good example of an image that offers a full range of gray tones from black to white, an important lesson for cinematography in color as well as black and white.”

Ida (2013)

Cinematographers: Ryszard Lenczewski

& Lukasz Zal

Gaffer: Marek Wojtaszewski

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“Lukasz keyed the dining room interior with 2 Octodomes above the tables, to convey flat, institutional top lighting, the kind that could be provided by ceiling fluorescents. These 2 soft top light sources bounce off the white table cloth, creating a simple and elegant fill on the faces from below...The challenge of lighting this scene is not to make it beautiful, but to present ordinary, institutional top lighting, and still add some depth and accentsto avoid a completely flat image.”

Ida (2013)

Cinematographers: Ryszard Lenczewski

& Lukasz Zal

Gaffer: Marek Wojtaszewski

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“For the close-up shot of Ida’s face, Lukasz moved the Kino Flo and its diffusion close to the left edge of frame, and placed a spot of light on the wall behind her to motivate the fill as a reflection of sunlight from the window. The resulting close-up is a sophisticated balance of brightness from the right and a subtle rim of fill from the left.”

Ida (2013)

Cinematographers: Ryszard Lenczewski 

& Lukasz Zal

Gaffer: Marek Wojtaszewski